Happy Birthday: John Lasseter

John Lasseter

Born: January 12, 1957 in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

[on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)] The animation of the dwarfs themselves is something pretty much impossible to achieve in computer animation. That fluidity, that squash and stretch, that kind of stuff – it just works in hand-drawn animation.

[on new directions in animated storytelling] You’ve got to tell them for today’s audiences, You can’t have a female character sitting around for a guy to come save her. There’s not one woman I know – my mom, my wife – who is waiting around for guy to save them. For Tangled (2010), the story had to have a little something extra. This was a challenging story that involves child abduction and a poor girl raised in one room for her whole life. But her decision not to wait for someone to save her was what ended up driving the story. We switched Rapunzel from a damsel to an aspirational character.

Cars 2006 dir. John Lasseter Joe Ranft Voices by Owen Wilson Paul Newman

Toy Story 2 1999 dir. John Lasseter Ash Brannon Voices Tom Hanks Tim Allen TOY STORY 1995 dir. John Lasseter Voices Tom Hanks Tim Allen

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