In the decades-long quest to perfect animated hair, the makers of Merida's wild locks in Pixar's Brave have gotten one step closer to perfection. Hair has presented a particular problem for animators ...

Teenage girls and their moms. Talk about issues. That biblical-Shakespearean-surface-of-the-sun confluence of emotions is the subtext of "Brave," Pixar's 13th full-length animated feature. The ...

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 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 ...