Walt Disney: The Creation Of Pixar Vs. Disney

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Do you know who Luxo Jr. is? Do you know how Mickey Mouse was thought of? Two of the biggest film making companies came to be because of an idea by two men, whose imaginations ran free and made the world fall in love with their characters. Pixar and Disney had two very different styles and this made each of them very unique in their own ways and needed to differentiate from the other in order to get ahead. Did you know that the inventor of Apple, Steve Jobs established and created the name Pixar? Pixar needed something to stand by and once Luxo Jr was created, they had their icon. I wanted to compare how these companies ran their businesses and how their plots followed in different order. These two major film companies have given me such joy since I was a kid and how my imagination grew throughout the years.

Disney has been around since the 1920s and has grown and developed throughout the years and is still expanding its variety today. The creation of Disney started with a small idea and grew from the start to where it now it. Walt’s first idea was not even Mickey Mouse it was actually a girl named Alice. Walt Disney was a very inexperienced cartoonist who did not have much to start with. "Walt Disney arrived in California in the summer of 1923 with a lot of hopes but little else. He had made a cartoon in Kansas City about a little girl in a cartoon world, called Alice’s Wonderland, and he decided that he could use it as his “pilot” film to sell a series of these