The history of computer animation began as early as the 1940s and 1950s, when people began to experiment with computer graphics – most notably by John Whitney. It was only by the early 1960s when digital computers had become widely established, that new avenues for innovative computer graphics blossomed.

Produced by Charles McGhie, some early computer-generated imagery techniques were combined with stop-motion and real-time visual effects to create the opening title sequence for the show's fourth and final series.

Software created by Pixar in the first few years (or expanded from that developed at the ILM division) included the REYES (Renders Everything You Ever Saw) renderer, CAPS (developed for Disney), Marionette, an animation software system that allowed animators to model and animate characters and add lighting effects, and Ringmaster, which was ...

Pixar Animation Studios, also known simply as Pixar (/ ˈ p ɪ k s ɑːr /), is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, a segment of the Walt Disney Company.. …

2021年8月3日 · First came the software that enabled computers to create two-dimensional images and, later, virtual 3D objects. Then we figured out how to move those objects, shade them, and light them before rendering them as frames of a movie. Alvy Ray Smith (left) and Ed Emshwiller at work on Sunstone in 1979 at the New York Institute of Technology.

2023年11月2日 · While its founders hedged their bets on the power of digital animation, dreaming of the day that a whole feature film could be made through a computer, it has a turbulent history that involves...

2013年6月7日 · But more than a decade before spinning Pixar out of Lucasfilm, Catmull was studying computer graphics at the University of Utah. As a graduate student in 1972, one of Catmull's projects (along with classmate Fred Parke) was to animate his left hand.

2024年3月24日 · Toy Story debuted in 1995 as the world‘s first fully computer-animated feature film, grossing over $350 million worldwide. Beyond financial success, it announced Pixar‘s innovative storytelling brilliance to the world. No longer just computing pioneers, Pixar could craft emotive stories resonating universally.

2011年8月26日 · Production on the first Toy Story began in 1991, which was a landmark year for visual effects and animation as both Terminator 2 and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast both made heavy use of advances in computer technology.

2021年8月31日 · Alvy Ray Smith, who cofounded Pixar, was a leading figure in the early days of digital cinema. He's written a new book, The Biography of a Pixel, that traces the ideas and science that led to...