With exaggerated character expressions and cartoonish backgrounds, Pixar’s new movie Luca is an outlier for the studio. The movie tells the tale of two young sea monsters who venture to a human town ...

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Pixar's Luca is the perfect summer film to dive into with the refreshing blue depths of the ocean, to the sun-soaked landscapes of the scenic Italian coast. Pulling deep from his childhood, the story ...

The sea monsters required special attention and lots of retooling, especially for the crucial transformations, which became an animated sleight of hand. For Pixar director Enrico Casarosa, “Luca” ...

Pixar is no stranger to the challenges of animating underwater worlds. The animation giant pioneered many of the technologies that made it possible to do at the level of veracity available today. They ...

SAN ANTONIO — For its next act (or 24th, to be exact), the massive animation house Pixar recently released “Luca,” a coming-of-age adventure set in the colorful Italian town of Portorosso that is more ...