Yoshitaka Amano teases special, 100% hand-drawn pilot for ZAN at Anime Expo

For decades, Yoshitaka Amano’s unmistakable artwork has shaped fantasy itself, from Final Fantasy to Vampire Hunter D.

What Is The 'Twins At The Carousel Trend'? The Massive Animation Meme Set To Kikuo's Song Explained

Over the last few weeks, an animation meme and trend using the song "Twins At The Carousel" has spread like wildfire across ...
IEEE

VASA-Rig: Audio-Driven 3D Facial Animation with ‘Live’ Mood Dynamics in Virtual Reality

Abstract: Audio-driven 3D facial animation is crucial for enhancing the metaverse's realism, immersion, and interactivity. While most existing methods focus on generating highly realistic and lively ...
IEEE

Rendering 3D CT Scans through 3D Gaussian Splatting Initialized with Points Sampled by Cube-Based Neural Radiance Fields

Abstract: Inthis paper, we present Cube-Cloud 3D Gaussian Splatting (Cube-Cloud 3DGS), a novel framework designed to render medical image that inherently structured with three fixed axes. The methods ...
Psychology Today

What It Means to Understand vs. Explain in Psychology

Die Natur erklären wir, das Seelenleben verstehen wir [Nature we explain, but psychic life we understand] ― Wilhelm Dilthey, 1894 When I first started studying psychology, I noticed there were two ...