Ed Catmull
Co-founder and former president of Pixar and of Walt Disney Animation Studios; earlier a computer graphics researcher.
Creativity, Inc. sets out the specific mechanisms Pixar used to hold quality across twenty consecutive films - the Braintrust review with no authority over the director, daily work-in-progress screenings, and structured postmortems - which makes it a manual for managing work whose output cannot be specified in advance. The account of the Disney Animation turnaround shows the same practices applied to an organisation that was already failing.
2 books of their own · 2 books they recommend
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- Creativity, Inc.Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace, 2014
Books they recommend 2
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