Pixar Animation Studios, commonly known as Pixar (), is an American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios owned by The Walt Disney Company. Pixar began in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division, known as the Graphics Group, before its spin-off as a corporation on February 3, 1986, with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. Disney purchased Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion by converting each share of Pixar stock to 2.3 shares of Disney stock, a transaction that resulted in Jobs becoming Disney's largest single shareholder at the time.
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Albany
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Yes, it has Dutch, Germans, English,  Italians and Poles, to name a few.
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The Ten Broeck Mansion, USS "Slater" (DE-766) museum ship.
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Yes, Tech Valley is a marketing name for the eastern part - a high-tech competitor to regions such as Silicon Valley and Boston.
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The word "silicon" in the name originally referred to the large number of innovators and manufacturers in the region specializing in silicon-based MOS transistors and integrated circuit chips.
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Yes, the Homebrew Computer Club
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An early computer hobbyist group - played an influential role in the development of the microcomputer revolution and the rise of that aspect of the Silicon Valley information technology industrial complex.
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March 1975
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who are its members?
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, George Morrow, John Draper
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He was born to Abdulfattah Jandali and Joanne Schieble, and was adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs (née Hagopian).
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He was a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar.
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While Disney Animation and Disneytoon are located in the Los Angeles area, Pixar is located over 350 miles (563 kilometers) northwest in the Bay Area, where Catmull and Lasseter both live. Accordingly, they appointed a general manager for each studio to manage day-to-day business affairs, then established a routine of spending at least two days per week (usually Tuesdays and Wednesdays) in Southern California.
John Lasseter | Return to Disney
In 1986, Steve Jobs bought Lucasfilm's digital division and founded Pixar, where Catmull would work. Pixar would be acquired by Disney in 2006. In June 2007, Catmull and long-time Pixar digital animator and director John Lasseter were given control of Disneytoon Studios, a division of Disney Animation housed in a separate facility in Glendale. As president and chief creative officer, respectively, they have supervised three separate studios for Disney, each with its own production pipeline: Pixar, Disney Animation, and Disneytoon. While Disney Animation and Disneytoon are located in the Los Angeles area, Pixar is located over 350 miles (563 kilometers) northwest in the San Francisco Bay Area, where Catmull and Lasseter both live.
Edwin Catmull | Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios, commonly known as Pixar (), is an American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios owned by The Walt Disney Company. Pixar began in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division, known as the Graphics Group, before its spin-off as a corporation on February 3, 1986, with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. Disney purchased Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion by converting each share of Pixar stock to 2.3 shares of Disney stock, a transaction that resulted in Jobs becoming Disney's largest single shareholder at the time.
Pixar | Introduction
A company spokesperson said the work done in Vancouver, would be transferred to the company's headquarters, in Burbank, California.
Pixar Canada | History
Pixar Canada was a wholly owned subsidiary of Pixar Animation Studios. It was located in Vancouver, British Columbia. The studio was tasked to produce short films, based on Pixar's feature film characters. Pixar Animation Studios permanently closed Pixar Canada in October 2013, and laid off its approximately one hundred employees, to refocus Pixar's efforts at its main headquarters, in Emeryville, California. The former studio space is currently Industrial Light & Magic's studio in Vancouver.
Pixar Canada | Introduction
Pixar () is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio is best known for its CGI-animated feature films created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface used to generate high-quality images. Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the computer division of Lucasfilm before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. Pixar and Disney had a seven feature agreement that allowed Disney to distribute the films with Disney owing the character rights.
List of animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company | Pixar
Pixar or Pixar Animation Studios, is an American computer animation studio currently owned by Disney. Pixar may also refer to:
Pixar (disambiguation) | Introduction
While some of Pixar's first animators were former cel animators including John Lasseter, they also came from computer animation or were fresh college graduates. A large number of animators that make up the animation department at Pixar were hired around the time the studio released "A Bug's Life" (1998), "Monsters, Inc." (2001) and "Finding Nemo" (2003). Although "Toy Story" (1995) was a successful film, it was Pixar's first feature film at the time, becoming the first major computer-animation studio to successfully produce theatrical feature films. The majority of the animation industry was (and still is) located in Los Angeles while Pixar is located north in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Pixar | Traditions
Pixar's location in Emeryville, California, had a hidden room hidden by a sliding bookcase. It was initially discovered by Pixar animator Andrew Gordon, who opened a hatch door in his office that revealed a hidden room that was designed to provide maintenance workers "access to a portion of the building's ventilation system". Gordon eventually converted the room into a full bar with furniture and carpet, and added a camera in the office aimed at the door to provide warning about anyone approaching. The space was called "Lucky 7 Lounge" and the "Love Lounge". The sliding bookcase was made operational by "a switch hidden in a bust of Shakespeare".
Sliding bookcase | Pixar
Circle 7 Animation (or Disney Circle 7 Animation) was a short lived division of Walt Disney Feature Animation specializing in computer-generated imagery (CGI) animation, and was originally intended to create sequels, to the Disney owned properties of Pixar, leading rivals, and animators, to derisively nickname the division “Pixaren’t”. The studio did not release any films during its existence, nor were any of its scripts used by Pixar. The division was named after the street where its studio was located. Circle Seven Drive, in Glendale, California, is also home to KABC-TV.
