John Lasseter CalArts Graduation Speech 2014

CalArts: 'Chuck Jones at 100' hosted by John Lasseter

Last year CalArts held a special cartoon screening event entitled "Chuck Jones at 100" hosted by their famous alum, John Lasseter. Here's a great video edit of John's introduction to the event and his thoughts and memories of Chuck's work. Big thanks to FILX for posting it!





Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote -- The Myth and the Truth




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// Chuck Jones Extremes & Inbetweens

The Development of the Digital Animator (hightlights)

For those of you (me included) who missed this lecture here are some of the highlights.

//  The Development of the Digital Animator

Panelists Jeff Kleiser (Visual Effects Supervisor: X2, X-Men: The Last Stand), David Em (Digital Artist), Rebecca Allen (Media Artist/Designer/Director) and Diana Walczak (GC Animator: X-Men, Fantastic Four) share how they got started with digital animation at The Academy's Development of the Digital Animator at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater on May 21, 2012. Panel moderated by animator and historian Tom Sito (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid).

A Conversation with the Pixar Creative Team - D23 Expo 2011

John Lasseter, Bob Peterson, Pete Doctor, Mark Andrews, Peter Sohn, Ronnie Del Carmen, Dan Scanlon, Andrew Stanton, and Jim Morris talk about their work at Pixar.



This is great -- Mark Andrews Slow Motion Double Grenade drop

John Lasseter - A Day in the Life

Miyazaki/Lasseter Press Conference

So if any of you are Miyazaki fans like I am you'll really get a kick out of the press conference video that's been posted by Jerry Beck over on Cartoon Brew!

Luckily my wife and I got a chance (once in a lifetime!) to see Miyazaki at a sold out lecture he gave in Berkely last Friday. I'll post some notes from that talk later but for now be sure to check out the vids over on Cartoon Brew!


Miyazaki/Lasseter Press Conference via Cartoon Brew

John Lasseter Interview from 1996

This is a great interview with John Lasseter and Steve Jobs which was recorded back in 1996 just after Toy Story was released.