John lasseter's 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, Ladies and Lights and Termel, both of which won him a student Oscar.

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 the production of films such as Fox and Hound and Mickey's Christmas Carol. 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.