John Lasseter

John Lasseter was born in 1957 in Los Angeles and learned animation at the California Institute of the Arts. He joined Disney in 1979, discovered computer-generated imagery in the early eighties, and was dismissed in 1983 after championing a computer animation project over the heads of his superiors. He joined the computer graphics group of Lucasfilm, bought in 1986 by Steve Jobs. He became its creative head, and later also that of Disney animation, left these positions in 2018 after accusations of inappropriate behaviour, and has since run another studio.

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• CinemaToy StoryJohn Lasseter · 1995Cinema