SXSW: Movie Tech w/Pixar CTO Steve May
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🗓️ 14 March 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The film industry has undergone massive technological changes over the past 25 years. Pixar's Chief Technology Officer Steve May shares insights on how tech departments work with directors to tell great stories, how the industry has evolved and much more.
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| 0:19.0 | From the South by Southwest podcast age in Austin Texas this is market |
| 0:24.7 | for Tuesday March 14th I'm Chris Hill joining me on the podcast stage today |
| 0:29.8 | very special guest the chief technology officer at Disney Pixar Steve May. |
| 0:35.0 | Thanks for being here. Thank you Chris. This is this is quite an honor to have you here. Really |
| 0:39.8 | appreciate it. It's an honor for me too. I have a longish commute to work and I listen to this |
| 0:46.9 | podcast every day. Fantastic. And it makes that commute tolerable. Actually fun. |
| 0:52.9 | I appreciate that. |
| 0:55.3 | You're going to be doing a panel at South by Southwest |
| 0:58.4 | later this week, and I want to get into that a little bit. |
| 1:00.5 | But first, I'm sure that anyone who has ever listened to market |
| 1:05.1 | foolery is familiar or even if they hadn't they're familiar with obviously |
| 1:11.1 | Pixar and Disney as an entity. |
| 1:15.0 | How did you get started? |
| 1:15.9 | You've been at Pixar for a long time. |
| 1:18.0 | How did you first start there? |
| 1:19.9 | I've been there for 19 years. |
| 1:22.0 | In fact, when I started there, it was, |
| 1:25.3 | A Bugs Life was the film that was in production. |
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