Computer animation has come a long way since the first Toy Story movie. Last week, Pixar offered a rare behind-the-scenes look at the sophisticated system used on Brave and Monsters University.

Although movie and game producers can now create computer-animated images of just about anything, the sounds made by those onscreen items still typically consist of recordings of real-world ...

This simple animation of a satellite orbiting a sphere may be the very first computer-generated movie.Ed Zajac created the simulation at Bell Labs in an effort to better understand the forces at ...