10/18/2025
I recently shot a party celebrating the 50 year reunion of the first year of the CalArts Character Animation Program. In that class, Room A113, were some of todays biggest creatives in animation who have gone on to have amazing careers like Darrell Van Citters who worked for Looney Tunes and eventually started his own company, Renegade Animation. Some of the stand outs from that class were Chris Buck (directed Frozen), Brad Bird (directed The Incredibles), John Musker (directed Aladdin), John Lasseter, (the founder of Pixar and director of Toy Story and Cars), and Tim Burton who unfortunately couldn’t make the party.