Danielle Feinberg facts for kids

Danielle Feinberg is an amazing American artist and scientist. She works at Pixar Animation Studios as a Director of Photography for Lighting. This means she helps make sure the lighting in animated movies looks just right! She also supervises visual effects. Danielle helped create the lighting for famous movies like WALL-E, Brave, and Coco. She was also the visual effects supervisor for Turning Red.

Danielle's Early Life and Education

Danielle Feinberg was born in Boulder, Colorado. When she was growing up, she loved learning about computers. She went to summer camps and after-school programs to study computer programming and engineering.

Discovering Computer Animation

Danielle later went to Harvard University. There, she took a class called computer graphics. This class showed her how computers could be used to create animation. She graduated in 1996 with a degree in computer science.

Starting Her Career at Pixar

After college, Danielle started working at Pixar in February 1997. Her first job was helping to manage all the computer information and images for the movie A Bug's Life.

Her Roles at Pixar

Since then, Danielle has worked on many different parts of making animated movies. She has led teams in visual effects, which are all the special tricks that make movies look magical. She has also worked as a technical director, helping with the computer side of things, and in computer graphics.

Inspiring Others in STEM

Outside of her work at Pixar, Danielle loves to help young girls get excited about STEM. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. She works with groups like Girls Who Code.

Speaking Out for STEM

Danielle gives talks all over the world. She uses these talks to encourage girls to study STEM subjects. For example, she gave an inspiring speech that helped start "Made with Code," a program by Google.

Featured in Documentaries

In 2015, Danielle appeared in a documentary called Code: Debugging the Gender Gap. This film looked at why there aren't as many women in computer science. In November 2015, she gave a special talk about science and art at TED Talks Live. This talk was even shown on PBS. In 2022, she was featured in a documentary called Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red. This film highlighted the women leaders behind the movie Turning Red.

Danielle's Film Projects

Danielle has worked on many popular animated movies and short films. She has helped bring these stories to life with her skills in lighting and visual effects.

Feature Films She Worked On

Short Films She Worked On

Awards and Recognition

Danielle Feinberg has received many awards for her amazing work and for inspiring others.

See also

• List of Pixar films
• List of Pixar shorts
• Women in computing