This man is as of  April 2012, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
This man invented independently from Wolfgang Strasser the Z-buffer. With Clark, this man names a  method for subdividing meshes. This man co-names a cubic hermite interpolation where the tangent is  proportional to the vector between the preceding and next control points and that interpolation was  developed with Rom. He helped develop Renderman. For a graduate school class he created a clip of a moving  model of his hand. That clip is one of the earliest examples of computer rendered 3D animation. This man is as of  April 2012, president of Walt Disney Animation Studios. For 10 points, name this computer graphics pioneer and  co-founder of Pixar.
This man invented independently from Wolfgang Strasser the Z-buffer.
Edwin Catmull