A report on Pixar

A Pixar computer at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View with the 1986–95 logo on it
A Luxo Jr. figure display in Hong Kong
John Lasseter appears with characters from Up at the 2009 Venice Film Festival.
The Steve Jobs Building at the Pixar campus in Emeryville
The atrium of the Pixar campus

American computer animation studio known for its critically and commercially successful computer animated feature films.

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The Walt Disney Company

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American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.

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The original animation building at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, which they fully moved into in 1940
Walt (right) dressed as a gaucho next to Donald Duck on the companies' goodwill trip to South America in Argentina
Walt (center) showing the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954
Walt Disney at the grand opening of Disneyland on July 17, 1955
The Sherman Brothers, who composed many of the Disney songs throughout the 1960s, in 2002
Walt, then Florida Governor Hayden Burns, and Roy announcing the plans for Disney World
A view of downtown Celebration, Florida, a community that was planned by the Walt Disney Company.
The Disney Magic of the Disney Cruise Line at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
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Team Disney Burbank, which houses the offices of Disney's CEO and several other senior corporate officials
The entrance to the Fox Studios lot.
Parade route in Tokyo Disneyland during COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.
20th Century Studios, a subsidiary of Disney
Michael Eisner replaced Ron Miller as CEO and made Disney into a major film studio again.
Searchlight Pictures, a subsidiary of Disney
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Disney's video streaming subscription service Disney+ was launched in 2019, which has a total of over 135 million subscriptions as of June 2022.
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The company is known for its film studio division, Walt Disney Studios, which includes Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, 20th Century Animation, and Searchlight Pictures.

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Toy Story 3

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Kristen Schaal and Jeff Garlin, who attended the Toy Story 3 panel at the 2010 WonderCon, joined the cast as Trixie and Buttercup, respectively.
Promotional art for Circle 7's Toy Story 3 at Siggraph 2005, displaying the storyline of the recalled Buzz Lightyears.
Lee Unkrich, pictured at the Toy Story 3 panel at WonderCon in April 2010, was the full-time director for the film.
Toy Story 3 had its United States premiere at El Capitan Theatre, which also hosted a Toy Story marathon showing all three films together for the first time.
Joan Cusack, who voiced Jessie in the film, signing Toy Story 3 merchandise.
Quentin Tarantino placed the film at the top position in his list of favorite films of 2010.

Toy Story 3 is a 2010 American computer-animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.

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Toy Story

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The El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, where Toy Storys premiere took place on November 19, 1995.
Lasseter with the Special Achievement Oscar

Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated comedy film directed by John Lasseter (in his feature directorial debut); produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

Walt Disney Animation Studios

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American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company.

American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company.

The building on Kingswell Avenue in Los Feliz which was home to the studio from 1923 to 1926
Walt Disney introduces each of the Seven Dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer.
The original Animation Building at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, the headquarters of the animation department from 1940 to 1985.
Roy E. Disney (Chairman, 1985–2003), nephew of Walt Disney, was a key figure in restructuring the animation department following the reorganization of the Disney company in 1984.
1400 Flower Street in Glendale, California, one of several buildings used by Walt Disney Feature Animation between 1985 and 1995.
1400 Air Way, another Glendale building used by Walt Disney Feature Animation between 1985 and 1995.
622/610 Circle 7 Drive (the Hart-Dannon Building), another Glendale building used by Walt Disney Feature Animation during the early 1990s.
Walt Disney Feature Animation logo, used from 1997 to 2007.
John Lasseter (Chief Creative Officer, 2006–2018, left) and Edwin Catmull (President, 2006–2018, right) came to Disney following its acquisition of Pixar and dedicated themselves to revitalizing Walt Disney Animation Studios after the studio's unsuccessful early 2000s period.
The south side of the Roy E. Disney Animation Building, as seen from the public park that separates it from the Ventura Freeway.

Its current name was adopted in 2007 after Pixar Animation Studios was acquired by Disney in the previous year.

Lasseter in 2011

John Lasseter

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American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, voice actor, and the head of animation at Skydance Animation.

American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, voice actor, and the head of animation at Skydance Animation.

Lasseter in 2011
Lasseter in 2002.
Lasseter with George Lucas at the Venice Film Festival in 2009.
John Lasseter with his wife Nancy Lasseter at the 2006 Annie Awards red carpet at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California.

He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering.

Steve Jobs

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American entrepreneur, industrial designer, business magnate, media proprietor, and investor.

American entrepreneur, industrial designer, business magnate, media proprietor, and investor.

Childhood family home of Steve Jobs on Crist Drive in Los Altos, California, that served as the original site of Apple Computer. The home was added to a list of historic Los Altos sites in 2013.
Jobs's 1972 Homestead High School yearbook photo
Jobs (left) with software developer Wendell Brown in 1984
Jobs onstage at Macworld Conference & Expo, San Francisco, January 11, 2005
Jobs and Bill Gates at the fifth D: All Things Digital conference (D5) in May 2007
Jobs demonstrating the iPhone 4 to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on June 23, 2010
Flags flying at half-staff outside Apple HQ in Cupertino, on the evening of Jobs's death
An Apple II with an external modem, designed primarily by Wozniak
Jobs holding up a MacBook Air at the MacWorld Conference & Expo in 2008
The original iMac, introduced in 1998, was the first consumer-facing Apple product to debut under Jobs's return.
Jobs unveiling the iPhone at MacWorld Conference & Expo on January 9, 2007
Jobs introducing the iPad in San Francisco on January 27, 2010
Jobs's house in Palo Alto
Jobs's house, as viewed from an adjacent sidewalk. Abundant fruit trees are visible next to the house.
Statue of Jobs at Graphisoft Park, Budapest

He was the co-founder, the chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a member of The Walt Disney Company's board of directors following its acquisition of Pixar; and the founder, chairman, and CEO of NeXT.

Ratzenberger at the 2011 Time 100 gala

John Ratzenberger

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American actor and director.

American actor and director.

Ratzenberger at the 2011 Time 100 gala
Ratzenberger at the 1992 Emmy Awards
Ratzenberger at the 2008 Rhode Island International Film Festival
John Ratzenberger on the set of the series "Made in America"
John Ratzenberger portrait

After acting and directing many feature films and TV roles, Ratzenberger voiced animation characters in 22 of Pixar Animation Studios' successful feature films.

Stanton at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

Andrew Stanton

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Stanton at the 2009 Venice Film Festival

Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker and voice actor based at Pixar, which he joined in 1990.

An example of computer animation which is produced from the "motion capture" technique

Computer animation

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Process used for digitally generating animated images.

Process used for digitally generating animated images.

An example of computer animation which is produced from the "motion capture" technique
3D game character animated using skeletal animation.
In this .gif of a 2D Flash animation, each 'stick' of the figure is keyframed over time to create motion.
A ray-traced 3-D model of a jack inside a cube, and the jack alone below.

The first feature-length computer animated film is Toy Story (1995), which was made by Disney and Pixar: following an adventure centered around anthropomorphic toys and their owners, this groundbreaking film was also the first of many fully computer-animated movies.

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Monsters, Inc.

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When production began in earnest on Monsters, Inc. in 2000, Pixar relocated to a larger building in Emeryville, California.
The "door vault" scene is one of the film's most elaborate sets.
A drawing of a character for Stanley Mouse's "Excuse My Dust", a film that he had tried to sell to Hollywood in 1998

Monsters, Inc. (Monsters, Incorporated) is a 2001 American computer-animated monster comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.