Darrin Butts

CG Animator

Biography

biography

Darrin Butts is a computer animator with over 13 years of experience in the film industry.  He has worked with a wide variety of platforms, both proprietary and off-the-shelf, and his screen credits include Fantasia 2000, Dinosaur, Shrek 2, and Meet the Robinsons.  

 

As a graduate student in Visualization at Texas A&M University, his animated film, Legacy, won the Prix Ars Electronica, and was screened in the Animation Theater at Siggraph in 1993.  

 

His outside interests include travel, techie gadgets and gardening, and he is a long time volunteer with the Los Angeles Zoo's Behavioral Research department.  He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, one parrot, and 7 finches.