Pioneering Computer Graphics & Animation – Richard Chuang

Part of what I love about getting to create a podcast like this is sharing conversations I’ve had with some of these extraordinary people that you just never hear about otherwise or never get to meet. They’re working behind the scenes, inventing new technologies that become part of our lives.

And they’re out of the spotlight. I’ve been lucky enough to get to know Richard Chuang, who’s with us today, because we both served as board members at the University of Silicon Valley, where he is still a trustee. Richard is a pioneer in computer graphics. He’s been there since the beginning, since the moment we turned pixels into images on a computer screen and turned those images into animations.

What has later become, everything you see coming out of Hollywood now. He’s a real pioneer in computer graphics, having built some of the animation systems at PDI, 30 years ago, that ultimately became DreamWorks Animation, where the pioneering feature films animated on computers. Ants, Shrek, those kinds of things were first done.

Look, Richard, it makes me want to cry. How humble he is, the wisdom he has in this conversation. He’s sharing so much with us and, going back to, the seventies when he first learned about computers. there’s some computer history in here. His encounters with Steve Jobs over the years, in both working in animation with computers, his experience with, some of the other pioneers in the, in the industry.

Richard doesn’t take credit personally for anything, but the truth is he’s behind a lot of these things that change the world, and I’m so thrilled to be able to share him with all of you guys.

Recorded on June 20, 2018

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