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 ...

latest film “Brave” in an official capacity. A self-described “nerd” for everything Pict or Celt, the CalArts-trained animator is known as Pixar’s resident Scottish expert. He’s also a skilled archer ...

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 ...

Pixar's first ode to girl power not only changed directors midstream but also forged a new animation system called Presto. By Carolyn Giardina Former Tech Editor One day when his three boys were ...

The only problem is ... Disney never updated their Princess Collection site with the new look to begin with. The studio insists the Merida images used on the Princess site have always been of the ...

Fans of the more scrappy, less skinny Merida were incensed: So far 168,881 people have signed a Change.org petition asking Disney CEO Robert Iger to ditch the new version. “By making her skinnier, ...