| Intro | American computer scientist |
| Is |
Scientist Computer scientist |
| From | United States of America |
| Type |
Technology Science |
| Gender | female |
Danielle Feinberg is an American cinematographer and Director of Photography for Lighting at Pixar. She directed lighting for the Academy Award-winning films WALL-E and Brave and is now working on the upcoming Pixar film, Coco.
Life and career
Danielle Feinberg was born in Boulder, Colorado and graduated from Boulder High School. Growing up, she attended summer camps and after-school programs for students interested in computer programming and engineering. She attended Harvard University, where she was introduced to computer animation in a computer graphics course during her junior year. She graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in computer science.
After graduating from Harvard, she started working at Pixar in February 1997 as a technician managing the large libraries of data and images for rendering A Bug’s Life. She has since been credited for leading work in visual effects, technical direction, and graphics.
In 2015, she appeared in the documentary Code: Debugging the Gender Gap.
Filmography
Feature films
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | A Bug’s Life | lead render technical director | |
| 1999 | Toy Story 2 | master lighting artist | |
| 2001 | Monsters, Inc | master lighting artist | |
| 2003 | Finding Nemo | computer graphics supervisor | lead development on ocean graphics unit |
| 2004 | The Incredibles | lead lighting artist | |
| 2007 | Ratatouille | master lighting artist | |
| 2008 | WALL-E | director of photography in lighting | |
| 2012 | Brave | director of photography in lighting | |
| 2015 | Inside Out | master lighting artist |
Short films
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Exploring the Reef | technical supervisor | short documentary film distributed with Finding Nemo |
| 2006 | Lifted | lighting artist | |
| 2008 | BURN-E | lighting consultant |