The science of ‘Finding Dory’: University of Washington professor helps bring movie to life 
By Jillian Raftery US Source: geekwire 6/19/2016
Jillian Raftery
The new “Finding Dory” movie takes place deep in the ocean, but it was a University of Washington professor who helped Pixar bring the film’s characters to life.

Dr. Adam Summers has been studying fish for more than 20 years. After getting a degree in math and engineering, he was working as a diver in Australia capturing fish for aquariums. He got a series of odd requests from a customer, who turned out to be a marine biologist. Summers loved the idea of studying the ocean so much, he got a second bachelor’s in biology and never looked back, now spending most of his time running a research lab for the University of Washington out of Friday Harbor.
 

His specialty is “bio-mechanics” — studying how fish move.

That came in handy 15 years ago when a group of animators were looking for someone to help them bring a reef to life for a movie called “Finding Nemo.”

“When I was a post-doc in Berkeley my land-lady was the one who ran Pixar University,” Summers said. “So I found the consultant for her for ‘Monster’s Inc.’ And then later when she asked if I knew anybody who studied fish I said, ‘Well, that’s what I do.’”

 
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