Robert Abel, the computer animation and graphics guru who used multimedia to create award-winning commercials, films and classroom educational materials, has died. He was 64. Abel, credited with ...

From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences, but which one is for you?

Every industry has its own version of the Nobel Prize. Film has the Oscars, the internet has the Webby Awards, music has the AMAs. Computing machinery, meanwhile, has The Turing Award, and that's just ...

While deciding how to animate “Elemental” (Pixar), director Peter Sohn was having a crisis. How do you animate fire? Or water? He could take cues from Hayao Miyazaki’s Calcifer in “Howl’s Moving ...

Cornell researchers have developed a new and much quicker method for rendering hair in computer graphics that promises to make blond (and other light-colored) hair more realistic. Poets and novelists ...

As the annual gathering for building community and expanding connections in the computer graphics industry, SIGGRAPH 2026 will unite passionate technical and creative minds looking to advance ...

From Hogwarts’s sorting hat to Buzz Lightyear’s spacesuit, Theodore Kim ’01 has helped bring iconic creations to life on the big screen. A former computer science undergraduate and postdoctoral ...

Scientists and computer gamers alike could benefit from a new method for creating soft, realistic shadows in computer-generated images. COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Scientists and computer gamers alike could ...

The creation of computer graphics has evolved dramatically as computers have become commonplace in homes around the world. Computers today are more powerful, smaller and quieter than those in the past ...