Jessie Plascencia, a 22-year-old animation student, has big dreams to work at Pixar one day. So she's using chalk to draw famous Pixar characters in front of the company's headquarters. Plascencia's ...

Bay Area artist Matthew Luhn recounts his days drawing for Pixar and “The Simpsons.” While he may be best known as an animator, after working on “The Simpsons” and spending two decades at Pixar, ...

In 1997, when Mark Walsh was an eager student graduating from a California arts college course in animation, he was dreaming of a job at Disney. "When I applied, they said you have to work your way up ...

Bud Luckey knew he was in a young guy's game about 10 years ago, after fellow animators at now-defunct Colossal Pictures gathered together to screen their career highlights. When Luckey pulled out the ...

When Pixar prexy Ed Catmull delivers his keynote at the Siggraph computer graphics confab Aug. 11, expect word of a sequel to an Academy Award-winning Pixar title. No, not “Ratatouille Too” or “More ...

In its 19-year history, Pixar Animation Studios has largely avoided making sequels — of the 14 films it’s released since 1995, only four feature the same characters in follow-ups. In addition to a ...

Lately, Pixar and Disney seem to be making nice. Relatively speaking. The word from Disney prexy and CEO-elect Bob Iger, speaking at the Deutsche Bank conference in New York on Tuesday, is that the ...