Circle 7 Animation | Introduction
Some of those conditions were that Pixar HR policies would remain intact, including the lack of employment contracts. Also, the Pixar name was guaranteed to continue, and the studio would remain in its current Emeryville, California, location with the "Pixar" sign. Finally, branding of films made post-merger would be "Disney•Pixar" (beginning with "Cars").
Pixar | Disney subsidiary
Pixar Canada was established in 2009, and officially opened on April 20, 2010, in the area of Gastown, of Vancouver, British Columbia. The location was chosen for tax incentive reasons, for Vancouver's computer generated animation talent pool, and for time zone compatibility with the studio in Hollywood. The studio's initial three year plan was to produce animated short films, based on established film characters by Pixar, to be shown in all of the related businesses within Disney, including television, DVD compilations, internet, theme park attractions, and theatrical presentations. Post production and stereoscopic work in 3D, remained in the hands of the main studio of Pixar in Emeryville, California.
Pixar Canada | History
On April 20, 2010, Pixar opened Pixar Canada in the downtown area of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The roughly 2,000 square meters studio produced seven short films based on "Toy Story" and "Cars" characters. In October 2013, the studio was closed down to refocus Pixar's efforts at its main headquarters.
Pixar | Expansion
Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI film production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. Pixar has released 22 feature films, which were all released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through the Walt Disney Pictures banner with their first being "Toy Story" (which was also the first feature-length CGI film ever released), in 1995 and their latest being "Onward" in 2020. Their upcoming slate of films includes "Soul" (2020) and "Luca" (2021), two untitled films in 2022, and an untitled film in 2023.
List of Pixar films | Introduction
BYU animation student Emron Grover, for example, was the digital tailor for Pixar's 'Coco'. Ed Catmull, former president of Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios, visited BYU and remarked, "It’s the perception not just of Pixar, but also at the other studios, that something pretty remarkable is happening here."
BYU Center for Animation | Introduction
Pixar Animation Studios is a CGI animation production company based in Emeryville, California, United States. Created in 1979 as a division of Lucasfilm, it has been a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company since 2006. Feature films produced by Pixar have won numerous awards, including sixteen Academy Awards, ten Golden Globe Awards and eleven Grammy Awards. The following is a list of all the feature films Pixar has released with the nominations and awards they received.
List of Pixar awards and nominations (feature films) | Introduction
When Steve Jobs, chief executive officer of Apple Inc. and Pixar, and John Lasseter, then-executive vice president of Pixar, decided to move their studios from a leased space in Point Richmond, California, to larger quarters of their own, they chose a 20-acre site in Emeryville, California, formerly occupied by Del Monte Foods, Inc. The first building of several, a high-tech structure designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, has special foundations and generators to ensure continued film production, even through major earthquakes. The character of the building is intended to abstractly recall Emeryville's industrial past. The two-story steel-and-masonry building is a collaborative space with many pathways.
Pixar | Campus
The most popular and successful competitor in the CGI race turned out to be Pixar. It originated in 1979 when George Lucas' Lucasfilm was able to recruit Edwin Catmull from the New York Institute of Technology to start the Graphics Group of its special-effects division. In late 1983, Catmull was able to bring in as a freelance independent contractor a Disney animator, John Lasseter, not long after Lasseter (then unbeknownst to Catmull) had been fired by the Walt Disney Company for his vigorous advocacy of computer animation; Lasseter was hired as a full-time employee about a year later. Lucas experienced cash flow issues after his 1983 divorce, and in 1986 Pixar was spun off from Lucasfilm as a separate corporation with $10 million in capital from Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs.
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Pixar celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2016 with the release of its seventeenth feature film "Finding Dory", and put together another milestone exhibition. The exhibition first opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan from March 5, 2016 to May 29, 2016. It subsequently moved to the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum National Museum of History, Dongdaemun Design Plaza where it ended on March 5, 2018 at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum.
Pixar | "Pixar: 30 Years of Animation"
"The Science Behind Pixar" is a travelling exhibition that first opened on June 28, 2015, at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts. It was developed by the Museum of Science in collaboration with Pixar. The exhibit features forty interactive elements that explain the production pipeline at Pixar. They are divided into eight sections, each demonstrating a step in the filmmaking process: Modeling, Rigging, Surfaces, Sets & Cameras, Animation, Simulation, Lighting, and Rendering. Before visitors enter the exhibit, they watch a short video at an introductory theater showing Mr. Ray from "Finding Nemo" and Roz from "Monsters, Inc.". The exhibition closed on January 10, 2016 and was moved to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where it ran from March 12 to September 5.
Pixar | "The Science Behind Pixar"
Disney was attracted to Vancouver's location because of tax incentives, and this closure comes in the wake of British Columbia incentives, falling behind those offered by Ontario and Quebec. Pixar Canada produced a number of short films, including "Air Mater", "Small Fry", and "Partysaurus Rex", since 2010. Pixar's shorts have been a proving ground, for new directors and concepts for the studio. The studio was built to develop animated shorts presenting characters by Pixar, which would be packaged with DVDs or featured on screens, through its theme parks, as an ideal way to draw attention away, from long waits for rides.
