Disney Research is presenting software at ACM SIGGRAPH 2013 that automatically generates the complex gear assembly required to drive the motions of mechanized characters.

The real-life models that helped to inspire some of Walt Disney's best-loved and most iconic characters. By DAVID MCCORMACK . Published: 01:54 EDT, 27 March 2013 | Updated: 17:16 EDT, 27 March 2013 ...

Disney Research has developed an algorithm which can generate 3D computer models from 2D images in great detail, sufficient, it says, to meet the needs of video game and film makers.

Disney unveiled the models at a preview to D23 Expo, a three-day, biennial fan event that begins Friday in Anaheim, California. “This is the most ambitious land we’ve built to date,” Bob ...