Sharon Calahan

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Most Recent Affiliation(s):

Pixar Animation Studios, Lighting Supervisor

Bio:

SIGGRAPH 1996

As the creative Lighting Supervisor for Pixar’s “Toy Story”, Sharon Calahan has been a member of the technical team at Pixar for the last two years. Her background and education in art and design led her into advertising, broadcast TV, video production, and eventually computer animation. With a focus on lighting direction, Sharon has worked in computer animation for over ten years. Besides “Toy Story” and various commercial work, other accomplishments have been as the computer animation Lighting Director for Hanna-Barbera’s “The Last Halloween” which won an Emmy for Special Effects.

Artwork(s):

Night Cafe–Wurlitzer
Artist(s): [Calahan ]
[SIGGRAPH 1989 ]

Learning Category: Presentation(s):

Type: [Panels ]
Visual Storytelling Presenter(s): [Calahan ] [Cone ] [Johnson ] [Kratter ] [McQueen ] [Pauley ]
Entry No.: [13 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1999]

Type: [Courses ]
Pixel Cinematography: A Lighting Approach for Computer Graphics Organizer(s): [Kahrs]
Presenter(s): [Kahrs ] [Calahan ] [Carson ] [Poster ]
Entry No.: [30 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1996]

Type: [Courses ]
The Making of "Toy Story" Presenter(s): [Walters ] [Ranft ] [Kratter ] [Ostby ] [Sayre ] [Smyrl ] [Good ] [Docter ] [Calahan ] [Jacob ]
Entry No.: [01 ]
[SIGGRAPH 1996]

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