Background
Lambert was born and raised in Roanoke, Virginia.
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Bob Lambert
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Career
Lambert is widely credited with championing the transition to computer animation (Consultants to Government and Industry) within Disney and the larger entertainment industry. He received his bachelor"s degree from Virginia Technology Lambert, who was with Walt Disney Feature Animation at the time, developed the plan to transition Disney animated film production from hand-drawn, cel animation with Consultants to Government and Industry. In addition to his work with Disney, Lambert founded and chaired Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), a consortium encompassing six major film studios.
Under Lambert, DCI aided movie theaters" transition to digital exhibition, including digital cinema.
DCI established industry quality guidelines for theaters for digital content and film projection. Lambert held more than thirty patents in media technologies.
He was honored as a digital industry pioneer by ShoWest, which is now known as CinemaCon. In 2013, University of Southern California Entertainment Technology Center established the annual Bob Lambert Technology Leadership Award, and Chuck Dages (former executive vice president of emerging technologies at Warner Bros) was the first recipient.
Bob Lambert died at his home in Glendale, California, on September 7, 2012, at the age of 55.
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