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John Whitney Sr. (1917–1995) was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. [1] In the 1940s and 1950s, he and his brother James created a series of experimental films made with a custom-built device based on old anti-aircraft analog computers (Kerrison Predictors) connected by servomechanisms to control the motion of lights ...
Box office. $394.4 million [3] Toy Story is a 1995 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The first installment in the franchise of the same name, it was the first entirely computer-animated feature film, as well as the first feature film from Pixar. The film was directed by John Lasseter (in ...
First CGI-animated series to use Cel-shaded designs and backgrounds mixed with 2-D elements. Shrek 2: First feature film to use global illumination. [45] Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: First movie with all-CGI backgrounds and live-actors. [46] The Polar Express: First computer-animated film to be created with motion capture. Chicken ...
The Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) was a proprietary collection of software, scanning camera systems, servers, networked computer workstations, and custom desks developed by The Walt Disney Company and Pixar in the late 1980s. Although outmoded by the mid-2000s, it succeeded in reducing labor costs for ink and paint and post ...
Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), [ 6 ] sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company. The studio's current production logo features a scene from its first synchronized sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie (1928).
Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991) (the first animated film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture), Aladdin (1992) and The Lion King (1994) successively broke box-office records. Pocahontas (1995) opened to mixed reviews from critics but was a financial success, it received two Academy Awards and was well received by viewers.
Ratatouille (/ ˌ r æ t ə ˈ t uː i / RAT-ə-TOO-ee) is a 2007 American animated comedy-drama film [3] produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The eighth film produced by Pixar, it was written and directed by Brad Bird and produced by Brad Lewis, from an original idea by Jan Pinkava, [4] who was credited for conceiving the film's story with Bird and Jim Capobianco.
Disney Digital 3-D. Disney Digital 3-D is a brand name used by The Walt Disney Company to describe three-dimensional films made and released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures mostly under the Walt Disney Pictures label and shown exclusively using digital projection. Disney Digital 3-D in itself is not a presentation or a production format ...