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John lasseter (English: Johanna lasseter,1957 65438+1October12-) is an American animator, film director, chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studio and Walter Disney Animation Studio, and chief creative consultant of Walter Disney Fantasy Project. Many people regard him as "the contemporary Walter Disney".

2017165438+122 October, john lasseter sexually harassed female employees of the company for a long time, and several Disney employees anonymously provided clues to the media. Lasseter has issued a statement apologizing that he will leave his post for half a year for reflection.

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John Lasseter

Nationality: USA

Constellation: Capricorn

Place of birth: Hollywood, California, USA

Date of birth: 1957 65438+ 10/2.

Occupation: director, actor, screenwriter, animator.

Brokerage company: Pixar Company

Representative works: Toy Story, Monster Company, Operation Snowman, etc.

Main achievements: won the "animation pioneer" award.

Spouse: Nancy lasseter

Children: Joey, Bennett, P.J. Sam Jackson.

life experience

Lasseter was born in Hollywood, California and grew up in Whittier. His mother is an art teacher, and he fell in love with animation art in the first grade. In middle school, he wrote a letter to Disney Film Company, telling his love for animation. At the same time, he began to study art and learn to draw portraits of people and animals. At that time, Disney was preparing an animation course in california institute of the arts, which was a groundbreaking art, design and photography center. Lasseter became the second student in the teaching plan. He studied in california institute of the arts for four years, during which he made two animated films, LadyandtheLamp and Nitemare, both of which won him an Oscar for students.

Lasseter went to Disney for an internship in the summer vacation. 1979 when he graduated, he found a full-time job in the animation feature film department of the company. During his five-year contract with Disney, he participated in film production, such as TheFoxandtheHound and Mickey Mouse's Santa Claus. 1982, Disney made special effects by using computer animation technology, and completed an extraordinary innovative film "Chuang". Inspired by this film, lasseter and his animation colleague Green Keane started their own experiment together. They conducted 32 experiments based on a famous children's work, aiming to prove that traditional hand-drawn animation can be organically combined with computerized photographic action and environment.

1983, at the invitation of Eddie Catmoore, co-founder of Pixar, lasseter visited the computer graphics department of Lucasfilm Company and was immediately fascinated by everything there. Seeing the great potential of computer graphics technology in transforming animation art, he left Disney Company to join Lucas Company on 1984. Originally, he only wanted to work there for one month, but it turned out to be six months. He quickly gathered a force and finally contributed to the birth of Pixar. Lasseter came up with an idea to make a pair of desk lamps have a convincing personality, so he made an award-winning short film "Naughty Jumping Lights".

Lasseter lives in Northern California with his wife Nancy and five sons.

Early life

John lasseter was born in Hollywood, California, USA. His father is the department manager of a local Chevrolet dealer, and his mother is an art teacher working in Bell Garden High School. John lasseter grew up in Whittier, California; Influenced by his mother's career, he devoted himself to animation when he was a child. Lasseter used to draw cartoons while attending church services with his family. After school, lasseter will go home after school to watch Chuck Jones's cartoons on TV. After graduating from high school, he read Walt Disney Heart Animation Imagination written by bob thomas, which is a book about the history of Disney animation and the creation process of Sleeping Beauty. And this book also made him realize that he wanted to make his own animation. When john lasseter saw the animated film Sword in the Stone produced by Disney in 1963, he finally made up his mind to become an animator. Lasseter graduated from california institute of the arts, where he met his future partner Brad Bird.

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Angry Birds -20 16, Beating Birds (voice) (undetermined)

Racing story 2-20 1 1, play AdditionalVoice (voice.

Toy story 2- 1999, playing AdditionalVoice (voice.

Bug task force-1998, play BugZapperBug# 1 (voice)

Toy Story-1995, commercial chorus # 1 (voice) (undetermined)

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