Serving as Head of Story at Pixar Animation Studios, Kristen Lester recently got to write and direct her first animated short with Purl, a timely and topical short inspired by Lester’s challenging ...

Kristen Lester's Siggraph award winner 'Purl' was inspired by her experience of being a female in animation. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Siggraph, the annual confab dedicated to computer graphics, ...

A new short film from Pixar’s SparkShorts program should be the new workplace sensitivity training video for certain startups and corporations. Purl follows a plucky ball of yarn on her first day at a ...

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The SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival announced the award winners in its three competitive categories, as well as the lineup of 24 short films, breakdowns, scientific visualizations, advertisements ...

Pixar has debuted its first short film under its nascent animation program SparkShorts, a new initiative at the studio aimed at cultivating independent projects from the company’s own artists and ...