Pixar Research Group Home Page

The primary mission of the Pixar Research Group is to develop new technology for use in our films. We are also developing new methods for exporting our characters to other media, such as games and animatronic robots. More information can be found in our Online Library.

The group consists of award winning researchers working in areas such as rendering, physical simulation, animation, geometric modeling, rigging, and user interfaces. More...

News and Highlights

• Intern Kenrick Ken's paper about selection on a multi-touch display has won a best student paper award at Graphics Interface 2009. Read the paper...
  
  
• Tony DeRose will chair the SIGGRAPH 2010 papers program.
  
  
• Disney announces the creation of new research labs in Pittsburgh and Zurich. More...
  
  
• Rob Cook will be a Featured Speaker at the first SIGGRAPH Asia conference, December 10-13 in Singapore. More...
  
  
• Researcher Michael Kass worked with a number of other Pixarians and Walt Disney Imagineers to bring the Wall-E robot to life. More...