Pixar Canada | History
In November 2000, early in the production of "Monsters, Inc.", Pixar packed up and moved for the second time since its Lucasfilm years. The company's approximately 500 employees had become spread among three buildings, separated by a busy highway. The company moved from Point Richmond to a much bigger campus in Emeryville, co-designed by Lasseter and Steve Jobs. In production, the film differed from earlier Pixar features, as every main character in this movie had its own lead animator – John Kahrs on Sulley, Andrew Gordon on Mike, and Dave DeVan on Boo. Kahrs found that the "bearlike quality" of Goodman's voice provided an exceptionally good fit with the character.
Monsters, Inc. | Animation
Jobs, wanted Pixar, to receive most of the profits that their films made (giving Disney the standard distribution fee, of 10%) as well as full ownership of any future films and characters, that the studio would create after "Cars" (2006).
Circle 7 Animation | Background
The following is an alphabetic list of Disney/Pixar characters, in feature films, shorts and specials originally conceived by Pixar Animation Studios, which has been a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company since 2006. Franchises
List of Pixar characters | Introduction
This scene featured an Etch A Sketch being used to present sketches related to the investigation of Woody's kidnapping. At 45 seconds, the scene in question was much longer than the scene in the original movie. The exposure from the highly successful Pixar movie resulted in sales of the toy increasing by 20 percent and ensured the survival of the company.
Ohio Art Company | History
The exhibition moved to three Spanish cities later in 2014 and 2015: Madrid (held in CaixaForum from March 21 until June 22), Barcelona (held also in Caixaforum from February until May) and Zaragoza. "Pixar: 25 Years of Animation" includes all of the artwork from "Pixar: 20 Years of Animation", plus art from "Ratatouille", "WALL-E", "Up" and "Toy Story 3".
Pixar | "Pixar: 25 Years of Animation"
Eggman Movers is a fictional moving company that has an anthropomorphic egg with a hat as a mascot and appears mostly throughout the "Toy Story" franchise. The company's name is a reference to Pixar production designer Ralph Eggleston.
List of Pixar film references | Eggman Movers
Afterwards, it moved to the California Science Center in Los Angeles, California and was open from October 15, 2016 to April 9, 2017. It made another stop at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, Minnesota from May 27 through September 4, 2017. The exhibition opened in Canada on July 1, 2017, at the TELUS World of Science – Edmonton (TWOSE).
Pixar | "The Science Behind Pixar"
By then, Jobs had become the owner of Pixar by keeping it alive with additional investments over the years; he had often considered selling it but changed his mind after "Toy Story". Pixar's string of critical and box-office successes continued with "Monsters, Inc.", "Finding Nemo", "The Incredibles", "Cars", "Ratatouille", "WALL-E", "Up" and "Toy Story 3" all receiving rave reviews, earning huge profits, winning awards, and overshadowing Disney's in-house offerings until "Cars 2" in 2011 ended the streak when it proved a critical disappointment, albeit still a commercial success. Disney produced a CGI/live-action feature film of its own without Pixar ("Dinosaur"), but the film received a mixed reaction, even though it was a financial success.
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To avoid overt product placement in Pixar films, a series of fictional companies are used as placeholders. Some appear only in one franchise (such as fictional NASCAR sponsors in "Cars") but others serve as recurring themes.
List of Pixar film references | Companies
These Pixar films contain the following references to Apple Inc..
List of Pixar film references | Apple
Circle 7 Animation, or Disney Circle 7 Animation, was a short-lived division of Walt Disney Feature Animation specializing in computer generated imagery (CGI) animation and was originally going to work on making sequels to the Disney-owned Pixar properties, leading rivals and animators to derisively nickname the division "Pixaren't". The company released no movies during its tenure. Steve Jobs, Pixar CEO, announced in January 2004 that Pixar would not renew their agreement with Disney and would seek out other distributors for releases starting in 2006. In 2004, Disney Circle 7 Animation was formed as a CG animation studio to create sequels to the Disney-owned Pixar properties.
List of animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company | Disney Circle 7 Animation
The Pixar Image Computer is a graphics computer originally developed by the Graphics Group, the computer division of Lucasfilm, which was later renamed Pixar. Aimed at commercial and scientific high-end visualization markets, such as medicine, geophysics and meteorology, the original machine was advanced for its time, but did not sell in quantity.
Pixar Image Computer | Introduction
Walt Disney Feature Animation, whose parent company later purchased Pixar in 2006, used dozens of the Pixar Image Computers for their Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) and was using them in production up through "Pocahontas" in 1995.
Pixar Image Computer | Usage
In 2003, noting the growing success of studios that relied on computer animation, executive Bob Lambert announced Walt Disney Feature Animation would be converted into a CGI studio. Two years later, "Chicken Little", the first computer-animated film from the studio, was released to moderate success in the box office and mixed critical reception. On January 24, 2006, Disney announced that it would be acquiring Pixar (the deal successfully closed that May), and as part of the acquisition, executives Edwin Catmull and John Lasseter assumed control of Walt Disney Feature Animation as President and Chief Creative Officer, respectively. Lasseter later acknowledged that there had been discussions back in 2006 about closing Feature Animation as redundant since Disney now owned Pixar, which he and Catmull flatly rejected ("Not on our watch.
