How frightening for the entire world that suddenly the United States is in the middle of a hot war. Whatever your politics, you should be very worried right now.<\/p>\n
Rather than dwell on that today, I am going to talk about something more positive. I was having a conversation today with a colleague who has been working in the field of computer graphics for as long as I have — which is a very long time.<\/p>\n
As we compared notes about our respective origin stories, we realized that we were both similarly inspired by the very first time we saw Disney’s Fantasia<\/i>. For me, it was the first time I saw something on the big screen that showed me that anything is possible.<\/p>\n
For both of us, seeing that film, back when we were teenagers, helped start us on the path to working in computer graphics and animation. And I can attest that the sheer visual inventiveness and sense of possibility contained in Fantasia<\/i> literally changed my life.<\/p>\n
Which is very impressive, given that Fantasia<\/i> came out 85 years ago. I wonder how many people who have worked in the field of computer graphics were inspired to enter the field by seeing that movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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