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Danielle Feinberg
Born
Nationality (legal)American
Alma materHarvard University
Occupation(s)cinematographer
computer scientist
Years active1997-present
Notable workWALL-E (2008)
Brave (2012)

Danielle Feinberg is an American cinematographer and Director of Photography for Lighting at Pixar. She directed lighting for the Academy Award-winning films WALL-E and Brave and is now working on the upcoming Pixar film, Coco.

Life and career

Danielle Feinberg was born in Boulder, Colorado and graduated from Boulder High School. Growing up, she attended summer camps and after-school programs for students interested in computer programming and engineering.[1] She attended Harvard University, where she was introduced to computer animation in a computer graphics course during her junior year.[2] She graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in computer science.

After graduating from Harvard, she started working at Pixar in February 1997 as a technician managing the large libraries of data and images for rendering A Bug's Life.[1] She has since been credited for leading work in visual effects, technical direction, and graphics.[3]

In 2015, she appeared in the documentary Code: Debugging the Gender Gap.

Filmography

Feature films

Year Title Role Notes
1998 A Bug's Life lead render technical director
1999 Toy Story 2 master lighting artist
2001 Monsters, Inc master lighting artist
2003 Finding Nemo computer graphics supervisor lead development on ocean graphics unit[4]
2004 The Incredibles lead lighting artist
2007 Ratatouille master lighting artist
2008 WALL-E director of photography in lighting
2012 Brave director of photography in lighting
2015 Inside Out master lighting artist
2017 Coco director of photography in lighting

Short films

Year Title Role Notes
2003 Exploring the Reef technical supervisor short documentary film distributed with Finding Nemo
2006 Lifted lighting artist
2008 BURN-E lighting consultant

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Suechting, Max (July–August 2015). "Action, Camera, Lights: Putting the finishing touches on animated worlds". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved January 16, 2017.
  2. ^ "Q&A with Danielle Feinberg". Retrieved January 16, 2017.
  3. ^ "IMDb Danielle Feinberg". Retrieved January 16, 2017.
  4. ^ "TED Talk: The magic ingredient that brings Pixar movies to life". Retrieved January 16, 2017.