Editing Edwin Catmull (section)

===Early career===
In 1974, Catmull earned his doctorate in [[computer science]],<ref name="catmullphd">{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|first=Edwin Earl|last=Catmull|title=A subdivision algorithm for computer display of curved surfaces|publisher=University of Utah|date=1974|url=https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zan6df|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926123743/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a004968.pdf#page=3|url-status=live|archive-date=September 26, 2020}}</ref> and was hired by a company called [[Applicon]]. By November of that year, he had been contacted by [[Alexander Schure]], the founder of the [[New York Institute of Technology]], who offered him the position as the director of the institute's new [[New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab|Computer Graphics Lab]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1883592|title=A Conversation with Ed Catmull|last=Hanrahan|first=Pat|date=November 13, 2010|website=queue.acm.org|access-date=June 27, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/profiles/edwin-catmull|title=Edwin Catmull|date=2008|language=en-US|access-date=June 27, 2019}}</ref> In that position, in 1977, he invented Tween, software for 2D animation that automatically produced frames of motion in between two frames.{{sfn|Catmull|Wallace|p=24|ps=none}}

However, Catmull's team lacked the ability to tell a story effectively via film, harming the effort to produce a motion picture via a computer.{{sfn|Catmull|Wallace|p=25|ps=none}} Catmull and his partner, [[Alvy Ray Smith]], attempted to reach out to studios to alleviate this issue, but were generally unsuccessful until they attracted the attention of [[George Lucas]] at [[Lucasfilm]].{{sfn|Catmull|Wallace|pp=25–27|ps=none}}