A 1916 bungalow with three bedrooms and one bathroom, on a 0.1-acre lot
This house sits between the Santa Fe neighborhood in Oakland and the city of Emeryville, about two miles from Bay Street Emeryville, a large mixed-use development with shopping and restaurants. A park with a recreation center and baseball field is a few blocks away, and the headquarters of Pixar Animation Studios is a five-minute drive.
Size: 1,005 square feet
Price per square foot: $875
Indoors: A walkway cuts a path from the street to a front stoop large enough to hold a chair or bench.
The front door opens into a living room with vaulted, exposed-wood ceilings and hardwood floors that continue into a windowed dining room. On one side of the dining room is a door to a guest room, currently used as a home office. Behind the dining room is a recently renovated gray-and-white kitchen with a tiled backsplash, recessed lighting and stone countertops.
"Inside Pixar" is a documentary series of personal and cinematic stories that provide an inside look into the people, artistry and culture of Pixar Animation Studios.
Blackhawk High grad wins Oscar, brings new realism to animation
Animated movie characters, that is.
For that achievement, Iben, a 1997 Blackhawk High graduate, earned an Academy Award last weekend.
The South Beaver Township native, director of engineering for the famed Pixar film studio, officially received her prestigious Oscar award when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held a virtual ceremony on Feb. 13, bestowing Scientific And Technical Achievement Awards for 17 filmmaking innovations.
Iben and three Pixar colleagues, Mark Meyer, John Anderson and Andrew Witkin, created the Taz Hair Simulation System that brought a new level of realism to digital characters in popular animated films like 2012 s Brave and 2015 s Inside Out.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented its 2021 Scientific and Technical Awards on Saturday (Feb. 13). It recognized 17 technologies represented by 55 individuals in a virtual ceremony hosted by filmmaker Nia DaCosta.
James Cameron paid tribute to the honorees, stating: “The motion picture innovation train never stops. Its progress is in fact vital to the art form. Technical advancement is disrupting the creative process at a breakneck pace. Filmmaking shouldn’t merely keep up, it has the power to lead.”
The honorees also included three women: Hayley Iben of Pixar Animation Studios and Kelly Ward Hammel and Maryann Simmons of Walt Disney Animation Studio. This is particularly noteworthy as the technical achievements are mostly dominated by men. During the virtual ceremony, Kathleen Kennedy highlighted the achievements of women working in technical roles.