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 ...

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When “Toy Story” was first released in 1995, the most important element was the story, and for each subsequent installment that followed, story was vital. Production designer Bob Pauley who has been ...

If you've ever wanted to up your animation game, now's your chance. Pixar Animation Studios has made their in-house rendering software free to download and use.

The rendering software behind such hit animated movies as The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Monsters Inc. should become even more powerful when it becomes available on Microsoft Corp.’s most advanced ...

Fans of Pixar rejoice — the animation studio behind such popular films as Toy Story, Monsters Inc., and Pirates of the Caribbean has announced its 3D rendering software will be given away for free for ...

Pixar, Adobe, Apple, Autodesk, and Nvidia have teamed with the Joint Development Foundation (JDF), an affiliate of the Linux Foundation, to launch the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD), an initiative ...

The only thing more reliable than a Pixar Animation Studios hit has been the company's stock. For Wall Street, that's not necessarily a good thing. Pixar shares have spent most of the past four years ...

Buoyed by strong sales of its "Toy Story 2" creation, Steve Jobs' Pixar Animation Studios said Thursday that it easily beat the Street in its fourth quarter. The digital animation studio posted a ...

When “Toy Story” was first released in 1995, the most important element was the story, and for each subsequent installment that followed, story was vital. Production designer Bob Pauley who has been ...