Computer animation or CGI animation is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The more general term computer-generated imagery encompasses both static scenes and ...

Every industry has its own version of the Nobel Prize. Film has the Oscars, the internet has the Webby Awards, music has the AMAs. Computing machinery, meanwhile, has The Turing Award, and that's just ...

Sounds accompanying computer-animated content are usually created with recordings. Now, a new system synthesizes synchronized sound at the push of a button. Advances in computer-generated imagery have ...

Cornell researchers have developed a new and much quicker method for rendering hair in computer graphics that promises to make blond (and other light-colored) hair more realistic. Poets and novelists ...

When Edwin Catmull arrived at the University of Utah’s graphics lab as a grad student in 1970, its state-of-the-art monochrome monitors showed only blocky shapes made from polygons. He spent the next ...

Toy Story 4 will mark Pixar’s 21st film within a 24 year span. 100% computer animated films didn’t even exist until 24 years ago, when Pixar invented them with Toy Story. Pixar doesn’t just carry the ...

TLDR: Poser Pro helps artists create photorealistic 3D characters for still images and animation that look just like the real thing. As a computer graphics professional to whip up an alien moonscape ...

While Odyssey focused primarily on 35mm back-lit motion graphics and special effects for the first 5 years of its existence, its award-winning release of the world's first home entertainment video of ...

A big development for the wild world of animated graphics is coming to augmented reality from Tenor, the massive search site for Graphics Interchange Format images and developer of the Tenor GIF ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Pat Hanrahan, who studied nuclear engineering and biophysics before becoming a founding employee of Pixar Animation Studios. As well as ...

PC hardware maker NZXT has just announced the latest additions to its line of liquid CPU coolers, the Kraken X-3 and Z-3. The X-3 has a bright LED ring and rotates so the logo can be repositioned. The ...