John Lasseter is known for his 3D animation with Disney Pixar and taken part in the creation of amazing animated movies. I am a massive fan of Disney Pixar and have seen just about all of their movies so I have decided to look in to a animator who works for them. Most of John Lasseter's work is with Pixar but he has also been involved with other animations like Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away.
John Lasseter was inspired by Disney's Sleeping Beauty and Disney's Sword in the Stone to become an animator himself. Lasseter started his higher education for animation in Pepperdine University but left shortly after, after seeing a better opportunity to learn character animation at the California Institute of the Arts. Here he was taught by 3 members of Disney's Nine Old Men team of veteran animators along side his fellow classmates who also become great animators including Tim Burton and Brad Bird.
After education John Lasseter worked for Disney for a short time before getting fired because he was caught promoting computer animation as Disney have a passion for hand drawn animation. Lasseter then went to work for LucasArts who wanted and explored in the use of CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) but in 1986 this part of LucasArts was sold to Steve Jobs who turned the company into Pixar. John put his CGI skills at work for Pixar and directed some of the best Disney Pixar movies everyone knows and loves.
Toy Story (1995)
A Bug's Life (1998)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Cars (2006)
Cars 2 (2011)
I have seen all these movies except cars 2 and I love them all. Pixar was the first animation studio to use CGI in 3D and make a full length feature movie from it. All the movies have a similar and obvious style to them and a Pixar movie can instantly be recognised. In the future I want to learn some aspects of 3D animation and Pixar is my inspiration to do so.
