Pixar developed a new software to animate Merida's hair in Brave, creating a realistic and iconic look for the character. The animation team studied real-life curly hair to ensure the hair movements ...

Trying to curl hair into perfect spiral curls is difficult enough to do in real life. But for the team of scientists and artists at Pixar, the quest to create a wild mane of curls for Merida, the ...

Merida, the fiery Scottish princess voiced by Kelly Macdonald in Pixar’s new animated adventure “Brave,” belongs to the same category as Dora the Explorer, Nickelodeon’s bicultural cartoon heroine. If ...

Rosie McClelland (front left) and Sophia Grace Brownlee (front right), TV personalities from "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," pose with the newest Disney Princess, the brave and passionate Merida, and the ...