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Published online 12 August 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1034
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Disney backs research centres
New facilities in Zurich and Pittsburgh hope to develop film technologies for the next animated blockbuster.
Movies such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo revolutionized animated cinema, but the Walt Disney Company now hopes that the appliance of science will help them to produce even greater cinematic spectaculars in the future.
The company has announced the foundation of two Disney Research labs to develop new film techniques: one at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich) and another at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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