Former Cartoon Brew owner, founding editor, and our dear friend, Amid Amidi, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Animafest Zagreb Award for Outstanding Contribution to Animation Studies. The ...

In an animation industry that increasingly feels overrun by consolidation, studio aversion to taking risks, and the proliferation of soulless automation, indie artists are launching their own studios ...

With more realistic images than before, GPT Image 1.5 fares reasonably well against Google's Nano Banana Pro in my testing. OpenAI still has some work to do. I’ve been writing about consumer ...

Rotating running shoes—switching up daily trainers and other types of shoes to match different workout demands—is common practice in the sport. Many runners understand that building a solid shoe ...

Google has expanded Product Studio inside Merchant Center, rolling out three new creative features that go beyond its original image generation tool. What’s new. In addition to image generation, ...

Google is testing an animation, where an image asset slides into the sponsored results listing. So it turns a pure search text ad into a text ad with an image that slides in from the right side of the ...

PPC news this week focused on creative tool updates and the people shaping how we use them. Google Ads brought Nano Banana Pro into its creative workflow, giving advertisers sharper, more flexible ...

Microsoft Advertising is rolling out Image Animation, a new Copilot-powered feature that automatically converts static images into short, dynamic video assets — giving advertisers a faster path into ...

Microsoft Advertising has expanded artificial intelligence (AI) animation capabilities in Copilot that turn still images into short videos. "Image Animation" transforms static images into short video ...

MAI-Image-1 has shipped Try it now at https://t.co/24MRu9VQ0z or the Bing app, plus it’ll generate custom art for your Story Mode audio at https://t.co/9hL81LTFwF ...