ArticlesRetro You can now re-visit one of the greatest ever SIGGRAPH presentations in history ·September 18, 2022 ACM has made 50 years of their publications open and freely available, including this killer animation-related session.
Podcasts VFX Futures: How this new RenderMan Walking Teapot short film pays homage to an animated classic ·July 20, 2022 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 Looks.
Articles Did you see ‘Lightyear’? Now read about the tech behind it ·July 14, 2022 A number of technical Pixar papers and videos have already been published covering cloth, hair and environment R&D in computer graphics for the film.
Podcasts VFX Futures: How all those sparks in Pixar’s ‘Lightyear’ were created ·June 24, 2022 Pixar effects supervisor Bill Watral discusses sparks, light speed and more.
Articles Check out Pixar’s Profile Mover rigging tech to be presented at SIGGRAPH ·May 18, 2022 Lots of fun details in their Technical Paper.
Podcasts Pixar’s Danielle Feinberg on the studio’s new tech in ‘Turning Red’ ·March 19, 2022 A new way of rigging and articulation developed at Pixar called profile movers helped craft the very expressive characters in the film.
Articles 5 VFX-related talks to check out at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 ·December 9, 2021 Pixar, DNEG, Weta Digital, Digital Domain and more.
ArticlesVFX Breakdowns ‘Monsters, Inc.’ is 20 years old – look back at Pixar’s fur tech breakthroughs ·November 1, 2021 The hairball model Pixar used to develop the dynamic movements of Sulley's fur.
Articles Here’s where you can download ‘production-ready’ CG assets from VFX, anim and game engine studios ·August 8, 2021 Thanks to Animal Logic, WDAS, Pixar, Oats, Unity and Epic.
Articles Tech Weeklies: RenderMan 24, Penzil, 3D Coat 2021, Dynamixyz acquired ·July 2, 2021 Here's what got released in VFX and animation tools this week.
Articles RenderMan 24…so, what are Stylized Looks? ·June 30, 2021 Behind this particular framework in the latest release of Pixar's RenderMan.
VFX Insight Go deep on the tech behind ‘Soul’ ·May 3, 2021 Sign up to this Foundry webinar for an insight into Pixar's work on the film.
Articles Suddenly, a whole bunch of behind the scenes of Pixar content to watch ·March 31, 2021 Find it in 'Inside Pixar'.
Articles Behind the scenes of Pixar’s shorts, ‘Out’ and ‘Burrow’ ·March 6, 2021 A look at the production of the SparkShorts at the studio.
Articles A visual journey into the Sci-Tech hair simulation winners ·February 6, 2021 Behind the scenes of the tech from Weta Digital, ILM, Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar.
Articles Did you see ‘Soul’? Now read about the tech behind it ·January 4, 2021 A number of technical Pixar papers and videos have been published.
Articles How MIDI files, Houdini and the art of animation made piano play possible in Pixar’s ‘Soul’ ·December 11, 2020 I mean, have you ever *tried* to animate a pianist playing the right notes?
Articles You definitely want to see these old-school ‘Toy Story’ featurettes ·November 24, 2020 A look at Pixar's animation and modeling process from 'back in the day'.
Retro Retro RenderMan: King Kong’s giant fur challenges ·September 1, 2020 'wmFur', the Marschner Model and more.
Retro Retro RenderMan: ILM’s stunning Davy Jones ·August 19, 2020 The rendering advancements made for the extremely memorable character.
Retro Retro RenderMan: shading on ‘Finding Nemo’ ·July 31, 2020 How RenderMan was used for the film's coral reef.
Retro Retro RenderMan: shading food for ‘Ratatouille’ ·July 22, 2020 How Pixar made cheese and bread and grapes look good enough to eat.
Articles See Pixar’s Dylan Sisson in a new PreVIEW of VIEW Conference (and RenderMan!) ·July 17, 2020 I'll be joining him for a chat about the latest RenderMan tech, including NPR.
Retro Retro Renderman: Reflections in ‘Ratatouille’ ·July 8, 2020 A look back at brick maps and radiance caches.
Articles Pixar is breaking down some key scenes from its films ·April 21, 2020 Starting with the final Omnidroid fight in 'The Incredibles'.
Articles Pixar did some greenscreen experiments for ‘Onward’s’ Dad character ·April 6, 2020 A new behind the scenes video.