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Pixar techie shares experience

V.P. of Advanced Technology Cook speaks on challenges, future of animation

Staff Reporter and Copy Editor
Published Wednesday, March 7, 2007

Imagine working in a building with a NASCAR car in its main atrium and aquariums filled with clownfish throughout its offices. For Rob Cook, vice president of advanced technology at Pixar Animation Studios, this is reality, not fantasy.

Cook spoke to a standing-room-only crowd about his experiences working with Pixar and in computer animation in general at a Saybrook College Master’s Tea on Tuesday afternoon. Cook, who studied physics in college, said despite his lack of schooling in computer graphics, his background in science has helped him succeed in his field by making him...

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