To infinity and beyond

Bob Whitehill is known as “The 3D Guy” at Pixar Animation Studios and considering that a CGI movie is ­relatively easy to convert into 3D, you’d think that he just sits around as every new animated feature is re-rendered into 3D while he waits.

While it’s true that there is some waiting time involved as the renderfarm at Pixar renders a second movie with the character and background elements slightly shifted to make a stereoscopic movie, Whitehill’s job involves a lot more work than one would think.