WALL-E: Pixar’s Signature Serious Reflection Infused Animation Crowned the the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and countless other major film festivals all over the globe, WALL-E is a computer-animated science fiction comedy directed by Andrew Stanton and produced by Pixar Animation Studios in 2008. The film is about the last robot left on Earth Wall-E, in a far future where human beings are forced to abandon the deserted planet and live in a giant spaceship in the outer space. As a robot that has developed sentience, Wall-E longs for love and interactions with others like human beings did from the videos he sees. The arrival of EVE, a probe robot of higher technology sent back to Earth to search for the trace of vegetation, changes …show more content…
Founded by Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith in 1986 with its multiple predecessors affiliated with big names such as George Lucas and his Computer Division “The Graphics Group”, and Steve Jobs who bought the company from Lucas for five million, Pixar has become the best animation studios in the world with its short history of 30 years. As a matter of fact, Pixar’s first feature film marked the starting point of the CGI era in the history of animation. In the year of 1995, Pixar produced the first fully animated feature film in the world, Toy Story. Upon its 30th anniversary, Pixar Studios has produced 16 feature films and won 15 Academy Awards; 13 out of Pixar's 16 feature films are among the 50 highest-grossing animated films. Except for its technology advances, what makes Pixar stands out from the thousands of animation studios is its creativity and, even more crucial, insightful storytelling built on truthfulness. Pixar does not only make animations for children. It has given animated films deeper and more sophisticated layers of meanings, “all about the ability of Pixar’s animators to produce impressive, convincing computer-generated visuals that are full of warmth and humor”(Booker 79). Just as what director Andrew Stanton explained, keeping the audience being able to relate to the story and be moved by it is the ESSENCE of all the Pixar films and the key to its