Ed Catmull - SIGGRAPH Pioneers Featured Speaker 2025
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[video] Ed Catmull - SIGGRAPH Pioneers Featured Speaker 2025 is an approximately 70-minute SIGGRAPH 2025 Pioneers talk by Ed Catmull in Vancouver, introduced by Ginger Alford, Don Fidleric, and Ed Kramer.
Catmull recounts making Toy Story from 1991 to 1995 as an inflection point for digital filmmaking, set against Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park CGI milestones and Pixar's Disney deal. He discusses collaboration across Pixar, Disney feature craft, and new digital editorial tools, and treats Toy Story as distinct from later Pixar films because of those pioneering constraints. The program also situates the talk within SIGGRAPH Pioneers and Computer Animation Festival events.
It is for a broad SIGGRAPH audience of researchers, filmmakers, and students interested in production history rather than a programming tutorial.
Access is a free YouTube recording of the live Pioneers session, including introductions and the featured talk.
It is useful as a primary-source narrative of early feature CGI culture and how SIGGRAPH-era research met studio practice in the early 1990s.