"Toy Story" wasn't the first movie to use RenderMan, but it was the first-ever 3D-animated feature film. And the only way Pixar could render the whole movie was with RenderMan, which shows how ...

And one of the most important factors in how Pixar makes its magic happen involves rendering. Rendering saves the computer image to the perfect finished image or video frame, with lighting and ...

A photorealistic image programming interface from Pixar Animation Studios, Inc., Emeryville, CA. RenderMan provides the interface from modeling programs to RenderMan-compliant rendering software ...

which is something Pixar developed to allow for the interchange of 3D data. “Universal Scene Description was invented at Pixar and is the technological foundation of our state-of-the-art ...

It had ridiculous amounts of geometry to render each character,’” says AMD executive James Knight. “Previous to AMD and Supermicro getting together, they couldn’t have done it.” ...