Pixar Co-founder Edwin Catmull Joins Higgsfield AI Film Festival Jury
SimplyAnnisa · x · 2026-08-05
AI video generation startup Higgsfield announced that Pixar co-founder, 3D graphics pioneer, and Turing Award laureate Edwin Catmull will join the jury for its Global Film Festival.
The legendary figure behind classics like Toy Story will judge the works of the first generation of AI filmmakers, marking a deep alignment between top-tier traditional Hollywood VFX forces and AI image generation.
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