Computer animation has come a long way since the first Toy Story movie. Last week, Pixar offered a rare behind-the-scenes look at the sophisticated system used on Brave and Monsters University. As ...

At last week’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, Pixar’s keynote address included a rare demo of the studio’s proprietary animation program, called Presto. Pixar developed the system for the 2012 ...

A new paper authored by researchers from Disney Research and several universities describes a new approach to procedural speech animation based on deep learning. The system samples audio recordings of ...

Electronic Arts has filed a patent for a new approach to facial modeling and animation that’s intended to heighten realism. Crafting lifelike human models capable of authentically emoting has been a ...

Sony’s Magic Lab are set to demonstrate a new procedural animation system which it says allows VR characters found in VR to “imbue a sense of shared space with the player” with realistic eye, head and ...