1952-2010

Animation Magazine reports that Andy Witkin, a Senior Scientist at Pixar, passed away while scuba diving on September 12. His official bio on Pixar’s website states:

Andy Witkin received his BA from Columbia College in 1975 and his PhD from MIT in 1980. Witkin has published extensively in the areas of Computer Vision and Computer Graphics. Before joining Pixar in 1998, he was a Professor of Computer Science, Robotics, and Art at Carnegie Mellon University, and before that, a director of the Perception and Graphics groups at Schlumberger’s Palo Alto Research Lab. [Read more…]