Philosophically, Pixar and Disney Animation do the same things.

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Today, says deGraf, the cost to do a total computer animation of Max would be about the same as hiring a human and creating the effects around him.

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Not long before that I had a great conversation with Bryan Robbins who uses the Kinect to do motion capture for his animation work.

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"You get a state of suspended animation and the creatures do not pass away, and that's the basis of what we see as an alternative way to think about critical care medicine, " Roth says.

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So all of the animation effects that you can do in web apps using CSS3 and JavaScript are ways of transforming 2D documents.

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For one thing, you can do more with less when it comes to animation.

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In his view, the uncanny valley effect has to do with a mismatch in features of a single animation or robot, with some parts appearing much more humanlike than others.

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Rather than leaving hands-on work to underlings, as many executives do at his stage, he continues to use new design and animation programs to generate creative products like print, digital and broadcast ads and websites.

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While most startups would do a design mockup and translate that into engineering, Path focused on a process from the animation world.

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DreamWorks Animation has a long-term deal in place with Netflix which means Fox does not have to do anything to create a digital deal for DreamWorks.

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