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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.

2. www.notablebiographies.com › Catmull-Edwin-EEdwin E. Catmull Biography - life, children, name, story ...

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   Edwin E. Catmull Biography. 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.

3. amturing.acm.org › award_winners › catmull_1244219Edwin Catmull - A.M. Turing Award Laureate

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   Catmull was born Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1945 but moved to Utah when he was six months old. His parents both worked in education, and his early childhood was heavily influenced by the growing postwar culture of science and technology along with the early animation of Walt Disney.

4. archive.computerhistory.org › resources › accessOral History of Edwin 'Ed' Catmull; 2013-03-01

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   Edwin “Ed” Catmull: My father was a Marine. He met my mother in San Francisco. And they later got married and then he went off to fight in Iwo Jima and I was born in West Virginia. But, my mother--- when my father returned, and my mother and my father came to Utah when I was 2 years old.

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   Edwin Catmull was born on March 31, 1945, in Parkersburg, West Virginia. His family later moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where his father first served as principal of Granite High School and then of Taylorsville High School.

6. kids.kiddle.co › Edwin_CatmullEdwin Catmull facts for kids - Kids encyclopedia

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   Jul 1, 2024 · 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. He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics, including the 2019 ACM Turing Award.

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   How old was Catmull when he was a child?

   • Catmull was born Parkersburg, West Virginia in 1945 but moved to Utah when he was six months old. His parents both worked in education, and his early childhood was heavily influenced by the growing postwar culture of science and technology along with the early animation of Walt Disney.

   Edwin Catmull - A.M. Turing Award Laureate

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   How long did it take Catmull to become a teacher?

   • It took approximately 20 years for Edwin Catmull to become a teacher. He was born in West Virginia in 1945, but grew up with his four siblings in Utah, where his father was a school principal.

   Edwin E. Catmull Biography - life, children, name, story, history

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   How did Catmull become an animator?

   • In high school Catmull wanted to work as an animator, but realizing that there were no educational paths to a career in animation in the United States at that time, he pivoted to work in physics and computer science, receiving two Bachelor’s of Science degrees in 1969 from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

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   Who is Edwin Catmull?

   • Edwin E. Catmull is the head of Pixar Animation Studios, the California-based enterprise that pioneered digital animation for film. He leads the company, which has produced hit movies like Toy Story and Finding Nemo, and has become one of the entertainment industry's leading innovators.

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   Why did Catmull start a new renderer?

   • Catmull: Initially since we were wrote a renderer, we knew that we had to solve the motion blur problem. So we started a project to come up with a new renderer. And the thing I believed at the time was that if we’re going to do something that was big, we had to start from scratch and rethink it.

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   Did Ed Catmull say'my mind's eye is blind'?

   • "Aphantasia: Ex-Pixar chief Ed Catmull says 'my mind's eye is blind' ". BBC News. Retrieved April 15, 2022. ^ "Three Pixar execs get special Oscars". San Francisco Chronicle. February 1, 1996. Retrieved March 12, 2009. ^ Moody, Annemarie (January 6, 2009). "Academy to Honor Ed Catmull with Gordon E. Sawyer Oscar". Animation World Network.

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8. continuum.utah.edu › features › the-imaginerThe Imaginer | Continuum - University of Utah

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   Catmull BS’69 PhD’74 was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, while his father was a Marine deployed in World War II’s Pacific theater. When Ed was 2 years old, with the war over and his father safely returned, the family moved to Salt Lake City, where Ed and his four siblings grew up.