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Pixar was sold to Walt Disney Studios in 2006 where Catmull was made CEO of the newly-formed Walt Disney Animation Studios. In this oral history, Catmulll describes his long career and ...
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Discover the inspiring story of Ed Catmull, the art school dropout who co-founded Pixar and transformed the world of animation.
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In this exclusive Journey Further Book Club interview, Ed Catmull, the co-founder and former president of Pixar, shares his insights on creativity, leadershi...
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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.
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.
Sep 16, 2024 · ‘It was amazing’: How the University of Utah shaped Catmull’s career. As a kid, Catmull balanced his interests in both art and science. He never saw the subjects as being inharmonious. “Growing up, I didn’t know that (science and art) were considered to be not compatible with each other.
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.
