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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 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.
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.
Edwin Catmull’s pioneering work in the field of computer graphics and animation underpins the film industry as we know it today. Catmull was born Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1945 but moved to Utah when he was six months old.
Early in life, he found inspiration in Disney movies such as Peter Pan and Pinocchio and dreamed of becoming a feature film animator. He even made primitive animation using so-called flip-books. However, he assessed his chances realistically and decided that his talents lay elsewhere.
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,...
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Edwin E. Catmull. President of Pixar Animation Studios. Born March 31, 1945, in Parkersburg, WV; married Susan; children: five. Education: University of Utah, B.S. (computer science), B.S. (physics), Ph.D.