John Lasseter
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- Pixar Animation Studios, Lucasfilm
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 1991
John Lasseter is a Director/Animator at PIXAR. John won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for Tin Toy, the first computer animated film to win an Oscar.
As a director and animator of computer animated films, John has helped create a number of short films and television commercials at Pixar: Luxo Jr., Red’s Dream, Tin Toy and most recently Knickknack. He also designed and animated the Stained Glass Knight in Steven Spielberg’s Young Sherlock Holmes.
John joined Pixar in 1984 after five years as an animator at Walt Disney Studios, where he worked on The fox and the Hound, Mickey’s Christmas Carol and the “Wild Things Computer Animation Test”.
In 1986 John received the “Raoul Servais Animation Award” for his work in animation from the Genk International Animation Festival in Belgium. He received a BFA in Film from the California Institute of the Arts in 1979. At CalArts, he produced two animated films, each winners of the Student Academy Award for Animation, Lady and the Lamp and Nitemare. John also won $15.00 from the Model Market in Whittier, CA for a crayon drawing of the Headless Horseman in 1962.
Experience Category: Jury Member:
Animation/Video(s):
Toy Story
Director(s): [Lasseter]
Studio(s): [Walt Disney Feature Animation] [Pixar]
[SIGGRAPH 1995]
Learning Category: Presentation(s):
Type: [Courses]
Animation Tricks Organizer(s): [Blinn]
Presenter(s): [Blinn] [Henne] [Lasseter] [Perlin] [Wedge]
Entry No.: [01]
[SIGGRAPH 1994]
Type: [Courses]
Education of a Computer Animator Organizer(s): [Anderson] [Luskin]
Presenter(s): [Anderson] [Luskin] [Lasseter] [St. John] [van Dam]
Entry No.: [04]
[SIGGRAPH 1991]
Learning Category: Moderator:
Role(s):
- Animation Director
- Computer Animation Jury Member
- Course Presenter
- Panel Moderator
- Panel Presenter
- Technical Paper Presenter
