Seth Holladay

Seth Richins Holladay is an American graphics and effects artist. He is best known for his effect art in Ratatouille and WALL-E. He was also a technical director for the 2006 movie Cars.^[1]

Biography

Personal life

Seth Holladay is the second born of eight children in his family. At the age of one, his family moved to Tampa, Florida and then to Longwood, Florida at three where he lived until he was nineteen years old. Holladay Married Kira in 2001 and lived in California with his wife, and 4 children. He now lives in Utah and teaches several courses at Brigham Young University including Shader Programming, Visual Effects, and Game Development. His interest in art started when he was a young child and often dreamed of animating for Disney. Returning to Brigham Young University after a 7-month internship at Pixar in 2005, Holladay said "I've always had an interest in animals and arts. When I was 3, I loved Donald Duck." ^[2] Holladay studied to receive his MA from BYU while at the same time working for Pixar. On May 29, 2007 he defended his thesis which was titled "Intelligent Rotoscoping: A Semi-Automated Interactive Boundary Tracking Approach to Video Segmentation".^[3] His dream of working for Disney was realized in 2006 with Disney's acquisition of Pixar.^[4]

Holladay is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served an LDS mission (1997-1999) in Córdoba, Argentina, where he learned to speak Spanish.

Career

Holladay started his career in animation as an intern at Pixar in 2005. Following his 7-month internship he finished his master's degree at BYU. In 2006, Holladay returned to Pixar as a full-time employee as an effects artist. ^[5]

Since his time at Pixar, Holladay has continued to be a major influence in animation. Currently, he heads the Emmy award winning^[6] gaming animation track. ^[7]

Filmography

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