Before the silver screen
The golden age of hand-drawn art
Stop-motion and the physical world
The digital frontier and anime
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007skaty Digital Acting in Animation
Polar Express, Polar Express, the first film built on captured movement!
007skaty John Lasseter directed the movie using a render farm of 117 computers running 24 hours a day to process 114,240 frames.
007skaty Drag 2D comic textures onto 3D animation to discover the hybrid style of Spider-Verse.
Digital fur: Pixar's Monsters, Inc. in 2001 required a brand-new physics program to animate Sulley's 2.3 million individual hairs.
A style of hand-drawn and computer animation originating in Japan. In 2004, the studio Digital Frontier produced Appleseed, pioneering 3D cel-shaded graphics in Japanese animation.
In what year did Pixar release Toy Story, the world's first fully computer-animated feature film?
007skaty Pixar Animation Studios pioneered the transition to computer-generated filmmaking.
What is the name of the proprietary rendering software developed by Pixar to calculate light and shadows in CGI?
Which Studio Ghibli co-founder directed Spirited Away, the first hand-drawn non-English film to win an Academy Award?
What medium does Studio Ghibli primarily use to paint its legendary, lush background landscapes?
What comic book printing technique was digitally recreated in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse to shade characters?
Which actor is widely considered the pioneer of motion-capture acting, portraying Gollum and King Kong?