Math=Magic: How Science Powers Pixar’s Animation
Release Date
2012
Film Synopsis
Tony DeRose, senior scientist and research group lead at Pixar Animation Studios, delivers an illustrated lecture on the extraordinary contribution of mathematics to animated films.
With the aid of numerous clips and examples from such Pixar productions as Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Monsters, Inc., and Brave, speaker Tony DeRose demonstrates how the films' simulation of faces, hands, clothing, and hair, as well as their realistic rendering of light, are constantly advanced through inventions in computer technology, physics, geometry, and applied math.