Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he’s got a vision for where the pixel will take us next.

Two original Pixar Animation Studios employees have won the Turing Award for developing the computer graphics technology that was key to creating Toy Story, the first feature-length computer ...

Two men who invented game-changing 3D computer graphics techniques now widely used in the film industry have won the highest distinction in computer science: the Turing Award. If you enjoyed Toy ...

The latest rush into animation went into high gear in May when George Lucas announced the creation of Lucasfilm Animation to produce computer-animated features. Other studios are jumping in as ...

Ed Catmull, future President of Pixar and a member of the Computer Graphics Group, had modeled his hand and animated it on a computer years before. Couldn’t the same be done with a person’s body?

Today, according to the ACM press release “3-D computer animated films represent a wildly popular genre in the $138 billion global film industry. 3-D computer imagery is also central to the ...

December 1, 2022 3 min read Discovery Helps Computers Draw Intricate Two-Dimensional Animations A new algorithm solves the long-standing “hidden line problem” of computer graphics By Lyndie Chiou ...

Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and made many of the first computer-generated pictures, portraits and movies ...

The "tech" of "Shrek" also marked a step-up for computer graphics. This included the sophisticated digital rendering of fire and water, and the illusion of convincing human characters.