The Pixar Era kicked off 30 years ago with the first installment of the popular franchise. It’s given us countless hits, but something has also been lost. By Maya Phillips There are so many ways of ...

Twenty Halloweens ago, Tim Burton conjured Corpse Bride, a fantasy fable that spans the world of the living and the land of the dead. Building on the stylings of The Nightmare Before Christmas, which ...

When “Toy Story” premiered on Nov. 22, 1995, it didn’t just charm audiences — it detonated an artistic revolution. Pixar’s debut feature, it was the first full-length film made entirely with computer ...

Even if you have never heard of Blur Studio, you’ve definitely seen its work. The Culver City, Calif.-based animation and visual effects studio does it all — the production of the wildly successful ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Qiang Tang receives funding from Google via Digital Future Initiative to support the research on this project. Moti Yung works for Google as a distinguished research scientist. Yanan Li is supported ...

Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber have been tapped to rewrite “Dynamic Duo,” a theatrical animated film featuring Dick Grayson and Jason Todd, who have both taken up the mantle of Batman’s ...

Abstract: Digital elevation models (DEMs) are indispensable in the fields of photogrammetry and remote sensing. During generating DEMs from multiview satellite images, nonvalues often occur in areas ...

Student filmmakers have claimed all top honors at the upcoming 2025 SIGGRAPH 2025 Computer Animation Festival (August 10-14), marking what organizers call a “historic milestone” for the computer ...

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) represent a rapidly evolving field within human neuroscience, enabling direct link between the brain and external devices. BCI research is aiming at transitioning from ...