Photos from the special Ed Catmull ‘Toy Story’ 30th anniversary SIGGRAPH event
Enjoy this slideshow of imagery taken at the special talk and screening from SIGGRAPH Vancouver.
Kevin Bjorke came to Pixar for ‘Toy Story’ and first started modeling on his own Amiga
A special excerpt from befores & afters magazine's special issue on the 30th anniversary of Toy Story.
‘Toy Story’ is turning 30! Celebrate with a full issue of befores & afters magazine
Brand new interviews with crew members who were there at Pixar for the making of the film.
A really, really cool ‘Toy Story’ 30th anniversary event is happening at SIGGRAPH this year
A 4K screening! At SIGGRAPH Vancouver! Plus a special introduction from Ed Catmull. And befores & afters is part of the action!
Inside the visual effects of ‘Inside Out 2’
Character rigging, hair, particles, rendering and that crazy memory orb avalanche.
The AI, volumetric and animation tools that helped make Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ possible
Neural style transfer and enhancements to Pixar’s curvenet animation tools were part of the toolset on the film.
The story behind RenderMan 25’s machine learning Denoiser
How the new denoiser works.
You can now re-visit one of the greatest ever SIGGRAPH presentations in history
ACM has made 50 years of their publications open and freely available, including this killer animation-related session.
VFX Futures: How this new RenderMan Walking Teapot short film pays homage to an animated classic
We talk to Pixar's Dylan Sisson about 'Teapot Meets Potzilla', a homage to Marv Newland's 'Bambi Meets Godzilla' made with RenderMan's Stylized
Did you see ‘Lightyear’? Now read about the tech behind it
A number of technical Pixar papers and videos have already been published covering cloth, hair and environment R&D in computer graphics for
VFX Futures: How all those sparks in Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ were created
Pixar effects supervisor Bill Watral discusses sparks, light speed and more.
Check out Pixar’s Profile Mover rigging tech to be presented at SIGGRAPH
Lots of fun details in their Technical Paper.
Pixar’s Danielle Feinberg on the studio’s new tech in ‘Turning Red’
A new way of rigging and articulation developed at Pixar called profile movers helped craft the very expressive characters in the film.
5 VFX-related talks to check out at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021
Pixar, DNEG, Weta Digital, Digital Domain and more.
‘Monsters, Inc.’ is 20 years old – look back at Pixar’s fur tech breakthroughs
The hairball model Pixar used to develop the dynamic movements of Sulley's fur.
Here’s where you can download ‘production-ready’ CG assets from VFX, anim and game engine studios
Thanks to Animal Logic, WDAS, Pixar, Oats, Unity and Epic.
Tech Weeklies: RenderMan 24, Penzil, 3D Coat 2021, Dynamixyz acquired
Here's what got released in VFX and animation tools this week.
RenderMan 24…so, what are Stylized Looks?
Behind this particular framework in the latest release of Pixar's RenderMan.
Go deep on the tech behind ‘Soul’
Sign up to this Foundry webinar for an insight into Pixar's work on the film.
Suddenly, a whole bunch of behind the scenes of Pixar content to watch
Find it in 'Inside Pixar'.
Behind the scenes of Pixar’s shorts, ‘Out’ and ‘Burrow’
A look at the production of the SparkShorts at the studio.
A visual journey into the Sci-Tech hair simulation winners
Behind the scenes of the tech from Weta Digital, ILM, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar.
Did you see ‘Soul’? Now read about the tech behind it
A number of technical Pixar papers and videos have been published.
How MIDI files, Houdini and the art of animation made piano play possible in Pixar’s ‘Soul’
I mean, have you ever *tried* to animate a pianist playing the right notes?
You definitely want to see these old-school ‘Toy Story’ featurettes
A look at Pixar's animation and modeling process from 'back in the day'.
Retro RenderMan: ‘Children of Men’
How Framestore made a baby.
Retro RenderMan: King Kong’s giant fur challenges
'wmFur', the Marschner Model and more.
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