When a person has a bad hair day, that's unfortunate. When a virtual character has bad hair, an entire animation video or film can look unrealistic. A new innovative method developed by Disney ...

When Theodore Kim was in high school, he watched “Jurassic Park” and “Toy Story,” which motivated him to work at the intersection of art and technology. Recently, he has led Yale researchers towards ...

Hayley Iben found a way to make movie characters' hair look more naturally curly and wavy. Animated movie characters, that is. For that achievement, Iben, a 1997 Blackhawk High graduate, earned an ...

The animation industry has long struggled to get Black hair right — from the infamous “Killmonger locs,” named after the Black Panther character and copied across video games, to the stiff, oversized ...