Los Angeles • Ed Catmull, the president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios since 2006, is retiring next year. The Walt Disney Company says Tuesday that the 73-year-old Pixar co-founder will remain in an advisory role through July 2019.
Catmull is a graduate of Granite High School and the University of Utah, where he began his computer-animation career. His U. of U. student film “A Computer Animated Hand,” in which he computer-animated a model of his own hand, was the first computer animation ever used in a Hollywood movie (“Futureworld,” 1976), and was chosen for the Library of Congress' National Film Registry in 2011.