SPARK Animation revealed the 2026 festival awards winners, led by Sunrise 50th anniversary short 'Metafear' as Best in Show.

The Vancouver festival also honored Canadian short 'Distance,' student film 'The Memory Clocksmith,' and the late educator and fest Chair, Keith P. Blackmore.

His work at Bell Labs in the 1960s laid the groundwork for today’s computer-generated imagery in film and on TV. By Cade Metz Ken Knowlton, an engineer, computer scientist and artist who helped ...

SIGGRAPH, the premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques, which takes place July 19-23 at the L.A. Convention Center this year, has announced the winners of its prestigious ...

Chances are, if you’re a movie fan you’re familiar with Theodore Kim’s intricate pixel work. From the Sorting Hat in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” to the dancers’ flowing skirts in “Coco,” ...

Newly Expanded to Include Films Longer Than 10 Minutes, the Computer Animation Festival Honors Three Winning Films From South Africa, the United States, and France LOS ANGELES, June 19, 2026 ...

The conference's humble beginnings started as a small gathering of computer graphics enthusiasts. SIGGRAPH has grown globally, with annual conferences in North America and Asia, drawing attendees from ...

Recently, I had a conversation with a friend about computer graphics and animation. Both of us are techies, so of course the discussion gravitated to hardware and software. In 1986 B.W. (before ...

A total of 13 new technologies in computer graphics and interactive techniques, including 3D graphics and animation, intuitive human-computer interaction technologies and neural signal processing, ...

This article originally appeared in Yale Engineering Magazine. Shortly after arriving at Yale, Theodore Kim was invited to give a guest lecture on the history of computer-generated imagery (CGI) for a ...

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today named Patrick M. (Pat) Hanrahan and Edwin E. (Ed) Catmull recipients of the 2019 ACM A.M. Turing Award for fundamental contributions to 3-D computer ...

The gig: Animator Hao Li, 34, is an assistant professor of computer science at USC, running a small, newly renovated lab with five graduate students at the university’s school of engineering. His team ...