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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.
Oct 24, 2018 · Ed Catmull: Retiring Animation Pioneer Took Pixar and Disney to Infinity and Beyond. As Yoda to John Lasseter's Luke Skywalker, Catmull spearheaded the rise of Pixar and Disney animation, a...
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In the 1950s, young Ed Catmull loved Walt Disney animated films such as Pinocchio and Peter Pan. He dreamed of becoming an animator, and he filled up sketchbooks and created his own flipbooks. At Salt Lake City’s Granite High School in the 1960s, he took every art class he could.
Sep 16, 2024 · Animation fascinated him, but there was no college for it. So when he started his Bachelor’s degree at University of Utah, he fell back on science. “There were no tools for it, for animation, so I switched over into physics when I went to college,” Catmull said.
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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
Apr 8, 2019 · But Ed Catmull, 74, has the condition aphantasia, in which people cannot visualise mental images at all. And in a surprising survey of his former employees, so do some of the world's best...
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an animator. I took a lot of drawing classes. All the art classes at school, everything they had. And was even selected as the state's representative to get the art scholarship and so forth. So, my path was trying to become an animator. The problem is: When I graduated from high school I didn't know where to go. There were no schools for animation.