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In 1985, while still at Lucasfilm, they had made a deal with the Japanese publisher Shogakukan to make a computer-animated movie called "Monkey", based on the Monkey King. The project continued sometime after they became a separate company in 1986, but in the end, it became clear that the technology was simply not there yet. The computers were not powerful enough and the budget would be too high. So it was decided to focus on the computer hardware business some more years while waiting until Moore's law made a computer-animated feature possible. At the time Walt Disney Studios was interested and eventually bought and used the Pixar Image Computer and custom software written by Pixar as part of their Computer Animation Production System (CAPS) project, to migrate the laborious ink and paint part of the 2D animation process to a more automated method.
Pixar | Independent company
These Pixar films contain the following references to "Monsters, Inc." or "Monsters University":
List of Pixar film references | "Monsters, Inc." franchise
Pixar celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011 with the release of its twelfth feature film "Cars 2", and held an exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California from July 2010 until January 2011. The exhibition tour debuted in Hong Kong and was held at the Hong Kong Heritage Museum in Sha Tin from March 27 to July 11, 2011. In 2013, the exhibition was held in the EXPO in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For 6 months from July 6, 2012 until January 6, 2013 the city of Bonn (Germany) hosted the public showing, On November 16, 2013, the exhibition moved to the Art Ludique museum in Paris, France with a scheduled run until March 2, 2014.
Pixar | "Pixar: 25 Years of Animation"
"" is a traditionally animated direct-to-video film produced by DisneyToon Studios with an opening sequence created by Pixar. The film was released on August 8, 2000, and led to a television series, with Pixar creating the CGI portion of the opening theme.
List of Pixar films | Co-production
This is a list of past and present Pixar Animation Studios employees who have served as Pixar's primary directors and creative executives.
List of Pixar staff | Introduction
Eventually, Baena left ILM for Pixar in 2002 where he worked on the films "Finding Nemo", "The Incredibles", "Cars", "Ratatouille", "WALL-E", and "Toy Story 3" as well as the short film "Boundin'".
Carlos Baena (animator) | Background
The Computer Graphics Lab was a computer lab located at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) in the late 1970s and 1980s, founded by Dr. Alexander Schure. It was originally located at the "pink building" on the NYIT campus. The lab was initially founded to produce a short high-quality feature film with the project name of "The Works". The feature, which was never completed, was a 90-minute feature that was to be the first entirely computer-generated CGI movie. Production mainly focused around DEC PDP and VAX machines. Many of the original CGL team now form the elite of the CG and computer world with members going on to Silicon Graphics, Microsoft, Cisco, NVIDIA and others, including Pixar president, co-founder and Turing laureate Ed Catmull, Pixar co-founder and Microsoft graphics fellow Alvy Ray Smith, Pixar co-founder Ralph Guggenheim, Walt Disney Animation Studios chief scientist Lance Williams, Netscape and Silicon Graphics founder Jim Clark, Tableau co-founder and Turing laureate Pat Hanrahan, Microsoft graphics fellow Jim Blinn, Thad Beier, Oscar and Bafta nominee Jacques Stroweis, Andrew Glassner, and Tom Brigham.
New York Institute of Technology Computer Graphics Lab | Introduction
Edwin Earl "Ed" Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist who was co-founder of Pixar and president of Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics.
Edwin Catmull | Introduction
Pixar got its start in 1974 when New York Institute of Technology's (NYIT) founder, Alexander Schure, who was also the owner of a traditional animation studio, established the Computer Graphics Lab (CGL), recruited computer scientists who shared his ambitions about creating the world's first computer-animated film. Edwin Catmull and Malcolm Blanchard were the first to be hired and were soon joined by Alvy Ray Smith and David DiFrancesco some months later, which were the four original members of the Computer Graphics Lab. Schure kept pouring money into the computer graphics lab, an estimated $15 million, giving the group everything they desired and driving NYIT into serious financial troubles.
Pixar | Early history
The Animation Picture Company is an American animation studio in Sherman Oaks, California. It was founded in late 2006 by Dan Chuba, John Davis, Mark A.Z. Dippé, Brain Manis, and Ash Shah.
The Animation Picture Company | Introduction
Plans for a second "Monsters, Inc." film existed since 2005. Following disagreements between Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs, Disney—which owned the rights to make sequels to all of Pixar's films up to "Cars—"announced that a sequel to "Monsters, Inc." would be made by Circle 7 Animation (named after the street where its studio was located, and an often-used television station logo in the United States, designed in the early 1960s for the American Broadcasting Company's five owned-and-operated stations (all of which broadcast on VHF channel 7), which was also working on early drafts of "Toy Story 3" & "Finding Nemo 2".
Monsters University | Production
A. J. Riebli (born August 27, 1969) is an executive and voice actor at Pixar.
A. J. Riebli | Introduction
He worked on television cartoons and commercials for several studios, including Kennedy Cartoons in Toronto and Colossal Pictures in San Francisco before joining Pixar in June 1996. He worked as animator on "Darkwing Duck", and "Goof Troop" while at Kennedy Cartoons.
