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Edwin Catmull
Edwin Catmull
American Scientist
Born: Mar 31, 1945
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Encourage people to mingle, meet, and communicate. Edwin Catmull
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Candor is the key to collaborating effectively. Lack of candor leads to dysfunctional environments. Edwin Catmull
Key Collaborating Leads Environments Effectively Lack Candor Dysfunctional
I apply the term 'creativity' broadly... it's problem solving. We are all faced with problems, and we have to address them and think of something new, and that's where creativity comes in. Edwin Catmull
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Technical understanding should be a core competency of any company. Edwin Catmull
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We need to remember we're always a lot more wrong than we think. Edwin Catmull
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A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms. Our decision-making is better when we draw on the collective knowledge and unvarnished opinions of the group. Edwin Catmull
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Believe me, you don't want to be at a company where there is more candor in the hallways than in the rooms where fundamental ideas or policy are being hashed out. Edwin Catmull
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Part of being the successful Pixar is that we will take risks on teams and ideas, and some of them won't work out. We only lose from this if we don't respond to the failures. If we respond, and we think it through and figure out how to move ahead, then we're learning from it. That's what Pixar is. Edwin Catmull
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Look at the computer industry. I've watched a lot of companies come and go, some that were right at the pinnacle of their success. Edwin Catmull
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Believe me, sequels are just as hard to make as original films. Edwin Catmull
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At Pixar, we believe strongly that filmmakers should develop ideas they are passionate about. This may sound like a no-brainer, but in fact in Hollywood, the big movie studios have whole departments devoted to acquiring and developing projects that will only later be paired with a director-for-hire. Edwin Catmull
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It is only by trying new things that we can hope to create products that are original. Don't just say those words; act like you believe them. Edwin Catmull
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I don't think most of our films should be realistic, but you want that as an artistic possibility. Then, the artist can take the realism of the world and push it in ways that we can connect with. Edwin Catmull
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One reason for keeping Disney animation separate from Pixar was that by solving their own problems when they finished a film, Disney could say, 'Nobody bailed us out; we did it.' And it's a very important social thing for them to do that. Edwin Catmull
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What happened in the early days of Disney is that Walt Disney used all of the new technologies as they came out. When matting came out, they adopted it. They adopted sound and color and xerography. Walt did that. And then, when he died, people began to think that this is just about making films, so they stopped bringing in new technologies. Edwin Catmull
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For me, one of the great tragedies is the conclusion studios have drawn about traditional animation. I believe that 2D animation could be just as vital as it ever was. I think the problem has been with the stories. Edwin Catmull
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If you see a bad live action film, what are the conclusions you draw? Typically, it is that they made a bunch of mistakes, a bad script, wrong casting. You get into 2D, and you get a few films that are not strong films. And what is the conclusion? That it's 2D? I beg to differ. It's a convenient excuse, but it's just wrong. Edwin Catmull
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Are the Simpsons cool? They are, and that is crude 2D animation. Edwin Catmull
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When it comes to producing breakthroughs, both technological and artistic, Pixar's track record is unique. In the early 1990s, we were known as the leading technological pioneer in the field of computer animation. Edwin Catmull
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A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the design of characters, sets, and backgrounds; in the locations of the camera; in the colors, the lighting, the pacing. Edwin Catmull
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Outsourcing, in and of itself, isn't responsible for the erosion of America's high tech infrastructure. The short-term thinking that led to a lot of bad outsourcing decisions is the root cause. And short-term thinking isn't a problem confined to the executive suite. It's a problem in Washington and in our society as a whole. Edwin Catmull
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