In the decades-long quest to perfect animated hair, the makers of Merida's wild locks in Pixar's Brave have gotten one step closer to perfection. Hair has presented a particular problem for animators ...

Working at Pixar combines two of May's favorite things: science and art. When he was growing up in Mansfield, his dad was one of the first people to purchase a newfangled personal computer in the ...

Teenage girls and their moms. Talk about issues. That biblical-Shakespearean-surface-of-the-sun confluence of emotions is the subtext of "Brave," Pixar's 13th full-length animated feature. The ...

Pixar developed a new software to animate Merida's hair in Brave, creating a realistic and iconic look for the character. The animation team studied real-life curly hair to ensure the hair movements ...

Trying to curl hair into perfect spiral curls is difficult enough to do in real life. But for the team of scientists and artists at Pixar, the quest to create a wild mane of curls for Merida, the ...

Movie princesses usually wear puffy dresses, have perfect hair and wait around for Prince Charming to save them from an evil witch. And then there’s Merida. She’s wild. Her hair is a mess. And she has ...