The speakers will talk about how the first fully computer-generated full-length motion picture ``Toy Story'' was created. The talk will cover the Story & Art Department, Modeling, Layout, Animation, Shaders, and Lighting. Video will be shown, including the trailer, early work, a progressions reel (showing the different stages of creating a shot), and some special treats.

Rick Sayre is a Senior Animation Scientist who joined Pixar in 1987. He received his B.S.E.E. from the University of California at Berkeley and studied film at the University of California at Davis. At Pixar, he built a wide variety of warping, painting and image processing tools and constructed shaders before joining the Animation Production group, where he served as technical director and production software developer when the group produced commercials. On Toy Story, he did character modeling, articulation and shading, and built some of the tools and infrastructure for those tasks. Rick has also done design and development of innovative animation input devices for other feature films, as well as for his own theatrical projects. He welds to relax.

David Tart is an Animator with a B.A. Creative Arts (CS Minor) SFSU 1993. After studying computer science for a couple of years in school he decided to switch to film animation after he noticed he wasn't laughing at math jokes as hard as his CS classmates. He spent the last two years of school drawing, mushing clay, pushing pieces of paper around, and scripting motion on an old IRIS running wavefront software. After graduating he worked at Danger Productions on "Bump in the Night", a stop-motion animated children's show for ABC, swearing it'd be a long time before he animated with computers again. A year later he joined the staff at Pixar, because, well, it was Pixar, and he just couldn't pass up the opportunity to work with John Lasseter. He currently use computers to animate.

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