How do you take the old way of making a product and fuse it with new technology to move your business forward? Here are some tips from the head of Laika animation studios.
Long before ParaNorman’s protagonist could start battling zombies, Laika’s Brian McLean and his 40-member team had to tame a new stop-motion technology process. McLean talks about the bloody road to the film’s bleeding-edge character design.
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As head of animation studio Laika, Travis Knight guides the strategic vision of the company. As lead animator of the shop's latest film, "ParaNorman," he personally crafted 15,000 frames of animation. What CEOs can learn from the hands-on creative leader.
Universal translators are something of a holy grail in mobile tech trends--and Microsoft's just revealed its latest effort at its own TechFest show. It's real-time. And it uses your own voice and face.
Today Google is paying homage to a ubiquitous but little-known creator in pop culture history: Art Clokey, the creator of Gumby. That talking slab of green goo with the asymmetrical head, who first appeared on TV in 1955, has become so ingrained in our collective memory that he's more of a symbol or metaphor than anything else. But where did he come from? Like Jim Henson, Art Clokey created ads for a living to finance his experimental art as a young man--before that very experimental vision itself became attractive to the suits as fodder for childrens' programming.
Today Adobe is launching a public preview of Edge, its tool for web designers that allows moving, interactive graphics on a website using HTML5, not Flash. Adobe tells Fast Company why it's the tip of the iceberg.
A world without voicemail would be a wonderful world indeed. But that's not going to happen -- and even if it did, we'd lose small pleasures like "Animation Hotline," in which Dustin Grella takes one voicemail each day and turns it into an animated chalk drawing just for kicks. Sound kooky? You're not alone: Here's an animation based on a message expressing skepticism that the entire enterprise isn't a hoax:
