Target has released a Merida doll who, with her glossy, wavy hair and dainty features, looks more like a Barbie than the feisty Scottish princess from Pixar's Brave. The unrecognizable toy is being ...

If you read this blog regularly, you know how having a curly-haired daughter has changed my feelings about hair texture in this world. More specifically, I wish there were more celebration of natural ...

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 ...

Move over, Buzz and Woody. Swim aside, Nemo. A boy's club no more, the pantheon of Pixar heroes is making room for a lady. Meet Merida, an ancient princess for the 21st century. With her fiery red ...

Today marks the opening of “Brave,” the latest Disney Pixar creation whose Scottish princess-cum-archery expert Merida has the fiery Titian curls of a young Julia Roberts, circa “Pretty Woman” And the ...

In the decades-long quest to perfect animated hair, the makers of Merida's wild locks in Pixar's Brave have gotten one step closer to perfection. Hair has presented a particular problem for animators ...

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 ...

“Our fate lives within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it,” Merida valiantly proclaims in Walt Disney’s 2012 Pixar-animated film Brave. But Merida’s bold notions on fate fell short this ...

Move over, Buzz and Woody. Swim aside, Nemo. A boy's club no more, the pantheon of Pixar heroes is making room for a lady. Meet Merida, an ancient princess for the 21st century. With her fiery red ...