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 ...

As we hit Toy Story’s 30th anniversary, we thought about how far animation has come. No disrespect to the O.G., but after a ...

Animation in film and video games is hard to make realistic: each action typically requires creating a separate controller, while deep reinforcement learning has yet to generate realistic human or ...

The human characters in Disney's new 3-D film "Mars Needs Moms" have been criticized as appearing – get this – too lifelike. But isn't realistic animation a good thing? Not exactly, according to the ...

Advances in computer-generated imagery have brought vivid, realistic animations to life, but the sounds associated with what we see simulated on screen, such as two objects colliding, are often ...

Aki Ross is the very model of a modern movie heroine: brunet, lithe, headstrong and confident enough to lead a team of commandos on a mission to rescue the planet Earth. No doubt the producers of her ...

Every time Disney has produced “The Lion King,” it’s been a stylized rendition, and the question becomes whether the particular style — hand-drawn animation in the 1994 film, puppet performance in the ...

Computer animation has a problem: When it gets too realistic, it starts creeping people out. Most recently, moviegoers complained about the near-realistic depiction of humans in Disney’s 3-D flick ...

Using well-established machine learning techniques, researchers from University of California, Berkeley have taught simulated humanoids to perform over 25 natural motions, from somersaults and ...

It all started in a nondescript building tucked in an industrial park. “It was amazing-looking stuff they were doing with practical effects, and we were doing computer graphics,” said Phillips, now a ...

New ClickFix attack variants have been observed where threat actors trick users with a realistic-looking Windows Update ...

It's still easy to tell computer-simulated motions from the real thing - on the big screen or in video games, simulated humans and animals often move clumsily, without the rhythm and fluidity of their ...