Working at Pixar combines two of May's favorite things: science and art. When he was growing up in Mansfield, his dad was one of the first people to purchase a newfangled personal computer in the ...

Trying to curl hair into perfect spiral curls is difficult enough to do in real life. But for the team of scientists and artists at Pixar, the quest to create a wild mane of curls for Merida, the ...

Pixar developed a new software to animate Merida's hair in Brave, creating a realistic and iconic look for the character. The animation team studied real-life curly hair to ensure the hair movements ...

Teenage girls and their moms. Talk about issues. That biblical-Shakespearean-surface-of-the-sun confluence of emotions is the subtext of "Brave," Pixar's 13th full-length animated feature. The ...

Pixar's first ode to girl power not only changed directors midstream but also forged a new animation system called Presto. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor One day when his three boys were fighting ...

After the disappointment that was Cars 2, and with the first venture into fairytales for Pixar Animation, there's a lot riding on the forthcoming summer release of Brave. In the couple trailers we've ...

Merida, from the animated movie Brave, has just been inducted into the pantheon of Disney Princesses. As the daughter of a king and the star of a Disney/Pixar movie, she does seem like an obvious ...

MILL VALLEY (CBS SF) - A Disney character known for being a headstrong heroine appears a bit different now, and the Bay Area filmmaker behind the movie "Brave" says Disney should be ashamed. The ...

THR: “For all its pictorial and vocal beauty, the film’s emotional line and dramatic contrivances are both more familiar and less inventive than what’s usually delivered by the studio,..What results ...