EMERYVILLE, Calif. (KGO) -- Pixar created films like "Toy Story" and "Monsters Inc." but the latest production from the Emeryville-based animation studios stars a different cast of characters, ones ...

July 26, Thursday, 7-9 p.m. -- Tony DeRose, senior scientist and research group leader at Pixar Animation Studios, will speak about "Math in the Movies." He will discuss how advances in math and ...

Kids today don't know how good they have it. On August 27, Khan Academy launched Pixar in a Box, the online education platform's newest partner-driven course. Using resources provided by the animation ...

Computers don't make movies. People do. And those people need to know their algebra, trigonometry and physics. Observe a blade of grass in Pixar's "A Bug's Life." It doesn't curve on its own. To do ...

He can’t take us to infinity and beyond for real, but Buzz Lightyear will be happy to greet us on the fourth floor of the Science Museum of the Minnesota this summer. Buzz, Dory and their ...

Computer animation is one of those delightful intersections of science and art, but when we’re cooing over concept art and character designs, it’s easy to forget all the math that goes into bringing ...

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Tony DeRose, a resident computer nerd at Pixar, said today that much of their work while creating new films requires the creation of new math. The problem is that human skin, for example, goes through ...

It can be easy to think that you need math only to do your algebra or geometry homework or if you have a job as an engineer. But, in fact, math pops up everywhere – even in the soap bubbles in your ...