Ed Natividad

Ed Natividad studied transportation design in Detroit, Michigan. An internship at GM’s Advanced Concept Center in Thousand Oaks, California, brought him to the West Coast, where he saw the potential for designing in film. He returned to Detroit to finish his final semesters, but took issue with the school’s required curriculum. Ultimately, he was expelled from school for reasons not known, ensuring that he would not work in the automotive industry any time soon. Jumping in a car and driving west for three days without a safety net was not necessarily a bad thing. It wasn’t as easy as Natividad thought either. He now works in the film industry on various productions such as Star Wars: Episodes I & II, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and I, Robot.