Dan Lee (animator) | Career
The film premiered on BBC Two in the United Kingdom.
The Pixar Story | Introduction
Poultry Palace is a fictional chicken-based fast-food chain that first appears in the Toy Story short "Small Fry".
List of Pixar film references | Poultry Palace
In the book, Catmull describes growing up idolizing Walt Disney and later earning degrees in physics and computer science at the University of Utah. Although he was born in West Virginia, Catmull moved to Utah as a child. Despite his interests in animation, he pursued studies in math, physics, and computer science in college. Eventually, this led him to a graduate degree under Ivan Sutherland, the "father of computer graphics," also at the University of Utah. Many decades before computer animation existed, Catmull began developing the programming to do 2D and 3D computer graphics. During this time, he was recruited to work at Lucasfilm, becoming vice president of Industrial Light and Magic's computer graphics division, until 1986 when Steve Jobs bought it and started Pixar.
Creativity, Inc. | Background
There is a Pizza Planet reference in every Pixar feature film to date except for the film "The Incredibles". Lee Unkrich has said that there is no Pizza Planet truck anywhere in "The Incredibles". Pizza Planet restaurants at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disneyland Paris are named after the site in the film and are designed to resemble it. Disneyland features a similar restaurant "Redd Rockett's Pizza Port", which shares similar themes and designs.
List of Pixar film references | Pizza Planet
In March 2005, Disney Circle 7 Animation was formed, as the studio of CGI Animation, to create sequels to the Disney owned properties of Pixar, and the studio began, to hire staff, shortly after. It was seen as the bargaining chip, by people within both Pixar and Disney, but also as the backup plan by Eisner, in the event that negotiations fell through. The first (and only) projects that the studio worked on were early drafts of "Toy Story 3", "Monsters, Inc. 2: Lost in Scaradise" (which later became "Monsters University") , and "Finding Nemo 2" (which later became "Finding Dory").
Circle 7 Animation | History
McQueen has admirers all over the world for his work, and has been hailed as one of the best animators in the field. Pixar co-founder John Lasseter called McQueen "a great animator, a great friend and a fantastic family man" and "the heart and soul of our animation department", and also said that "Glenn is not gone from us. He’s still alive in all of us." Pixar Animation Studios had plans underway to open a new studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which would be named the Glenn McQueen Pixar Animation Center to honor McQueen. It was planned to be around and be located in the downtown area of Vancouver.
Glenn McQueen | Legacy
The Disneytoon Studios unit was based in Glendale. Disney Animation's archive, formerly known as "the morgue" (based on an analogy to a morgue file) and today known as the Animation Research Library, is also located in Glendale. Unlike the Burbank buildings, the ARL is located in a nondescript office building near Disney's Grand Central Creative Campus. The 12,000-square-foot ARL is home to over 64 million items of animation artwork going back to 1924; because of its importance to the company, it requires visitors to agree to not disclose its exact location within Glendale. Previously, feature animation satellite studios were located around the world in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France (a suburb of Paris), and in Bay Lake, Florida (near Orlando, at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park).
Walt Disney Animation Studios | Locations
Presto is the proprietary software developed and used in-house by Pixar Animation Studios in the animation of its features and short films. Presto is not available for sale and is only used by Pixar. As a result, little is known outside Pixar about the detailed workings of this software. Pixar originally used its old animation software Marionette before replacing it with Presto in 2012 starting with "Brave". Pixar claims that Presto is designed to be intuitive and familiar to animators who have traditional cel animation experience. The logo for Presto was designed by Parakeet, a design studio based in Buena Park, California.
Presto (animation software) | Introduction
In September 2011, assets and core team of Sparx* in Vietnam were acquired and reopened by Virtuos Holdings Pte. Ltd., one of the largest digital entertainment contents production company headquartered in Singapore with studios in Shanghai, Chengdu, Xian, Dublin and offices in Montréal, Paris, San Francisco, Seoul and Tokyo.
Sparx Animation Studios | Introduction
In late January 2006, new Disney CEO Bob Iger and Jobs agreed to have Disney purchase Pixar which led to Disney closing Circle 7.
List of animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company | Disney Circle 7 Animation
Catmull would later go on to form his own Computer Graphics Lab, later contacted by George Lucas of Lucasfilm to bring computer graphics into the entertainment field. The Graphics Group, one third of the computer division at Lucasfilm, was later purchased in 1986 by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs, and it was renamed Pixar. Pixar produced the world's first computer-animated feature film, "Toy Story", in 1995, and has since become the world's dominant animation studio, producing a string of immensely commercially and critically successful films. Catmull has won four Academy Awards for his technical feats and helped create some of the key computer-generated imagery software animators rely on today.
A Computer Animated Hand | Legacy
These Pixar films contain references to Pixar employees.
List of Pixar film references | References
At 45 seconds, the scene in question was much longer than the scene in the original movie. The exposure from the highly successful Pixar movie resulted in sales of the toy increasing by 20 percent and ensured the survival of the company.
