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JERRY BECK (LA)
AMID AMIDI (NY)
Great, Now We Have To Start Calling Him Dr. Lasseter
May 12, 2009 3:04 pm


Doctor Lasseter

This photo comes from davedoo’s Flickr page. The accompanying caption:

Saturday, May 2, 2009: A lovely day as Pepperdine University graduates the class of 2009. I had only one acquaintance that was graduating but childhood friend John Lasseter, who I grew up with at the Whittier Church of Christ, received an honorary doctorate for his work in computer animation as Chief Creative Officer of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Imagineering. Congrats John!

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Vvek says:
05/12/09  3:34pm

the guy is worth every bit of respect he has earned. he has the excitement of a 4 year old when it comes to animation, and with that energy, its amazing what he has achieved.

 
Emily says:
05/12/09  3:42pm

Haha. Amid, your titling of this post is hilarious.

Nonetheless, congrats to the man!

 
red pill junkie says:
05/12/09  3:43pm

A black suit, John?? Tsk tsk ;-)

 
ovi says:
05/12/09  5:03pm

LASSETER FOR PRESIDENT 2012!

some REAL change to the white-house.

 
Jason says:
05/12/09  7:40pm

Yeah, change we can REALLY believe in!

 
Matt Sullivan says:
05/12/09  8:17pm

Lassater / Bird 2012

 
mike Gabriel says:
05/12/09  8:53pm

Congratulations, John. You are a legendary leader and visionary. It is an honor to work with you and try to live up to all that is in your brilliant head. Thanks for putting passion for excellence above all ego and studio competition. You honor the profession and the art form by your devotion to excellence wherever it may be found. You do all you can to inspire greatness in everyone in the industry. Because of one simple fact—-you love good animation. You get fired up wherever true believers kick in their honest passion to create something special. Thanks for coming back home to Disney to lead us not to crush us, which you could have easily done if you were a spiteful lesser man. Let’s take it to the next level if people are willing to admit they have much to learn and far to grow. We all need to keep the mind set of wearing robes of learning and being educated about how to make it better yet. This is your attitude and it permeates the new Disney.

 
Tragedy of P says:
05/12/09  10:14pm

I used to make jokes to friends about how animators won’t ever have master’s or doctorate degree.

This totally ruined it.

 
Esperanza says:
05/12/09  11:07pm

We who grew up with him, will still continue to call him ‘Stinky’

 
Aaron H. Bynum says:
05/13/09  6:11am

The suit may be standard, but that tie… oh wow, check out that necktie…

 
Sean says:
05/13/09  8:23am

This guy is such a sham. MORE TINKERBELL DOCTOR!

 
Steve Gattuso says:
05/13/09  9:26am

What’s up, doc?

 
Vvek says:
05/13/09  3:27pm

1st picture ive seen of him, without a hawaiian pixar shirt.

 
Tres Swygert says:
05/13/09  3:30pm

Congratulations, Dr. Lasseter! :D

 
Ken Priebe says:
05/13/09  5:00pm
 
Steve says:
05/14/09  1:25am

Has Lasseter’s reign at Disney really been so benign? I think there are those who might disagree.

 
Jessie says:
05/15/09  1:22pm

I really think they need to do this for Pete Docter – just for my own personal amusement. :D

 
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