Wayne Carlson at Ohio State University compiled the history of computer graphics and animation from its humble beginnings in 1951. There's plenty to be learned here, so pull up a chair and a pot of ...

While deciding how to animate “Elemental” (Pixar), director Peter Sohn was having a crisis. How do you animate fire? Or water? He could take cues from Hayao Miyazaki’s Calcifer in “Howl’s Moving ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists and computer gamers alike could benefit from a new method for creating soft, realistic shadows in computer-generated images. COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Scientists and computer gamers alike could ...

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 ...

Combining art, science, engineering, and the psychology of human perception and interaction, computer graphics involves the creation and manipulation of visual content used in applications ranging ...

When I heard the news, my mind didn’t turn to any of the big-budget features produced by PDI/Dreamworks, starting with Antz in 1998. Instead, I thought about an era well before there was a DreamWorks.