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Ed Catmull

their list of complaints was our to-do list

November 5, 2026 by omwow

Ed Catmull spent twenty years building the technology for a movie nobody believed could exist. That movie became Toy Story. And for most of those twenty years, whenever he and his team showed people what they were working on, they got the same reaction: this isn’t good enough. In a recent interview, he said something … Read more

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