In the decades-long quest to perfect animated hair, the makers of Merida's wild locks in Pixar's Brave have gotten one step closer to perfection. Hair has presented a particular problem for animators ...

Pre-Pixar and the modern CGI era, animation didn't get hair right because the technology wasn't there. "As any animator will tell you, the hardest thing to accurately render is the millions of tiny ...

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 ...

Pre-Pixar and the modern CGI era, animation didn't get hair right because the technology wasn't there. "As any animator will tell you, the hardest thing to accurately render is the millions of tiny ...

FX Guide offers an in-depth look at how Pixar created the curly red hair of Brave‘s Merida including a 30-minute audio podcast with Pixar simulation supervisor Claudia Chung. The new official website ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every Pixar movie has introduced its own technical problems, from Hank's tentacle animation in "Finding Dory" to the intense ...