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 ...

Poets and novelists often describe hair as "shining" or "shimmering." Dark hair has a "sheen"; blond hair "glows." All this comes about because of the complex scattering of incident light off of ...

We break down how Pixar improved computer animation with every one of its movies from "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life" to "Ratatouille" and "Cars 2." ...

A new tool that allows researchers to create realistic full-body animations of monkeys has provided the first evidence that ...