stephens@latcs1.oz.au (Philip J Stephens) (03/08/91)
Greetings! I am an honours student embarking on a thesis in three-dimensional computer animation. Just recently I had the chance to see "The second Animation Celebration" movie, which featured two amazing shorts by a company calling themselves Pixar entitled "Knick Knack" and "Tin Toy". What I am after are articles in major computer graphics journals that may have being published by the creators of Pixar. Unfortunately I do not know where to start, so I thought maybe some kind soul might point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance. </\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\></\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\> < Philip J. Stephens >< "Many views yield the truth." > < Hons. student, Computer Science >< "Therefore, be not alone." > < La Trobe University, Melbourne >< - Prime Song of the viggies, from > < AUSTRALIA >< THE ENGIMA SCORE by Sheri S Tepper > <\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/><\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/>
grusin@tramp.Colorado.EDU (GRUSIN MICHAEL) (03/11/91)
...check back issues of "Computer Graphics", published by the SIGGRAPH (Special-Interest-Group-on-computer-GRAPHics) division of the ACM (Association of Computing Machinery). The wonderful folks at PIXAR have probably written quite a few articles there in the past. You should be able to find back issues at your nearest school of engineering library. (SIGGRAPH ain't a bad thing to be a member of either; you get the magazine and other benefits, and it's cheap if you're a student =). Also look for references (books & articles) on "Renderman", which is the PIXAR-developed computer-rendering environment now being made available to the rest of us. They used it (or were at least developing it) to make "Tin Toy" and the snowman one. Amazing stuff! - Mike