John Lasseter

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John Lasseter is the Chief creative officer at Pixar. He was born in 1957 and went to Perperdine University where he left to study at the California institute of the arts (CalArts) due to their new character animation program. When he graduated he obtained one of 45 places for a job at Disney, there were 10,000 applicants. John worked on several titles at Disney but in the mid 80’s John was fired for siding with computer graphics over traditional animation, he left in 1984. Lasseter Then got a job with Lucas film computer graphics but this was short lived as after George Lucas went through a financially devastating devoice he was forced to sell of Lucas computer graphics, it was sold to Pixar where he produced many major titles like Toy Story, Cars and Finding Nemo. John is currently working on big upcoming titles like the sequel to Finding Nemo (Finding Dory) and the fourth instalment to the Toy Story series