Jordi Hays

Break it down.

What was the biggest lesson?

Ed Catmull, the founder of Pixar?

Yeah, founder of Pixar.

Catmull-Clark algorithm for subdividing meshes.

I'm familiar.

Damn.

I love it.

I didn't even know that.

Yeah, it's an algorithm.

If you have a box and you need to create more dimensions, more fidelity, you can use the Catmull Clark algorithm.

Do you go straight for the bookshelf?

I don't know.

You gotta learn about architecture.

Do like the Straussian reading of, you walk into someone and it looks like a castle and it looks like Vlad the Impaler lives there.

Yeah.

You've got to think about what's on the walls, what do they choose to put on their walls, the type of art, and how reflective they are in their careers.

There's some people that put up their movie star, they put up their own movie posters.

Other people, even though they rise to the highest heights, they might still be fans of other creators or other people or their contemporaries, or they might have Roman statues because they're obsessed with the Roman Empire.

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