RenderMan is celebrating its 20th birthday. By Carolyn Giardina, The Associated Press RenderMan is celebrating its 20th birthday. Pixar Animation’s rendering software first was published two decades ...

Two of Pixar Animation Studios’ earliest employees, Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, have won the computer industry’s prestigious Turing Prize for their contributions to 3D graphics and CGI filmmaking.

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 ...

SEATTLE — Long before toys had a story and bugs got a life, Pixar Animation Studios Inc. was a software company. It started in the 1970s with a team of programmers who wanted to transform mountains of ...

Pixar has released version 25 of its Renderman software, used for rendering animation and vfx. The big headline with this version is the inclusion of Renderman Denoising technology, developed by ...

RenderMan 25 is the latest edition of Pixar's rendering tools, available to everyone. RenderMan has always been a bit of an enigma in my experience. The fact that it’s been used to render some of the ...

Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan created computer techniques that remade animation, special effects, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. By Cade Metz SAN FRANCISCO — Pat Hanrahan was a young ...

It may be because I write for a tech site, and therefore the Steve Jobs focus is always on Apple and NeXT, but Pixar often seems underrepresented when people talk about the Apple co-founder’s life.