animate
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Another used A.I. to animate a photo of Walters, the digital replica lamenting his sentence of “death by incarceration.”
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Under his own studio, he became best known for the dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park,” using computer generation to animate the prehistoric creatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
They just needed to submit photographs of themselves and their loved ones, and AI would then animate the material following specific prompts.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Such outcomes would not resolve the broader debates that animate these cases.
From Slate ● Jan. 14, 2026
Images from the day animate themselves, jumbling in my vision.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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By placing sculpture and design in direct dialogue, the show reveals how thoroughly Noguchi’s sculptural intelligence animates every object he created.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Their hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their AI products — a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 2, 2026
The same logic animates the administration’s posture toward the Western Hemisphere.
From Barron's ● Mar. 20, 2026
Much has been written about right-wing women and what animates them.
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2025
What animates Volpe is creating moments for his kids to figure it out for themselves.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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The company has produced, among others, the series "Big Little Lies," "The Morning Show," and "Little Fires Everywhere," as well as animated series and podcasts.
From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026
Much later, when Bartlett was creating his own animated series, he knew that the poetry of that moment, the strange cinematic magic of it, was something he wanted to tap into.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Hasbro, Adidas and Penguin Random House are among the initial licensing partners for “Messi and the Giants,” Sony’s forthcoming animated TV series coming to Disney+.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Cage also voiced a different version of Spider-Noir in the animated 2018 movie “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Like Transformers—the cartoons and toys and the animated movie that was real dark—but without the “e-r-s” at the end.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
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Van der poel, Evenepoel, Wout van Aert, Paul Seixas and Pidcock were all there, all animating and pushing to breakaway from one another under gradually yellowing Canadian maples.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Lixenberg’s photo series “Imperial Courts,” about residents of the Watts housing project, which she shot between 1993 and 2015, was likewise an animating factor behind the creative vision and legacy he wanted to build.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Whatnot auctions are events—sellers are personalities who fire up bids, chats buzz with hundreds of buyers, and the animating pressure is often the same: bid now or lose out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
This provocation sets the narrative in motion, framed by Garbus’ choice to illustrate the children’s ambitions by animating them as pieces on a game board modeled after Monopoly.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
He turned his face to me, flames animating the shadows that fell there under his eyes, along his cheekbones.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
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