Comment by orenjacob

I developed the curriculum for and then taught the first Pixar University course for newly hired Technical Directors (10 weeks, full time, from day 1 when you started). That was probably around the Summer of 1996 as the studio was growing rapidly to staff up for A Bugs Life. Randy joined some short time after to help grow PU from the 2 new-hire courses (technical and animation) into the much broader curriculum that it has grown into over the subsequent 20 years. I was a close friend of Randy’s then, and still consider him one. He is an amazing person in many ways. And when my wife and I got married in 2001, he was the master of ceremonies at our wedding. :-)