If you want the very best, then Autodesk Maya stands out as the go-to app for the animation industry. For professional ...

While director John Kahrs doesn’t go into specifics, it would be akin to modeling your 3D scene, assigning 2D art as image textures, and animating the 3D, thereby empowering the 3D as the engine to ...

Turning a 2D shape into a 3D object is now possible with an application like Paint 3D. In this article, we explain how to turn 2D objects into 3D objects using Paint 3D. Follow all the steps in ...

Yesterday's Adobe MAX 2024 presentation of Project Turntable for Illustrator has set the design world abuzz with excitement. If the tool works as demoed, it will change how artists work with 2D ...

3D "joystick" for animation artists takes shape By Colin Jeffrey June 28, 2014 3D animation software joystick "input puppet" (Image: Interactive Geometry Lab / ETH Zurich) View 1 Images ...

One of the works spotlighted is Mesh R-CNN, a method that’s able to predict three-dimensional shapes from images of cluttered and occluded objects. Above: Mesh R-CNN converts 2D objects to 3D ...

Programming thin sheets, or 2D materials, to morph into 3D shapes can enable new technologies for soft robotics, deployable systems, and biomimetic manufacturing, which produces synthetic products ...