Instead of animating each hair one by one, Pixar computer scientists created a program called Fizt, which would automate the movement of Sully's hairs based on what's happening in any given scene.
Then Pixar came along to give the behemoth a run for its money, beginning with the 1995 release of "Toy Story," the world's first computer-animated film. Pixar continued its ascent with scores of ...
“Elemental” is a computer-animated film that features characters whose bodies are entirely composed of classical elements such as water or fire. Knight said Pixar required significant ...
Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: For this scene in "Coco," Pixar's computer kept getting Mamá Imelda's skirt caught between her skeleton joints. So Pixar developed a whole new ...
Named for computer scientist Alan Turing, the Turing Award is given to those who make “major contributions of lasting importance to computing.” Catmull is former president of Pixar and Disney ...
But they stuck with me and, in the long run, I figured it out." In the early pioneering years, Pixar wonks created the computer tech as they went along, conquering one photorealistic Holy Grail ...