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In the greener days of the internet, a proto-meme image bouncing around forums and chat boards depicted a crudely computer-animated Marmaduke sitting at an Italian restaurant, getting yelled at by a bearded man: “SIGNOR MARMADUKE! WHATTA YOU DOIN’ IN LUIGI’S PIZZA PLACE WHEN YOU A DOG AND NO PEOPLE?” This man, presumably Luigi, then notices that something in Marmaduke’s red, pitiless eyes has transformed both his hands into Santa Claus heads, which laugh in Japanese and act as rocket thrusters propelling him into space.My…

MIT professor of physics Richard Milner, Jefferson Laboratory physicists Rolf Ent and Rik Yoshida, MIT documentary filmmakers Chris Boebel and Joe McMaster, and Sputnik Animation’s James LaPlante have teamed up to depict the subatomic world in a new way.Try to picture a proton — the tiny, positively charged particle within an atomic nucleus — and you may envision a familiar, textbook diagram: a bundle of billiard balls representing quarks and gluons. From the solid sphere model first proposed by John Dalton in 1803 to the…

In honor of both Star Wars day and Revenge of the Fifth, maker and developer Tod Kurt has thrown together some cool microelectronics projects that pay homage to the classic space opera franchise. Using both a Raspberry Pi RP2040 and an ESP32, he created animations featuring the Death Star and targetting interface seen in the original trilogy.This isn’t Kurt’s first project that uses the popular Raspberry Pi microcontroller. We recently covered his Raspberry Pi Pico breakbeat generator project, which uses the RP2040 board…

The government on Tuesday announced setting up of a task force to recommend steps for promotion of animation, visual effects, gaming, and comic (AVGC) sector.The sector offers immense potential to employ youth, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her Budget speech."The animation, visual effects, gaming, and comic (AVGC) sector offers immense potential to employ youth. An AVGC promotion task force with all stakeholders will be set-up to recommend ways to realize this and build domestic capacity for serving our…

While presenting the Union Budget 2022 this week, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam announced the plans to set up an Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, and Comics (AVGC) promotion task force. It is aimed to “recommend ways to realise” the ability to create jobs and “build domestic capacity” for fulfilling the growing demand in India and around the globe, she noted. Stakeholders have welcomed the move and are looking forward to seeing the government's participation in growing the AVGC sector in the country.Sitharaman in…