6Out of the GalápagosEditors and Technology Adapt

DOI: 10.4324/9781003167945-7

All art is dependent on technology, because it is a human endeavor. Everything involved in art—inventing oil paints, using charcoal on a wall—you are dependent on technology. In film it is the same way.1

George Lucas, Director (Star Wars, American Graffiti)

Photo 6.1   Monsters, Inc. (2001).

© Disney/Pixar.

Editors have always been both technicians and artists, and so they embody a phrase heard often at Pixar: “The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.” Editors landing in the studio’s embryonic environment after Toy Story were ...

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