Engineers at Walt Disney Imagineering have unveiled a new bipedal robot with near perfect balance. This prototype essentially combines procedural animation, modular hardware, as well as reinforcement learning into a walking character capable of strutting, prancing, and more.
Disney Research’s Differentiable Optimal Control (DOC) was designed to help legged robots walk with rich motions. This framework facilitates the transfer of rich motions from either animals or animations onto these robots.
Fumi Games’ Mouse is a first person shooter that appears to be inspired by the 1930s Disney cartoons with rubber hose animation and in the classic noir style. You’re armed with various mid-century firearms and explosives including Revolver, Tommy Gun, Hammer, Carcano, as well as the classic Dynamite.
Slated for release in August 2023, the new Ahsoka series, directed by Dave Filoni among others, was teased during Star Wars Celebration Day. It stars Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka Tano), Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Sabine Wren), Eman Esfandi (Ezra Bridger), Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Hera Syndulla), Ray Stevenson (Baylan), David Tennant (Huyang), and Hayden Christensen (Anakin Skywalker).
First, there was the D-LUX 7 James Bond, and now, the Leica Q2 ‘100 Years of Wonder’ Disney special edition camera has arrived. Its design is inspired by a model sheet created in 1937 by one of Walt Disney Studio’s noted animators, Don Towsley, while a Mickey Mouse print adorns the camera’s top plate
The Mandalorian season 3 is just a few weeks away (March 1), and some gamers are wondering when an official game is going to be released. There are rumors of a Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) title in the works, but nothing has been confirmed yet, and that’s why TeaserPlay created a fan trailer of what an open-world The Mandalorian game made in Unreal Engine 5 could look like.
Disney Research is known for their robots, deepfakes, and now, an AI tool for production ready aging visual effects. In typical productions, digital re-aging of faces in video involves a complex 2D painting workflow that often requires a skilled artist to perform frame-by-frame manual work that can take days to accomplish. This tool changes that by first by tackling the problem of collecting longitudinal training data for learning to re-age faces over extended periods of time.
Universal Studios Hollywood is getting Super Nintendo World next year, and before it opens, Gameloft’s Disney Speedstorm will give Mario Kart Tour some major competition. This new cross-playable arcade racing experience re-imagines iconic Disney and Pixar characters like Captain Jack Sparrow, Mulan, Mickey Mouse, Sulley, as well as Beast.
