It's hard to imagine anyone has had a career like Ed Catmull's. He was hired by George Lucas to run Lucasfilm's computer division in 1979; seven years later, after Steve Jobs bought that division from ...

Animation giant Pixar uses technology only as a means to an end; its films are rooted in human concerns, not computer wizardry. The same can be said of the new book “Creativity, Inc.,” Ed Catmull’s ...

Find the latest disney/pixar news from Fast company. See related business and technology articles, photos, slideshows and ...

As Yoda to John Lasseter's Luke Skywalker, Catmull spearheaded the rise of Pixar and Disney animation, a multi-billion dollar industry. Animation pioneer Ed Catmull, 73, Pixar co-founder and president ...

Pixar co-founder and computer animation pioneer Ed Catmull will retire next year after more than four decades working in the film industry. The soft-spoken computer engineer will step down from his ...

Pixar has nearly 30 years of imaginative work behind it, but the company struggles with the same frustrations as any organization. At the recent Innovation Uncensored New York event, Pixar President ...

At first glance, the new book about Pixar, Creativity, Inc. (Random House, April 2014), seems like a deluxe version of the account of creative enterprise and management with which we have become ...

Ed Catmull, president of the animation arms of Walt Disney and Pixar, is this year's recipient of the Gorden E. Sawyer Award, voted by the board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...