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 ...

Animation in film and video games is hard to make realistic: each action typically requires creating a separate controller, while deep reinforcement learning has yet to generate realistic human or ...

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 Story ...

It all began with a hypnotic sequence of spirals. Elements of the opening titles to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 thriller Vertigo - which look like Spirograph drawings brought to life - have been cited as ...

2015 SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival Featuring some of the best examples of computer animation from the past year, the festival is a qualifier for the Academy Awards. 7-9 p.m. Torpedo Factory Art ...