Etch A Sketch | History
Among others, the animated films at Pixar each involved about 4 years of Schretzmann's work. He said, "‘What took you so long? It’s kind of a backwards process. You edit first then they shoot the film later. It’s a long haul and for about the first two years we’re in the story process.” Schretzmann has been selected for membership in the American Cinema Editors.
Ken Schretzmann | Introduction
After Colossal Pictures' relationship with Pixar ended in 1992, the company hired Brad deGraff to head a new digital media division, which produced projects such as "The Moxy Show", "RoboCop: The Ride", and two Living Books games. Colossal Pictures closed BIG Pictures in 1994; that October, (C)P employees John Hays, Phil Robinson, and Jeff Fino left the company and launched a new animation studio, WildBrain.
Colossal Pictures | History
Before joining Pixar, Docter had created three non-computer animations, "Next Door", "Palm Springs", and "Winter". All three shorts were later preserved by the Academy Film Archive. He was a fan of the company's early short films, but he knew nothing about them otherwise. He commented in an October 2009 interview, "Looking back, I kind of go, what was I thinking?" He started at Pixar in 1990 at the age of 21 after Joe Ranft recommended him for John Lasseter, and began work the day after his college graduation as the tenth employee at the company's animation group and its third animator.
Pete Docter | Career
Austin Madison (born 1984) is an American animator, artist, actor, and voice actor for Pixar.
Austin Madison | Introduction
With the success of "Toy Story 2" in 1999, then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs began to disagree on how Pixar should be run and the terms of their continued relationship. Eisner claimed that Toy Story 2 would not count towards the "original" film count of the agreement. Jobs announced in January 2004 that Pixar would not renew their agreement with Disney and would seek out other distributors for releases starting in 2006. In 2004, Disney Circle 7 Animation was formed as a CG animation studio to create sequels to the Disney-owned Pixar properties. In late January 2006, new Disney CEO Bob Iger and Jobs agreed to have Disney purchase Pixar which led to Disney closing Circle 7.
List of animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company | Pixar
"Toy Story" Land is inspired by Pixar's "Toy Story" series. The area is themed to Andy's backyard with three attractions, each hosted by characters from the series. The attractions include Toy Story Mania!, an interactive 4D attraction inspired by classic carnival midway games; Slinky Dog Dash, an outdoor roller coaster; and Alien Swirling Saucers, a spinning teacup ride. The land opened on June 30, 2018. Toy Story Mania! was originally a standalone attraction within Pixar Place, an area dedicated to films and characters created by Pixar, resembling the animation studio's Emeryville, California campus. Pixar Place was also the home of Luxo Jr., a six-foot-tall audio-animatronic version of Pixar's desk-lamp mascot.
Disney's Hollywood Studios | Toy Story Land
Luckey founded his own animation studio titled the Luckey-Zamora Picture Moving Company in the early 1970s and merged its operation with Colossal Pictures in the late 1980s before joining Pixar in 1992. The company then took studio space in the Produce District of San Francisco. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was the largest animation studio in the San Francisco Bay Area. His film credits included "The Extraordinary Adventures of the Mouse and His Child".
Bud Luckey | "Sesame Street"
These Pixar films contain the following references to an assortment of other things.
List of Pixar film references | Other
Lewis left Pixar to join Digital Domain in 2011, at their Tradition Studios division in Florida where he was to direct animated features. After Digital Domain's bankruptcy filing and their shutdown and layoffs at Tradition Studios, Lewis joined Warner Bros. as a producer. He produced "Storks" which was released on September 23, 2016, and was executive producer on "The Lego Batman Movie". Lewis returned to DreamWorks Animation to produce "".
Brad Lewis | Recent
The studio focused on producing short films and TV episodes based on Pixar characters. Job qualifications were released in 2009 and the studio opened in spring 2010, producing many shorts including "Small Fry" (2011) and "Partysaurus Rex" (2012). In October 2013, the studio was closed down in order to re-focus Pixar's efforts at its main headquarters.
Glenn McQueen | Legacy
Millstein was tapped to head up Florida's replacement and Pixar sequel division, Circle 7 Animation.
List of animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company | Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
When the film screened at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California, from May 29 to July 23, 2009, it was accompanied by "Lighten Up!", a live show featuring Disney characters. Other tie-ins included children's books such as "My Name is Dug", illustrated by screenwriter Ronnie del Carmen. Despite Pixar's track record, Target Corporation and Walmart stocked few "Up" items, while Pixar's regular collaborator Thinkway Toys did not produce merchandise, claiming its story is unusual and would be hard to promote. Disney acknowledged not every Pixar film would have to become a franchise. Promotional partners include Aflac, NASCAR, and Airship Ventures, while Cluster Balloons promoted the film with a replica of Carl's couch lifted by hot air balloons for journalists to sit on.
Up (2009 film) | Marketing and release
Disney had always made all their movies in-house and refused to change this. But when Tim Burton, who used to work at Disney, wanted to buy back the rights to "The Nightmare Before Christmas", Disney struck a deal allowing him to make it as a Disney movie outside the studio. This opened the door for Pixar to make their movies outside Disney. Both sides were willing. Catmull and fellow Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith had long wanted to produce a computer-animated feature, but only by the early 1990s were the computers cheap and powerful enough to make this possible. In addition, Disney had licensed Pixar's Computer Animation Production System (CAPS), and that made it the largest customer for Pixar's computers.
