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Early in his life, Catmull found inspiration in Disney movies, including Peter Pan and Pinocchio, and wanted to be an animator; however, after finishing high school, he had no idea how to get there as there were no animation schools around that time.
From an early age, he dreamed of a career with the Walt Disney Company, the world's leading feature–film animation studio for much of the twentieth century, but realized as he came of age that perhaps he lacked the artistic ability to land a job with the prestigious Disney corps of animators.
Catmull: Well, it was crossing my mind. At the time, I wanted to be an animator and an artist. But, I took chemistry and physics and math and I did fairly well on those. Although, because of my schedule I had to learn algebra on my own through the university home study program. So, I took advanced algebra there.
In 1971, as part of a course in computer graphics taught by Ivan Sutherland, Catmull created and animated a model of his left hand in what is considered one of the earliest examples of 3D shaded computer animation, leading to Catmull’s first academic publication in the Proceedings of the ACM annual conference.
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Computer–animation pioneer. Began career as director of the Computer Graphics Lab, 1975; vice president of Computer Division, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1979–86; co–founder and chief technical officer, Pixar Animation Studios, 1986&mdash, president, 1986–95, 2001—.
Edwin E. Catmull heads Pixar Animation Studios, the California–based enterprise that pioneered digital animation for film. The company, which made the hit movies Toy Story and Finding Nemo, has become one of the entertainmentindustry's surprise financial success stories, but bringing computer–drawn figures to life on the big screen proved a greater...
BusinessWeek,June 30, 2003, p. 68. Guardian(London, England), October 11, 2003, p. 34. PC,November 15, 1998, p. 98. Time,September 1, 1986, p. 66. Variety,July 20, 1998, p. 32. —CarolBrennan
Early in his life, Catmull found inspiration in Disney movies, including Peter Pan and Pinocchio, and wanted to be an animator; however, after finishing high school, he had no idea how to get there as there were no animation schools around that time.
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Oct 17, 2024 · Dr. Catmull founded three of the leading centers of computer graphics research - the computer graphics laboratory at the New York Institute of Technology, the computer division of Lucasfilm Ltd. and Pixar Animation Studios.
