Xencelabs Technologies and Full Sail University are joining forces to give computer animation and gaming students an education in the digital technologies used in today's professional creative ...

Computer animation is the art of creating moving images via the use of computers. It is a subfield of computer graphics and animation. Increasingly it is created by means of 3D computer graphics, ...

Working at Pixar combines two of May's favorite things: science and art. When he was growing up in Mansfield, his dad was one of the first people to purchase a newfangled personal computer in the ...

Researchers have developed a new way to visualize how ancient animals moved as they roamed the Earth — starting with a Yale-discovered dinosaur’s sickle-clawed foot. The new approach, which uses ...

The phenomenal success of Toy Story 4—No. 1 at the box office since its opening two weeks ago, with a worldwide gross of more than $510 million to date—is fueled by the wizardry of Pixar Animation ...

Scientists and computer gamers alike could benefit from a new method for creating soft, realistic shadows in computer-generated images. COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Scientists and computer gamers alike could ...

Cambridge Animation Systems, a developer of 2D computer animation software, has been purchased from its Japanese owners by a consortium of companies that includes an original company founder. Peter ...

This article about “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” first appeared in the TheWrap magazine’s Oscar Nominations Preview issue. “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” isn’t the first animated movie to ...

CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos reports from this year's Siggraph show that advances in digital technology are rapidly changing Hollywood's approach to film animation. Michael Kanellos is editor at ...