Back in the early 1980s, a spinning square world heralded the start of a computer animation revolution, as this archive BBC footage shows. Back in 1982, computing was really going mainstream.

Robert Abel, the computer animation and graphics guru who used multimedia to create award-winning commercials, films and classroom educational materials, has died. He was 64. Abel, credited with ...

In 1995, Pixar was ready to unveil its first feature film, Toy Story, which was also the first feature film composed entirely of computer-animated graphics. Before the film was released ...

The latest rush into animation went ... Animation to produce computer-animated features. Other studios are jumping in as well: Sony has a slate of six computer graphics, or CG, films in development.

It’s hard to believe we’re in a world where the original Toy Story, the first fully computer-generated feature film, is more than 20 years old. Its computer animation was revolutionary for ...

Reproducing this effect in computer graphics has always been a challenge ... His earlier methods for rendering hair helped to create computer-animated versions of Naomi Watts in the arms of ...

Jobs bought the Computer Graphics Division of Lucasfilms in 1986 and made it an independent company called Pixar. That year it released “Luxo Jr.”, the first 3D computer-animated film to be nominated ...

who headed a computer graphics program at Cornell, later said that during those two minutes, a thousand students decided to go into computer animation. “These people knew what we’d done ...

The result: shadows that begin to approach the realism of Hollywood animation, but don't require ... IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. The new software algorithms are ...

By Cade Metz Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped pioneer the science and art of computer graphics and ... language for computer animation, called BEFLIX (short ...