R.W. Begg, University President, presenting the Governor General's Gold Medal to Darwyn Reginald Peachey during Convocation held at Centennial Auditorium.

Bio/Historical Note: Born and raised in Saskatoon, Darwyn Peachey earned two degrees (BSC’78, MSC’83) in computer science at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1988 he moved to California to join Pixar Animation Studios, and he has been with the company ever since (2021). Peachey began his Pixar career as a software engineer developing key components of the RenderMan package, which is used to render images by many companies in the animation and visual effects industry. Peachey was one of the recipients of an Academy Award® from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for RenderMan. Peachey has worked directly as a production technical artist on several Pixar feature films. Most recently, he was the Global Technology Supervisor for Incredibles 2 (2018). Previously he worked on Toy Story (1995), Ratatouille (2007), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Coco (2017), as well as the stereoscopic 3D versions of Toy Story and Toy Story 2. Peachey was the Supervising Technical Director of ten Cars and Toy Story short films produced at Pixar Canada in Vancouver, including "Air Mater" (2011), "Small Fry" (2011), and "Partysaurus Rex" (2012). He was also the Supervising Technical Director of the Pixar short film "Sanjay’s Super Team’' (2015) which was nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Film. In addition to working directly in film production, Peachey has also served as a software developer and technology manager in Pixar’s software and IT departments. He was Pixar’s Director of Studio Tools, Vice President of Research and Development and Vice President of Technology during the period from 1996 to 2003 and led the development of film production software and IT infrastructure including Pixar’s render farm. Peachey was also the Chief Technical Officer and a co-founder of Pixar Canada, a subsidiary that operated in Vancouver from 2009 to 2013. At Pixar Canada, Peachey supervised the building of a standalone hardware and software pipeline capable of producing short films to meet Pixar’s high quality standards, and helped to hire, train and lead the production crew and technical support departments. Peachey is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, and the Visual Effects Society.