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Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist and animator who served as the co-founder of Pixar and the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. [3][4][5] He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics, including the 2019 ACM Turing Award.
In 1979, Catmull moved west to take a job with Lucasfilm Ltd. in northern California. Named after its founder, noted Star Wars director George Lucas, the studio was also interested in creating an entirely computer–animated feature film, and Catmull was hired to set up this division.
Oct 24, 2018 · Animation pioneer Ed Catmull, 73, Pixar co-founder and president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, will retire at the end of the year and serve as consultant through next July, marking...
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May 5, 2021 · Catmull, Steve Jobs, and John Lasseter pioneered a new generation of animation and forever changed the face of filmmaking. Here's how they brought inanimate objects to life with their own personalities, emotions, and moods.
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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
Sep 16, 2024 · Not only has Catmull [BS’69, physics] won five Academy Awards, he’s also received an ACM A.M. Turing Award — considered the Nobel Prize of computing — has rubbed shoulders with George Lucas and Steve Jobs, co-founded Pixar and co-created the first computer-animated film (and the technology that made it possible).
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Catmull accepted the position and built a strong team of researchers. Schure’s motivation in funding the lab was to apply computer animation to expedite the production of animated films, beginning with the feature length film Tubby the Tuba (1975).