Toy Story | Development
From 2009 to 2018, the stationary cars featured Mickey Mouse, while the sliding ones featured Goofy, Donald Duck, and Minnie Mouse.
Pixar Pal-A-Round | Description
Since 1995, Walt Disney Animation Studios has been headquartered in the Roy E. Disney Animation Building in Burbank, California, across Riverside Drive from The Walt Disney Studios, where the original Animation building (now housing corporate offices) is located. The Disney Animation Building's lobby is capped by a large version of the famous hat from the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment of "Fantasia" (1940), and the building is informally called the "hat building" for that reason. Disney Animation shares its site with ABC Studios, whose building is located immediately to the west. Until the mid-1990s, Disney Animation previously operated out of the Air Way complex, a cluster of old hangars, office buildings, and trailers in the Grand Central Business Centre, an industrial park on the site of the former Grand Central Airport about two miles (3.2 km) east in the city of Glendale.
Walt Disney Animation Studios | Locations
The main server is mirrored onto various others, residing in different countries. It is currently sponsored by, among others, Pixar.
Scene.org | Introduction
The film is Pixar's ninth highest-grossing film worldwide and sixth in North America. For a time, the film surpassed "Aladdin" as the second highest-grossing animated film of all time, only behind 1994's "The Lion King". In the UK, Ireland, and Malta, it earned £37,264,502 ($53,335,579) in total, marking the sixth highest-grossing animated film of all time in the country and the thirty-second highest-grossing film of all time. In Japan, although earning $4,471,902 during its opening and ranking second behind "" for the weekend, it moved to first place on subsequent weekends due to exceptionally small decreases or even increases and dominated for six weeks at the box office.
Monsters, Inc. | Box office
After the ride closed in 2018, one of the cars from the attraction was moved to the headquarters of Pixar Animation Studios in memory of Ranft.
A Bug's Land | Heimlich's Chew Chew Train
Pixar celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006 with the release of its seventh feature film "Cars", and held two exhibitions from April to June 2010 at Science Centre Singapore in Jurong East, Singapore and the London Science Museum in London. It was their first time holding an exhibition in Singapore. The exhibition highlights consist of work-in-progress sketches from various Pixar productions, clay sculptures of their characters and an autostereoscopic short showcasing a 3D version of the exhibition pieces which is projected through four projectors. Another highlight is the Zoetrope, where visitors of the exhibition are shown figurines of "Toy Story" characters "animated" in real-life through the zoetrope.
Pixar | "Pixar: 20 Years of Animation"
"Pixar: The Design of Story" was an exhibition held at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City from October 8, 2015 to September 11, 2016. The museum also hosted a presentation and conversation with John Lasseter on November 12, 2015 entitled "Design By Hand: Pixar's John Lasseter".
Pixar | "Pixar: The Design of Story"
Fox Animation Studios was an American traditional 2D hand-drawn cel-animated/CGI production company located in Phoenix, Arizona, and was the former in-house feature animation division of 20th Century Fox (which is now part of The Walt Disney Company and renamed to "20th Century Studios"). After six years of operation, the studio was shut down on June 26, 2000, ten days after the release of its final film, "Titan A.E.", and was replaced by Fox's Blue Sky Studios division.
Fox Animation Studios | Introduction
The success story of Pixar Animation Studios from the ground up.
The Pixar Story | Synopsis
The main headquarters of Assorted Nuts is located in Karlstad. A new arm of Assorted Nuts Animation Studios opened in Santa Monica, Los Angeles in 2012 under the title Assorted Nuts Entertainment and led by Lee Adams, the former Toonzone Studios Vice President of Marketing.
Assorted Nuts Animation Studios | Locations
Pixar is best known for its feature films technologically powered by RenderMan, the company's own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan Interface Specification image-rendering application programming interface. Luxo Jr., a desk lamp from the studio's 1986 short film of the same name, is the studio's mascot. Pixar has produced 22 feature films, beginning with "Toy Story" (1995), which was the first ever computer-animated feature film; its most recent film was "Soul" (2020). All of the studio's films have debuted with CinemaScore ratings of at least an "A−," which indicates a positive reception with audiences. The studio has also produced dozens of short films.
Pixar | Introduction
The name RenderMan can cause confusion because it has been used to refer to different things developed by Pixar Animation Studios:
RenderMan | Introduction
Jeff Pidgeon (born March 19, 1965) is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and voice actor at Pixar.
Jeff Pidgeon | Introduction
"Finding Nemo", "The Incredibles", "Ratatouille", "WALL-E", "Up" and "Toy Story 3" each received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, an award introduced in 2001. In 2003 and 2004, as Pixar's contract with Disney was running out, Jobs and Disney chief executive Michael Eisner tried but failed to negotiate a new partnership, and in January 2004, Jobs announced that he would never deal with Disney again. Pixar would seek a new partner to distribute its films after its contract expired.
