Ed Catmull joins the speakers at the VIEW Conference 2020
Dr. Ed Catmull, pioneer of computer graphics, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, will speak at the main Italian event on digital media VIEW Conference. The 21st edition of the curated annual conference will take place October 18-23 online and on-site in Turin, Italy.
"We are honored that Ed Catmull is attending VIEW 2020," says conference director Dr Maria Elena Gutierrez. “He exemplifies the goal of this conference: to bring together scientists and artists who share their knowledge and inspire a new generation of creatives. Dr. Catmull has done this throughout his career, from leading the group of artists and scientists at Pixar Animation Studios to extending that leadership to Disney Animation. I couldn't be more excited to welcome him into the VIEW family. "
Dr. Catmull joins an engaging lineup of artists, directors and technology innovators that also includes:
- Tom Moore, Director, wolfwalkers, Comics salon
- Tony Bancroft, Director, Animal crackersNetflix
- Peter Ramsey, Co-director, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Sony Pictures Animation (Oscar winner)
- K, Writer / director, The WilloughbysNetflix
- Jorge Gutierrez, Writer / director, The book of life
- Jeremy clapin, Writer / director, I have lost my body
- Sharon Calahan, Director of photography, forward (Pixar)
- Roger Guyett, VFX Supervisor, Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
- Hal Hickel, Director of animation, The Mandalorian, ILM (Academy Award winner)
- Celine Desrumaux, Set designer, Beyond the MoonNetflix
- nate fox, Director, The ghost of Tsushima, Sucker Punch
- Paul Debevec, Senior Engineer, Google VR (Academy Award Winner) (Keynote)
- Glenn Entis, Co-Founder PDI (Academy Award winner)
- Scott Ross, Founder, Digital Domain and Entrepreneur, Trip Hawkins, EA / 3DO Founder and Executive Coach
- Stefen Fangmeier, VFX Supervisor and Director, Game of Thrones
- Alison Mann, VP Creativity / Strategy, Sony Pictures Animation
- Don Greenberg, Jacob Gould Schurmann Professor of Computer Graphics, Cornell University (Keynote)
- Marine Guarnieri, Director, Cinderella the cat
- Nikola Damjanov, nordeus
- Dylan Sisson, Artist, RenderMan, Pixar
- Sebastian Hue, Concept Artist
- Kane Lee, Head of Story, Baobab Studios
- Angie Wojak, Director of Career Development, New York School of Visual Arts
In 2019, Dr. Catmull received the "Nobel Prize in Information Technology," the $ 1 million Turing Prize, which he shared with Dr. Pat Hanrahan. He is the author of the book, creativity, inc., which was shortlisted for the Financial Times and the Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
He has also received three academic, engineering and technical awards, an Academy Award of Merit for significant advances in the field of moving image rendering, and the Academy's Gordon E. Sawyer Award for a career in computer graphics. He is a member of the Computer History Museum and the Visual Effects Society. Dr. Catmull was also awarded the IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the VES Georges Méliès Award, the Annie Awards Ub Iwerks Award for Technical Achievement, the PGA's Vanguard Award and induction into the VES Hall of Fame.
Under the guidance of Dr. Catmull, Pixar's feature films and animated shorts have received 16 Oscars and Disney Animation's feature and animated shorts have won five.
The VIEW international conference, the first event in Italy for Computer Graphics, Interactive and Immersive Storytelling, Animation, Visual Effects, Games and VR, AR and Mixed Reality, brings the best professionals from those fields to the beautiful Baroque city of Turin, Italy, for a week of talks, presentations and workshops.Registration is now open.
"As the VIEW Conference will be online as well as onsite this year, we are taking advantage of the wonderful opportunity to include extraordinary professionals from around the world," added Gutierrez. "VIEW 2020 will be great."
