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Jun. 23rd, 2009 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearI'm watching an old (OLD) Disney Channel documentary called "Beyond Tron" (not on DVD - it was ripped from an old vhs tape with tracking issues, several generations old likely). It's a discussion about the CGI industry circa 1984. Lots of crazy name-dropping.
Crazy name-dropping? How about MAGI's Chris Wedge?
Don't know Chris Wedge?
This geek kid they show with an early CAD mouse and long hair 20 years later became the director of Ice Age!
Update: Also featured: an early *Disney* version of Where The Wild Things Are (CGI backgrounds, hand-drawn characters) directed by John Lassiter!
and "Lucasfilm"'s animation division...which you'll recognize instantly as, well, the *rest* of Pixar!
To see him back then, talking animation, you wouldn't think he'd end up back at Disney, as perhaps the 2nd most important person in the company behind Iger...I love "primary source" history.
Crazy name-dropping? How about MAGI's Chris Wedge?
Don't know Chris Wedge?
This geek kid they show with an early CAD mouse and long hair 20 years later became the director of Ice Age!
Update: Also featured: an early *Disney* version of Where The Wild Things Are (CGI backgrounds, hand-drawn characters) directed by John Lassiter!
and "Lucasfilm"'s animation division...which you'll recognize instantly as, well, the *rest* of Pixar!
To see him back then, talking animation, you wouldn't think he'd end up back at Disney, as perhaps the 2nd most important person in the company behind Iger...I love "primary source" history.
