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Lasseter John
Birth at
12 January 1957
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John Lasseter was born in 1957 in Hollywood (California, USA). He became interested in animation at school, was engaged in drawing. Then John Lasseter entered the California Institute of Art in Valencia, during the summer holidays worked as a student at Disney Studios. As a student, he directed two short animated films, Lady and the Lamp and Nightmare. Shortly after graduating from the institute in 1979, John Lasseter was recruited to Disney Studios, where he worked for several years and contributed
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John Lasseter was born in 1957 in Hollywood (California, USA). He became interested in animation at school, was engaged in drawing. Then John Lasseter entered the California Institute of Art in Valencia, during the summer holidays worked as a student at Disney Studios. As a student, he directed two short animated films, Lady and the Lamp and Nightmare. Shortly after graduating from the institute in 1979, John Lasseter was recruited to Disney Studios, where he worked for several years and contributed to the animated films The Fox and the Hound (1981) and Mickey's Christmas Carol (1984). In 1982, the animator first encountered the possibilities of computer graphics - while shooting the film "Tron" - and became interested in this direction of animation. In 1983, John Lasseter met Pixar founder Ed Catmull and the following year moved to work in the computer graphics department of Pixar. Soon, he gained creative freedom. In 1986, he released his film “Luxo Junior”, nominated for an Oscar. In 1988, John Lasseter released a short animated film, Tin Toy, made entirely using computer graphics. For this work, he was awarded an Oscar for Best Animated Short. A huge success fell on the share of the beautiful animated film Toy Story, released jointly by Pixar and Disney Studios in 1995. The film was awarded four Oscar nominations, and the director was awarded a special award for the use of advanced technologies in animation. Great luck was also for John Lasseter "The Adventures of Flick" ("The Life of Beetles"). In 2000, the director shot a new film - "Toy Story-2", which immediately took second place among the full-length animated films, second only to "The Lion King".