silhouettes, it prepares the audience to what is about to happen in your scene. It gives them time to process your character’s actions and intentions, thereby making it absolutely clear what the character is doing or thinking. On another level,...

Advertisements are everywhere.  On the back of cereal boxes, on the sides of busses, on billboards, in magazines, on TV, and, of course, the internet.  It’s funny, most people spend a lot of energy trying to avoid advertisements, but in the world of...

Pixar Animation Studios once again redefines CG animated features with its 10th film, Disney/Pixar’s Up. A square. A circle. Two fundamental shapes in geometry, two iconic shapes in computer graphics. And, the simple basis for the visual...

The truth is that you can’t single out any one principle as "the" most important. In the past, I’ve said that animation is kind of like golf. Have you ever tried to golf? Well, I’m not much of a golfer, but I’ve learned enough to know that there are...

Adobe researchers Hailin Jin and Aseem Agarwala*, collaborating with U.Wisconsin prof. Michael Gleicher & Feng Liu, have unveiled their work on "Content-Preserving Warps for 3D Video Stabilization." In other words, their tech can give your (and my)...