In his book, Creativity Inc., Pixar president Ed Catmull details the Pixar Braintrust–one of his essential management tools. Here, in a wide-ranging conversation with Fast Company he describes how ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pixar and Disney Animation president Ed Catmull has always had a reputation as a decent person, but newly revealed court documents show that he’s been working against the interests of Pixar’s ...

The first thing you notice when you step into Pixar’s famed atrium is the awards case. Golden statues of every shape and size, dozens of them Oscars, quietly attest to the studio’s creative dominance ...

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 ...

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, a co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, a computer scientist responsible for groundbreaking blockbusters like Toy Story, and a winner of five Academy Awards, will speak at Johns Hopkins ...

President Ed Catmull is photographed on February 12, 2016 at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, Calif. (Photo by Deborah Coleman / Pixar) Ed Catmull, President of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation ...