“In the early 1970s, I headed to graduate school at the University of Utah and joined the pioneering program in computer graphics because I realized that's where I could combine my interests in art and computer science.”

American computer scientist and animator

Edwin Earl Catmull is an American computer scientist and animator, best known as a co-founder of Pixar and a former president of Walt Disney Animation Studios. His work helped shape modern 3D computer graphics, and he received the 2019 ACM Turing Award for those contributions. Catmull’s career sits at the intersection of technology and animation. He is widely associated with the development of computer graphics techniques that made complex digital imagery possible, and with the studios that brought those tools into mainstream filmmaking.