When vaudeville impresario Martin Beck "discovered" a struggling Harry Houdini in 1899, it was Houdini's ability to escape from handcuffs which caught his attention. Although Houdini was hardly ...

Maxon Redshift 2025 is the latest iteration of Maxon’s biased renderer and continues to be up there with the best rendering ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.

Houdini, created by popular 3D animation and visual effects company SideFX, is a sophisticated program for creating complex and realistic images and videos using procedural modeling and animation.

From traditional hand-drawn 2D animation to photorealistic CGI ... The team created AI spiders in Houdini. "They would go into these nooks and crannies and start weaving webs," Sisson told us. "We’d ...

The Exotikon Super Shock Show on Thursday will feature a performance by world-class magician Rob Zabrecky, spooky-themed live ...

What is Animation and Visual Effects? Drexel’s Animation & Visual Effects major is a studio-based program that trains the next generation of creatives in the art of storytelling through 3D computer ...

The creation of a single minute of footage for an animated TV show or movie can take weeks or even months of collaborative work by artists, directors, producers and technicians. Animation requires ...

The Animation Is Film Festival has announced its 2024 lineup, with films including “The Colors Within,” “The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” and “Memoir of a Snail.” ...

An elusive freshwater crocodile has been deemed no threat to safety and will be permitted to remain in an outback Queensland lake. Wildlife authorities suspect the skittish reptile was placed in ...

Larry' is everything you want and rarely get in animation: an absurd, hilarious, philosophical work that ignores all manner of reality and physics.

Add some light chills and thrills to your movie marathon with 'Edward Scissorhands,' 'Hocus Pocus' and more streaming on ...