Danielle Feinberg was studying computer programming at Harvard when a professor screened the first Pixar computer animations in her class. A new world opened up for the young engineer; she could marry her two passions, coding and story. "That's what I want to do with my life," she thought.
Feinberg's ambitions took her to the place where it all started. Now Pixar's director of photography, she has worked on many modern animated classics, from A Bug's Life to Toy Story 2 to Inside Out. She was responsible for bringing the underwater universe to life in Finding Nemo, an achievement that rested largely on her ability to render light patterns in the ocean.
In a new TED talk, Feinberg details her process, which, because it involves actual lighting set-ups, is more similar to a live-action director of photography than a computer animator. ("If I don’t put in lights, the final image that ends up on film would be black," she once told her alma mater.)
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