Cars (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

Thrilling in its shiny surface detail, the NASCAR scene stretches before you like an anthropomorphized vista: this is the immediate future of animation, and Pixar, recently and loudly sold to Disney, means to own it. [9 June 2006]

Toy Story: 10th Anniversary Edition (1995)

By Jesse Hassenger

Ten years on, much of Pixar's Toy Story, the first computer-animated feature film, is as sweet and smart as ever. [5 October 2005]

Toy Story 2 (1999)

By Jonathan Beller

Toy Story 2 (1999)

By P. Nelson Reinsch

Near the end of the film The Matrix, Neo (Keanu Reeves) begins to understand his own power. When he realizes that everything he is seeing is a computer program, the payoff shot for this knowledge shows the screen filled with the 1s and 0s which make up the objects and people previously seen. The shot is stunning, and lays bare not only the program within the film's narrative universe, but also the computer work necessary to create the effects in The Matrix.

Short Ends and Leader: 3D Provides Added Dimension to Already Terrific ‘Toy’ Stories