Ed Catmull's Creativity, Inc.

A 30-Minute Instaread Summary

By: Instaread Summaries

Narrated by: Gonzo Shimura

Length: 1 hr and 32 mins

Publisher's Summary

With Instaread Summaries, you can get the summary of a book in 30 minutes or less. We read every chapter, summarize and analyze it for your convenience. This is an Instaread Summary of Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull. Below is a preview of the earlier sections of the summary:

Chapter 1 - Every Sunday, as a kid, Catmull watched on TV The Wonderful World of Disney, where Disney explained how they made their animations and incorporated technological breakthroughs into their work. One day, Catmull had a life-changing realization: A good animation was measured by whether or not the character on the screen made you believe it was a thinking being. He decided he wanted to become an animator and create emotional characters. Catmull graduated with a double major in Physics and Computer Science from the University of Utah. In his graduate program, he met Professor Ivan Sutherland, a pioneer in computer graphics and director of the computer graphics program. The program was funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the creators of the first computer network, ARPANET, which would later evolve into the Internet. ARPA was developed as a response to the threat of the Soviet Sputnik satellite, the first of its kind. The U.S. felt threatened by Soviet technological advancements and they developed ARPA to stay up with the Soviets.

To Catmull, the lesson to be learned from this was when the competition gets smart, you need to get smarter. Catmull found enormous inspiration in the computer graphics program, not only from the technology he was discovering but also from his fellow students. The collaborative and creative atmosphere he experienced there was something he later tried to emulate at Pixar. In 1972, Catmull made his first animated film, a digitized model of his left hand. Hand became a reference for state-of-the-art computer animation.

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on a loop?

it was hard to stay focused, but it seemed to me that but started repeating itself. the read would say chapter 8 but the audio said chapter 3. maybe it was just that dry a read.

MANAGEMENT 501

Good discussion of management techniques based on the Pixar model. Some ideas worthy of consideration.

Inspiring and encouraging

Was able to hear him speak at #GLS15. The summary was on point. I need to buy the book.

Not the book, just a summary. Read the book by Ed

This is just a summary of the book. The actual book by Ed Catmull is amazing.

lots of lessons to learn

i enjoy listening it but i need to put my full concentration on it. good listen!