CU Denver’s College of Arts & Media’s Digital Animation Center junior Jeremy Kuehn has been selected as one of nine students worldwide for a prestigious internship with PIXAR, maker of such award-winning films as “Toy Story,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles” and “Cars.”
Kuehn is studying 3D graphics and animation at the Animation Center, CU Denver’s state-of-the-art animation computer software center. Kuehn is the third DAC student to be placed in the PIXAR internship program, including Jeff Gipson, who is currently part of the Oscar-winning animation team at Disney (“Frozen”) and Zach Repasky.
“This is an absolutely amazing program,” Kuehn said about DAC. “Students here appreciate how we replicate a studio environment. It prepares you for the outside world — actual (film) studios. At PIXAR, they want to know you’re able to work on a team in a studio environment.”
Howard Cook, assistant professor and director of DAC, said PIXAR selects its summer interns from a pool of more than 10,000 applicants. “It’s a coveted internship,” Cook said. “This is quite an honor for Jeremy and a great acknowledgment of our program.”
Kuehn begins his 10-week paid scholarship at the PIXAR studios near Oakland on June 12.
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