Here is another video in our series of John Lasseter answering questions:

Via. Upcoming Pixar The official pages for Disney•Pixar on Facebook and Twitter asked us, the fans, what questions we would ask John Lasseter if we came across him. They’ve taken the large amount of queries and chosen a select few to actually ask in the form of video blogs. Below you’ll see the first in [...]

Some news to come out of the San Diego Comic Con this week. Lego has announced a new line of Toy Story Mini Figures. Here are some photos of the new figures:

Via. CNET If you want to consider a difficult computational problem, try thinking of the algorithms required to animate more than 10,000 helium balloons, each with its own string, but each also interdependent on the rest, which are collectively hoisting aloft a small house. That was the challenge the production team at Pixar faced when [...]

Here it is, the long awaited Toy Story 3 Trailer:

Via. Digitaltrends.com Researchers have come up with a new optical recording method that could see 1.6TB – or 300 DVDs – fitting on a single disc. Researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have come up with a new optical recording method that could allow a giant 1.6 terabytes of information – the equivalent [...]

As the title says: More videos below the cut.

Via. Disney 23 DISNEY’S D23 FAN COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES SUMMER 2009 SPECIAL EVENTS CALENDAR Unique Experiences Created Exclusively for Charter Members of “The Official Community for Disney Fans” BURBANK, CALIF – May 14, 2009 – Disney’s HYPERLINK “http://www.disney.com/d23″ D23: The Official Community for Disney Fans today announced its Summer 2009 Special Events Calendar. From very special [...]

Here is the official Princess and the Frog trailer:

Via. The Hollywood Reporter Woody and Buzz are heading north. To accommodate a growing slate of nonfeature projects, Disney and Pixar will launch an animation studio in the fall in Vancouver. The focus will be on Pixar’s legacy characters, including Buzz and Woody from the “Toy Story” films and Lightning McQueen and Mater from “Cars.” [...]