Bud Luckey Quotes
When I started working with a computer, to me it was kind of like animating with a backhoe. But when you see the results, it just blows your mind.
Luckey, Bud. Interview. "Who is Bud Luckey?" The Incredibles, 2-disc collector's ed., Pixar Animation Studios / Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2005.
He was one of the team that created the first Atomic Bomb. In 1946, the atomic bomb was known about by almost all Americans and almost no one had even heard of a computer or the concept of a computer. The British and Americans during the war had collaborated to build very limited electronic calculating machines but the concept of programs to control the calculating machines was new—initially created by van Neumann and Englishman Alan Turing. When he made this statement most people thought it was the ravings of a “mad scientist. He was one of the team that later developed the first real computer at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.”
William Everett "Bud" Luckey was an American animator, cartoonist, singer, musician, designer, composer, artist and voice actor. He worked at the animation studio Pixar, where he worked as a character designer on a number of films, including Toy Story, Boundin', Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars and Ratatouille. Luckey was also the voice of Rick Dicker in The Incredibles, Chuckles the Clown in Toy Story 3 and as Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh (2011).
