Disney Director Calls Industry's Dismissal of 2D Animation "Disappointing" [Exclusive]

Kevin Lima, the director behind A Goofy Movie, Tarzan, and Enchanted, thinks the industry's lack of hand-drawn 2D animated movies is "disappointing." ...

The Chainsaw Man movie mixes hand-drawn animation with CGI — just like Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle

The Chainsaw Man panelists also explained how using 3D CG models helps maintain positions and gives background objects ...
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A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Real-Time Articulated Surgical Instrument 3-D Pose Reconstruction

Abstract: 3D pose reconstruction of surgical instruments from images stands as a critical component in environment perception within robotic minimally invasive surgery (RMIS). The current deep ...

Watch My Skeleton Dance for Science

Lead image: Still from 1929's The Skeleton Dance, the first Silly Symphony from Walt Disney The former Republican Senate ...
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ProxyCap: Real-Time Monocular Full-Body Capture in World Space via Human-Centric Proxy-to-Motion Learning

Abstract: Learning-based approaches to monocular motion capture have recently shown promising results by learning to regress in a data-driven manner. However, due to the challenges in data collection ...