What did we really learn from our high school math classes, and how much have we used those learned skills in the real world? While I haven't used much of my advanced math education in my film ...

It probably won’t surprise you that Pixar uses some good old fashioned mathematics in the 3D animation process. What might surprise you is just how much they use math to ensure that their characters ...

Kids today don't know how good they have it. On August 27, Khan Academy launched Pixar in a Box, the online education platform's newest partner-driven course. Using resources provided by the animation ...

Computer animation is one of those delightful intersections of science and art, but when we’re cooing over concept art and character designs, it’s easy to forget all the math that goes into bringing ...

July 26, Thursday, 7-9 p.m. -- Tony DeRose, senior scientist and research group leader at Pixar Animation Studios, will speak about "Math in the Movies." He will discuss how advances in math and ...

If you're one of those students, current or former, who always wondered why it might be good to learn so much math, there's finally at least one reasonable answer. A couple videos have surfaced online ...

Tony DeRose wanders between rows at New York’s Museum of Mathematics. In a brightly-colored button-up T-shirt that may be Pixar standard issue, he doesn’t look like the stereotype of a scientist. He ...

Sure, high school Carolyn, you don’t need math for anything in the “real world.” But what if you don’t want to live in the real world? What if you want a rad career at Pixar? What then, you ...

EMERYVILLE, Calif. (KGO) -- Pixar created films like "Toy Story" and "Monsters Inc." but the latest production from the Emeryville-based animation studios stars a different cast of characters, ones ...

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Tony DeRose, a resident computer nerd at Pixar, said today that much of their work while creating new films requires the creation of new math. The problem is that human skin, for example, goes through ...