The artistic shift can be explained, in part, by the way hardware and computer-animation software has constantly improved. animated short film award and the jury prize, respectively.

Intel Corp. is combining computer animation and social networking to produce an original animated short film.

He says with the latest computer animation software (including some written by DWA for The Last Wish), “we’re able to bring a different creative vision to the computer and up onto the big screen.

Reeves was instrumental in the 1980s development of RenderMan, a suite of computer animation software (now in its twenty-second version) that has become the industry standard for visual-effects ...

Autodesk Maya, usually referred to as just Maya, is a 3D computer animation software with powerful modeling, rendering, simulation, texturing, and animation tools for artists and animators.

“That sounds like less work, but it tripled the work because the computer animation software was used to an image in every frame. So we had to create new algorithms for everything,” he said.

Researchers have developed a new way to visualize how ancient animals moved as they roamed the Earth — starting with a Yale-discovered dinosaur’s sickle-clawed foot. The new approach, which uses ...

If you’ve seen an animated movie or played a video game lately, you know that it’s getting harder and harder to tell the difference between computer animation and the real deal. The door is ...

A rendering created in a computer-aided-design (CAD) program that includes animation. Starting out with simple movements such as a rotating turntable, CAD animation software has greatly evolved ...

While the script for "Toy Story" underwent rewrites, computer scientists were working on building the software that would eventually make computer animation possible.

DreamWorks has tapped Hewlett-Packard to provide technology to the studio's computer-animation operation over the next three years. The deal is HP's largest to date with a studio.