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Ed Catmull

judge · in 5 sources (2026)

Speaks in 2 sources; this page lists what is said about them.

Sources by year: 2026: 5

Also named in the threads: KÖK BÖRÜ (Higgsfield Original Series) · Higgsfield Global Film Festival (2026) · Ed Catmull: an AI-assisted film is highly unlikely to win Best Animated Feature by 2030 (2026) · Ed Catmull: the first successful AI film will be stylised, or AI will come in through special effects without calling attention to itself (2026) · Ed Catmull: AI should cut the cost of a film in half in the near term (2026)

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Higgsfield Global Film Festival (5) · Hell Grind (3) · YouTube (2)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2026

  • 2026-08-05 · Hell Grind: Rebuilding Our Biggest Fight Scene from Scratch — Adil names the $1 million contest's first two judges: Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull, a five-time Oscar winner, and cinematographer Phedon Papamichael, a two-time Oscar and BAFTA nominee. — 00:00:29
  • 2026-08-10 · Higgsfield Global Film Festival: How to Enter, Rules, and the $1,000,000 Prize Pool — announcement: Higgsfield: The festival jury: Edwin Catmull, former President of Walt Disney Animation Studios and executive producer of Toy Story; cinematographer Phedon Papamichael (Ford v Ferrari); and Paul W.S. Anderson, director of Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil.
  • 2026-11-01 · Who Won $1,000,000? Higgsfield Global Film Festival Winners — Ed Catmull says the whole story of Listen to Meh held together, so viewers paid no attention to the underlying technology and just watched the story. — 00:21:53
  • 2026-11-03 · Pixar’s Co-Founder on AI: What Happens to Creativity? — Ed Catmull says Pixar's goal was a film where people did not notice the technology; when almost every review gave only a sentence or two to it being computer generated, they knew they had succeeded. — 00:02:25
    • Ed Catmull says Alan Kay taught him to grasp the implications of compound change such as Moore's law, and that people still find those implications almost impossible to understand. — 00:05:21
    • Ed Catmull says his foundation was the mindset that things will change in unpredictable ways, so the job is to engage with the problem. — 00:06:30
    • Ed Catmull says AI is at the beginning and will change; its problems are the job, and the companies working on it must fix the problems they can see. — 00:11:44
    • Ed Catmull says a computer lets you emulate the future: work on the important problems before they are economical, so they are solved when the economics change. — 00:12:12
    • Ed Catmull calls the assumption that engineers are more organised than artists a misconception; as groups, world-class engineers and artists are equally able to manage. — 00:13:28
    • Ed Catmull says engineers do not know what to build and artists do not know what is possible, so artists must patiently work with an early, not-good-enough system alongside its builders. — 00:22:24
    • Ed Catmull says that from New York Tech on his team published everything, unlike secretive rivals, because when things change fast you cannot keep a technology secret. — 00:28:39
    • Ed Catmull says that of the festival short films he saw, all but one had some element that did not match consistent short filmmaking. — 00:49:49
  • …and 114 statements more in 2026 — all statements of 2026

Also named in: Pixar Co-Founder: A Camera in Your Pocket Doesn't Make You a Filmmaker