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Apr 8, 2019 · The former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios says he has a "blind mind's eye". Most people can close their eyes and conjure up images inside their head such as counting sheep or...
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Jun 10, 2021 · Ed Catmull, who co-founded Pixar and helped make huge advances in 3-D animation, announced “my mind’s eye is blind” a few years ago, and even found other animators at Pixar with aphantasia. He told the BBC that aphantasia helps clear up “some misconceptions about creativity”:
Aphantasia: Ex-Pixar chief Ed Catmull says 'my mind's eye is blind'. This is so amazing to me. I have been struggling being creative lately, wondering if it's even possible. This article gives me hope! And in a surprising survey of his former employees, so do some of the world's best animators.
Jan 21, 2024 · Aphantasia is the name given to the state of having no visual internal world, to be “blind” in the mind’s eye. I first came across the term in 2019, in an interview with the legendary Ed Catmull of Pixar, discussing this condition: The former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios says he has a "blind mind's eye".
Dec 16, 2019 · “It is only by a figure of speech that I can describe my recollection of a scene as a ‘mental image’ which I can ‘see’ with my ‘mind’s eye,'” one respondent said.
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Jun 21, 2021 · When aphantasia was named and publicised, a number of creative practitioners – artists, designers and architects – contacted the researchers to say that they too had no “mind’s eye”.
Aphantasia: Ex-Pixar chief Ed Catmull says ‘my mind’s eye is blind’ But Ed Catmull, 74, has the condition aphantasia, in which people cannot visualise mental images at all. Image copyright Walt Disney, Glen Keane . Image caption. Glen Keane’s early sketch of Ariel, the Little Mermaid. Pixar findings. Image copyright Shutterstock
