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Rick Sayre: Computer Animation / Visual Effects Jury Member

It is the second time that Rick Sayre (USA) is member of the Computer Animation / Visual Effects Jury of Prix Ars Electronica. He is member of Pixar Animation Studios, where he worked on films like Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Monsters Inc.

Rick's artistic background is in theatre and interactive art. At Prix Ars Electronica 91 he has been awarded together with Chico McMurtrie a Distinction in the category of Interactive Art for the work Tumbling Man. He drew from this experience to develop an innovative animation input device, for which he received a SciTech Academy Award. In 1987 he joined Pixar Animation Studios where he developed warping, painting, image processing and shading tools. His feature credits include Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and A Bug's Life, for which he was nominated for a British Academy Award. His last film, Monsters Inc., a comedy set in the realm of things that go bump in the night, where chaos breaks loose after a hapless monster accidentally lets a human child into the monster world.

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