Steve Jobs | Pixar and Disney
Since the merger with Pixar, as most of the CAPS system was discontinued, Disney's subsequent traditionally animated productions; "How to Hook Up Your Home Theater" (2007), "The Princess and the Frog" (2009), "The Ballad of Nessie" (2011), and the "Winnie the Pooh" (2011), were produced using Toon Boom Harmony computer software, which offered a more up-to-date digital animation system.
Computer Animation Production System | Decline and legacy
More importantly, as part of any distribution agreement with Disney, Pixar demanded control over films already in production under their old agreement, including "The Incredibles" (2004) and "Cars" (2006). Disney considered these conditions unacceptable, but Pixar would not concede. Disagreements between Steve Jobs and then-Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner made the negotiations more difficult than they otherwise might have been. They broke down completely in mid-2004, with Disney forming Circle 7 Animation and Jobs declaring that Pixar was actively seeking partners other than Disney. Despite this announcement and several talks with Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, and 20th Century Fox, Pixar did not enter negotiations with other distributors, although a Warner Bros.
Pixar | Collaboration with Disney
These Pixar films contain cameo appearances by Pixar employees.
List of Pixar film references | Cameos
It's just now about doing it quickly." Because Pixar no longer used the same systems from the first movie, all the characters had to be created from scratch on the computer again. The studio also used physically based human eye models for the characters for the first time, even if the eyes are larger and more stylized than in real humans.
Incredibles 2 | Animation
In 1979, he recruited the top talent from NYIT, including Catmull, Smith and Guggenheim to start his division, which later spun off as Pixar, founded in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs.
History of computer animation | NYIT
In 1986, Jobs funded the spinout of The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm's computer graphics division for the price of $10 million, $5 million of which was given to the company as capital and $5 million of which was paid to Lucasfilm for technology rights. The first film produced by Pixar with its Disney partnership, "Toy Story" (1995), with Jobs credited as executive producer, brought fame and critical acclaim to the studio when it was released. Over the next 15 years, under Pixar's creative chief John Lasseter, the company produced box-office hits "A Bug's Life" (1998); "Toy Story 2" (1999); "Monsters, Inc." (2001); "Finding Nemo" (2003); "The Incredibles" (2004); "Cars" (2006); "Ratatouille" (2007); "WALL-E" (2008); "Up" (2009); and "Toy Story 3" (2010).
Steve Jobs | Pixar and Disney
In December 2006, Lasseter announced that Disney Animation would start producing animated shorts – 2D, CGI, or a combination of both – that would be released theatrically. Lasseter said he sees this medium as an excellent way to train and discover new talent in the company as well as a testing ground for new techniques and ideas. In June 2007, Catmull and Lasseter were given control of Disneytoon Studios, a division of Walt Disney Animation Studios housed in a separate facility in Glendale. As president and chief creative officer, respectively, they have supervised three separate studios for Disney, each with its own production pipeline: Pixar, Disney Animation, and Disneytoon.
John Lasseter | Return to Disney
The studio's team of top creatives who work together closely on the development of its films is known as the Disney Story Trust; it is somewhat similar to the Pixar Braintrust, but its meetings are reportedly "more polite" than those of its Pixar counterpart.
Walt Disney Animation Studios | 2006–2009: Rebound, Disney's acquisition of Pixar, renaming
The individual "hovercrafts" from the "Pixar Pals" unit were relocated to Disneyland Paris and used for some of their special events. The Little Green Men spaceship from the "Pixar Pals" unit were relocated to Disneyland and used for the nighttime parade Paint The Night Parade.
Jubilation! | After being replaced
Morris joined Pixar Animation Studios in 2005. He was producer of Pixar's critically acclaimed 2008 film, "WALL-E", and was responsible for managing the production of the studio's features, shorts, DVD content, and theme park activities. In 2008 he was named as general manager for Pixar Animation Studios. Morris was producer of Disney's 2012 film "John Carter". On November 18, 2014 he was named as president of Pixar Animation Studios. In August 2019, former Walt Disney Animation Studios head Andrew Millstein was named as co-president of Blue Sky Studios, while Morris would also be taking a supervising role over Millstein.
Jim Morris (film producer) | Pixar
Lasseter turned the studio's offer for a directorial position down, remarking to Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull, "I can go to Disney and be a director, or I can stay here and make history." Jeffrey Katzenberg, the then-head of Walt Disney Studios, had a reputation for being difficult and controlling. In contrast, Lasseter received complete creative freedom at Pixar's small animation division and was highly respected by his colleagues. In addition to capturing Disney's interest, Pixar owner Steve Jobs' interest in the animation group was invigorated, and he approved production of another short.
Knick Knack | Background
It topped the box office in the Netherlands for three and in Spain and Australia for four consecutive weekends. In Italy, it scored the biggest animated opening of the year with $5.8 million. In China, where Pixar films have been struggling to find broad audiences and accrue lucrative revenues, the film was projected to make around $30 million in its opening weekend. The film ended up grossing $17.7 million—the highest Pixar opening in the country's history—debuting in second place behind "Warcraft". It surpassed "Monsters University" in just seven days to become the biggest Pixar film there with $38.1 million. It opened in Germany—its last market—on September 29, where the film delivered a robust opening of $8.4 million, the biggest for any film of 2016 in the country.
Finding Dory | Outside North America