Archived News

Below is an archive of all news feed items:

2024.11.27
Moana 2 is out in theaters!
2024.08.09
Main trailer for Moana 2 is released!
2024.08.09
Zootopia 2 announced for 2025 and Frozen 3 announced for 2027!
2024.07.25
I will be presenting our paper "Cache Points for Production-Scale Occlusion-Aware Many-Lights Sampling and Volumetric Scattering" at DigiPro 2024. The paper is now available online!
2024.06.10
The Hyperion team has a a talk accepted to SIGGRAPH 2024 and a paper accepted to DigiPro 2024!
2024.06.07
New blog post about porting Takua Renderer to Windows on Arm.
2024.05.29
New teaser trailer for Moana 2 is released!
2024.02.07
Our 2024 film, Moana 2, is announced!
2023.11.22
Wish is out in theaters!
2023.11.20
My entry to Pixar's RenderMan 'Lost Things' Art Challenge got an honorable mention!
2023.10.16
Once Upon A Studio, celebrating 100 years of Disney Animation, is now on Disney+.
2023.09.27
Main trailer for Wish is released.
2023.08.08
Zack Misso is presenting our paper "Progressive Null-tracking for Volumetric Rendering" at SIGGRAPH 2023. The paper is now available online!
2023.05.10
The Hyperion team has a technical paper and a talk accepted to SIGGRAPH 2023!
2023.04.27
Teaser trailer for Wish is released.
2023.01.17
I made a piece with Apple for the new MacBook Pro with M2 Pro and M2 Max.
2022.11.29
My entry to Pixar's RenderMan 'NASA Exploration' Art Challenge got an honorable mention!
2022.11.23
Strange World is out in theaters!
2022.11.09
Zootopia+ is now out on Disney+!
2022.09.21
Main trailer for Strange World is released!
2022.09.09
Our 2023 film, Wish, is announced!
2022.08.09
Corey Butler and I are presenting our talk "Encanto - Let's Talk About Bruno's Visions" at SIGGRAPH 2022. The talk is now available online!
2022.06.29
Baymax! is now out on Disney+!
2022.06.06
New teaser trailer for Strange World is released!
2022.05.10
The Hyperion team has three talks accepted to SIGGRAPH 2022!
2021.12.09
Our Fall 2022 film, Strange World, is announced!
2021.11.24
Encanto is out in theaters!
2021.11.16
My entry to Pixar's RenderMan 'The Iconoclasts' Art Challenge got an honorable mention!
2021.10.25
New blog post about the Apple M1 Max chip.
2021.09.29
New main trailer for Encanto is released!
2021.09.07
New blog post comparing SIMD programming on x86-64 and arm64.
2021.08.06
Our SIGGRAPH 2021 Talk "Unbiased Emission and Scattering Importance Sampling For Heterogeneous Volumes" is now available online!
2021.07.31
New blog post about porting Takua Renderer to arm64, Part 2. This is the second part in a two-part series.
2021.07.08
New teaser trailer for Encanto is released!
2021.06.03
New blog post about porting Takua Renderer to arm64, Part 1. This is the first part in a two-part series.
2021.05.18
Site and blog updated with responsive design. Here's a blog post about how I updated the design.
2021.04.30
We have a talk accepted to SIGGRAPH 2021!
2021.04.12
New blog post about making my entry for Pixar's RenderMan 'Magic Shop' Art Challenge.
2021.03.05
Raya and the Last Dragon is out on Disney+ Premiere Access and in theaters!
2021.01.26
New main trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon is released!
2020.12.14
My entry to Pixar's RenderMan 'Magic Shop' Art Challenge got third place!
2020.12.10
Our Fall 2021 film, Encanto, is announced!
2020.11.23
I was on this week's episode of CG Garage to talk about Hyperion and production rendering and other stuff.
2020.10.21
New teaser trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon is released!
2020.10.20
I got interviewed as a RenderMan featured artist.
