The year of the Labubu revealed the ‘new consumption’ trend among China’s Gen Z—and now it’s spreading overseas

Labubu has powered monster growth for Chinese toymaker Pop Mart and tapped into China's newfound branding power that could ...
CNET

300,000 Character Poses in an AI Instant: My Visit to Disney Was a Peek at Animation's New Reality

Disney looked at "thousands of AI companies" before backing one that keeps animators in control of the output.
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Computer Animation Before ‘Toy Story’: The Wild, Brilliant Experiments That Built CGI Animation

Explore the groundbreaking experiments and innovations in computer animation that paved the way for Pixar’s 'Toy Story,' ...
MarketWatch

Videogames are a bigger industry than movies and North American sports combined, thanks to the pandemic

Videogames have grown to resemble competition-based, interactive movies, and the COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the industry to make more money than movies and North American sports combined. Global ...