Creators Society Animation Podcast

16. Rex Grignon - Animation at PDI, Pixar & DreamWorks, Founder of Nimble Collective


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Rex was there in the early days of CG, attending NYIT and joining PDI and working with Jim Henson, before animating on Toy Story and then joining DreamWorks. He was head of animation on all three Madagascar films, won a Sci-Tech Oscar for leading the design of DreamWorks animation software Premo. He then went on to found  Nimble Collective, along  with Scott LaFleur, Jason Schleifer and Bruce Wilson, a cloud based solution for animation production, which was acquired by Amazon in 2019.

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Referenced clip of Rex with Jim Henson - Click Here
Nimble Collective - Now Amazon Nimble Studio - Click Here


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Music by: Rich Dickerson (www.richdickerson.com)
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