2020.07.31
New blog post about making my entry for Pixar's RenderMan 'Shipshape' Art Challenge.
2020.07.10
My teammate David Adler and I were on this week's episode of CppCast to talk about rendering and C++.
2020.07.07
My entry to Pixar's RenderMan 'Shipshape' Art Challenge won first place!
2020.06.26
Watch Into the Unknown: Making Frozen 2 on Disney+!
2020.05.12
Disney Animation made 20(!!!) shorts working from home, all using Hyperion! Watch At Home With Olaf on Youtube.
2020.02.09
New blog post comparing shadow terminator techniques in Takua Renderer.
2020.01.24
Disney Animation's experimental shorts program, Short Circuit, is released on Disney+. All of these were rendered using Hyperion!
2019.11.30
New blog post about Pixar's 'Woodville' RenderMan Art Challenge. My entry got an honorable mention!
2019.11.22
Frozen 2 is out in theaters!
2019.09.23
Final trailer for Frozen 2 is released!
2019.08.24
Our next film, Raya and the Last Dragon, is announced!
2019.08.01
Our SIGGRAPH 2019 Talk "Taming the Shadow Terminator" is now available online!
2019.07.30
New blog post listing Hyperion-related publications.
2019.06.11
New main trailer for Frozen 2 is released!
2019.05.21
New blog post about priority-based nested dielectrics.
2019.04.19
We have a talk accepted to SIGGRAPH 2019!
2019.02.13
New teaser trailer for Frozen 2 is released!
2018.11.21
Ralph Breaks the Internet is out in theaters!
2018.10.25
New blog post about mipmapping and bidirectional path tracing.
2018.10.06
I am now married to Harmony M. Li!
2018.08.17
New blog post about our "Design and Evolution of Hyperion" TOG paper.
2018.08.01
Our ACM Transactions on Graphics paper, "The Design and Evolution of Disney's Hyperion Renderer", is now posted online!
2018.07.03
New blog post about Disney Animation's newly released data sets.
2018.07.03
Disney Animation releases two production-quality data sets for rendering research!
2018.06.04
New main trailer for Ralph Breaks the Internet is released!
2018.02.28
New teaser trailer for Ralph Breaks the Internet is released!
2018.02.27
We have a paper accepted to ACM Transactions on Graphics!
2018.02.23
New blog post about difficult interior light transport.
2018.01.12
Addendum to Multiple Importance Sampling blog post.
2017.12.03
New blog post about rendering Lamborghinis.
2017.11.22
Olaf's Frozen Adventure is out in theaters with Pixar's Coco!
2017.10.26
Added slides from Peter Kutz's SIGGRAPH 2017 presentation of our Spectral and Decomposition Tracking work.
2017.07.30
Course notes for our part of the SIGGRAPH 2017 Course "Path Tracing in Production, Part 1" are now online!
2017.07.25
New blog post about the process of writing our SIGGRAPH 2017 paper, "Spectral and Decomposition Tracking for Rendering Heterogeneous Volumes".
2017.06.13
New teaser trailer for Olaf's Frozen Adventure is released!
2017.05.14
New blog post about subdivision/displacement.
2017.05.04
Our SIGGRAPH 2017 paper, "Spectral and Decomposition Tracking for Rendering Heterogeneous Volumes", is now posted online!
2017.04.28
Addendum to PBRT3 blog post.
2017.03.27
We have a paper conditionally accepted to SIGGRAPH 2017!
2016.11.23
Moana is out in theaters!
2016.10.10
Addendum to pathtracing Minecraft blog post.
2016.09.30
New blog post about PBRT 3rd Edition.
2016.09.15
New main trailer for Moana is released!
2016.07.22
New blog post about pathtracing Minecraft.
2016.06.12
New teaser trailer for Moana is released!
2016.04.08
Addendum to blog image policy.
2016.03.04
Zootopia is out in theaters!
2015.12.31
New main trailer for Zootopia is released!
2015.07.27
I have started working at Walt Disney Animation Studios as part of the Hyperion Renderer team!