Posted on: August 5, 2009
Posted in: Catmull, Ed, Creativity, Imagination, Reward, Risk, Failure & Reward
Ed Catmull worked for George Lucas at Lucasfilm where he helped develop digital image compositing technology used to combine multiple images. He co-founded Pixar Animation Studios along with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter. Ed was a key developer of the RenderMan rendering system used in films such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Catmull has been president of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar Animation Studios after Disney bought Pixar in 2006.
How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity
~ Ed Catmull
To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios
~ Karen Paik
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January 12th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Please note that John Lasseter and Steve Jobs were not cofounders of Pixar. Alvy Ray Smith and Ed Catmull were the cofounders.
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July 6th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Stumbled across your blog while searching through yahoo. I read the beginning and its fantastic! I don’t have time to finish it now, but I have bookmarked your site and will read the rest later. : )