Rango wins out at the revamped Annie Awards
Gongs far more evenly divided this year, following changes to voting process and end of Disney boycott.
Monday, February 6th, 2012
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Indie animations beat Pixar to 2012 Oscar shortlist
A Cat in Paris and Chico and Rita squeeze out Cars 2 and Tintin from the best animated feature line-up.
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Pixar launches RenderMan On Demand online service
Take the strain off your render farm by uploading RenderMan rendering jobs to the cloud.
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Q&A: Jeremy Vickery, Pixar lighting guru
The Brave veteran sets out to demystify cinematic lighting for his upcoming Gnomon Master Class.
Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Eye candy: Pixar's latest Brave trailer
New teaser for 'the Scottish movie' goes online. Expect wild hair, wild mountains and even wilder accents.
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Tributes pour in for former Pixar CEO Steve Jobs
See our pick of the coverage and watch Jobs' moving 2005 speech on how to truly live before you die.
Thursday, October 6th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Pixar unveils RenderMan for Maya 5.0
Forthcoming update to overhaul raytracing and add 'physically plausible' shading, radiosity cache.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
Former Toy Story concept artist tops iPad app charts
William Joyce tops Apple's sales rankings with the charming The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore.
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Watch a day in the life of John Lasseter
New YouTube documentary shows 24 hours of the Pixar CCO's working life condensed into 25 minutes.
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Sign up for Autodesk's free pre-Siggraph student event
Register now for tech sessions and a free animation masterclass with Pixar's Carlos Baena.
Thursday, July 7th, 2011
Eye candy: the Brave teaser
See, Pixar can still do original movies when they try. And they didn't even need to hire Mel Gibson.
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Eye candy: Planes trailer
Clip from not-Pixar-actually sequel to Cars takes wing onto YouTube, along with teaser for La Luna short.
Monday, June 13th, 2011
Pixar releases RenderMan Pro Server 16.0
Update to industry-standard renderer adds new interactive raytracing options, deep compositing tools.
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011