Pixar’s Art Challenge Highlights IEEE’s Electrical Science Roots

Photo: Pixar’s own Pixar Image Computer (P-2) May 6, 2011. Photo credit: Geltoob – transferred from Wikipedia to Wikimedia. Public Domain. Article by Robert Schneider. IEEE Spectrum – July 10, 2025. Coming Soon: RenderMan Art Challenge.

IEEE and Pixar Animation Studios’ collaboration on the RenderMan SciTech Art Challenge last year broke entry records for the annual competition, tripling the usual number of submissions. Nearly 200 artists, engineers, and enthusiasts competed to demonstrate shading, lighting, rendering, and compositing techniques using RenderMan tools. The contest was held from 26 August to 26 November 2024. […]

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