Robert Abel, the computer animation and graphics guru who used multimedia to create award-winning commercials, films and classroom educational materials, has died. He was 64. Abel, credited with ...
In 2007 a new documentary called The Pixar Story screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival. It covered the wild antics of the studio’s founders as they crafted a new kind of movie—a fully ...
Steve Jobs famously purchased Pixar from Lucasfilm for $10 million in 1986, selling the company to Disney 20 years later for $7.4 billion. In 1995, Pixar was ready to unveil its first feature film, ...
Google WebP engineers are encountering resistance from Google Chrome engineers about whether it's worth supporting the animated version of the image format. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...
The 3D modeling systems that made ‘Toy Story’ possible have been key to enabling unmanned aircraft to navigate and aim their ...
When Edwin Catmull arrived at the University of Utah’s graphics lab as a grad student in 1970, its state-of-the-art monochrome monitors showed only blocky shapes made from polygons. He spent the next ...
From poetic vignettes to cinematic journeys, the festival spotlights global creators shaping the next era of animation and visual storytellingAward-winning shorts to be showcased this December in Hong ...
Wayne Carlson at Ohio State University compiled the history of computer graphics and animation from its humble beginnings in 1951. There's plenty to be learned here, so pull up a chair and a pot of ...
Ed Catmull, the Pixar Animation Studios co-founder who helped pioneer the computer-animation industry and led Walt Disney Co.’s animation business to its contemporary renaissance, is retiring. Catmull ...