John Lasseter

John Lasseter is the principal creative advisor to Walt Disney Imagineering. He was born in California on January 12, 1957. After graduating from Pepperdine University, he joined Walt Disney Company and later became an animator at Walt Disney Feature Animation. Lassester was introduced to computer animation in 1982, during the production of Tron. Later he was appointed as the CEO of Pixar and Disney animation studios, and given the freedom to work on his own projects.

Recently he commnted about his movie UP: "is one of the most unusual movies we’ve ever made. It’s funny, full of heart, emotional, and it’s a great action picture. It’s hard to describe the movie, but it works. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/6252545/John-Lasseter-interview-on-UP.html

In the D23 expo,Lasseter talked about the Disney’s upcoming hand-drawn movie “The Princess and the Frog” . It is supposed to be released by December 11, 2009

John Lasseter's first animated short film Tin Toy, released in 1988, won an Oscar for Best Achievement in Animated Short Films. He also received an Academy Award for special achievement for his animated film Toy Story, which was released in 1995. His other popular films are Finding Nemo, The Incredibles and Wall-e.

"I’m a big lover of animation. I love animation of all types, not just computer animation" http://www.joblo.com/index.php?id=13476

• 1983 Mickey's Christmas Carol, creative talent

• 1984 The Adventures of André and Wally B. character design and animation

• 1985 Young Sherlock Holmes computer animation

• 1986 Luxo, Jr. writer, director, producer, models, animaton

• 1987 Red's Dream writer, director, animator

• 1988 Tin Toy story, director, animator, modeler

• 1989 Knick Knack writer, director

• 1995 Toy Story story, director, modeling & animaton system development

• 1997 Geri's Game executive producer

• 1988 A Bug's Life story, director, additional voices

• 1999 Toy Story 2 story, director, additional voices

• 2000 For the Birds executive producer

• 2001 Spirited Away , Monster's Incexecutive producer: US

• 2002 Mike's New Car executive producer

• 2003 Finding Nemo Boundin' executive producer

• 2004 Howl's Moving Castle, The Incredibles executive producer

• 2005 Jack-Jack Attack executive producer

• 2006 Cars One Man Band, Mater and the Ghostlight story, screenplay, director

• 2007]] Your Friend the Rat, Meet the Robinsons, Ratatouille, How to Hook Up Your Home Theater executive producer

• 2008]] Presto, Wall-e, Bolt, tinker Bell executive producer

• Partly Cloudy (2009) (executive producer)

• 2009 Up, Ponyo, Glgo'sGuest. The Princess and the Frog Executive producer