The gig: Animator Hao Li, 34, is an assistant professor of computer science at USC, running a small, newly renovated lab with five graduate students at the university’s school of engineering. His team ...

Allison happily embraces being a geek. In between snuggles with her dog and writing, you can find her watching Disney movies, enjoying a good gritty docuseries, singing along to musical show tunes, or ...

When it comes to teaching science, animation seems like a natural fit. What better way to convey how a bicycle pump works or the functions of the human respiratory system? Yet research has turned up ...

At Fredrikstad Animation Festival, indie filmmaker Nikita Diakur shared how chaos, humor, and connection drive his ...

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[SIGGRAPH 2018] [Highlights] Toward Wave-based Sound Synthesis for Computer Animation In the early days of cinema, organists would add sound effects to silent movies by playing along to whatever was ...

To infinity and beyond! Toy Story, the first fully computer-generated full-length film as well as the first movie from ...

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 ...

Before Pixar and Lucasfilm, before Jurassic Park and Death Becomes Her, before even Tron and The Last Starfighter, there was AT&T's A Computer Technique for the Production of Animated Movies. Nowadays ...