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 ...

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 ...

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” ...