Pixar Essays

Before Pixar became the power house in the film industry that they are today, computers were not as powerful or advanced yet. When the company first came into play in 1986, the only types of animation were classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation. To this day, I am still curious how they made the first Toy Story look so real. But, while doing research I learned to find that they used 3D computer animation to make this possible. 3D animation is what makes the characters and

Pixar started its career as a computer-animated movie production company. All of Pixar’s stories, worlds, and characters were created internally by their own community of artists. As a result, Pixar has produced 8 blockbuster movies in the following 13 years. Subsequently, in 1990, Pixar became the leading technological primary company in computer animation. In 2006, Pixar merged with the Walt Disney Company. There are several fundamental challenges that Pixar is facing as a creativity-based company

The value of Pixar and Disney in an exclusive relationship is greater than the sum of the value that each could create if they operated independently of one another or form relationships with other companies because it would be the best choice for the benefit of the both companies. Despite to be a global leader in the entertainment industry, Disney has some weaknesses. The most important strengths of Disney are their strong brand recognition in the industry and their established distribution channels

Pixar's Strategy Pixar is a unique film making studio. They use ideas that boost their employee’s creativeness and in return get productive employees. The strategy that Pixar used starts from when they hire employees up to product release. To bring new products to the market Pixar depended on a few product development techniques. One of the techniques that Pixar executives used was to create their own ideas and not use cookie cutter ideas that other studios were using. This gave Pixar a competitive

have experience several things related to Pixar from a book written by the president of Pixar, a new Pixar film, a documentary about Pixar and the exhibition titled "Science behind Pixar". Thus, I would like this chance to write about what I have learned from this period of learning about Pixar and share my obsession about the company. Me with Buzz Lightyear at The Science Behing Pixar Exhbition in Museum of Science A Book written by the president of Pixar I started this journey when I decided to

Pixar is an American computer animation film company with a creativity-based business who have customers that want to see something new in the movie, which leads to the major challenge in finding good yet creative ideas within thousands of ideas, because this company involves a large number of people from different disciplines and different background. Other challenges are, in order to arise with well creative organization, the team have to work together and create supporting environment which encourage

Current Pixar President Ed Catmull is named President of new combined Disney-Pixar animation studios and John Lasseter Pixar Executive Vice President is named Chief Creative Officer of Disney and Pixar Animation Studios as well as the Principal Creative Advisor at Walt Disney Imagineering. Pixar Chairman and CEO Steve Jobs will be appointed to Disney's Board of Directors as a non-independent member; also, 11 of Disney's 14 directors will be independent. There will be a steering committee that will

Merger Walt Disney Company had been working with animation partner, Pixar since 1991 for production and distribution of animated films. In May 1991, Disney entered into an agreement with Pixar for developing and producing three computer animated feature films. According to the agreement, Disney agreed to produce movies to be developed and directed by Pixar's John Lasseter. Disney agreed to market and distribute these movies. Pixar was to be compensated based on the revenue obtained from distributing

Have you watched all of the Disney Pixar movies? If you have, you would know that The Incredibles is the best of them all. The Incredibles came out in 2004 and has been a fan favorite ever since. Everything from the action to the great characters has made this movie so entertaining. The Incredibles is the best Disney Pixar movie because of its characters, genre, and plot. The Incredibles has many well-developed characters. What I mean by this is that each character looks like they have been carefully

Top 10 Countdown: Disney-Pixar Flicks What started as a third of the Computer Graphics Division of Lucasfilms in 1979 has today become arguably the most successful computer animation studio in the world and has produced some of the most iconic animated films of all time. The creative geniuses at Disney-Pixar have over the last two decades bestowed upon us fifteen CGI (Computer Generated Imagery)-animated feature films which have not only set a qualitative industry standard but have also collectively

I really enjoyed reading this book. The author is Ed Catmull, president of Pixar. Pixar is the first company that produced an animated feature film entirely generated by computer, Toy Story. The purpose of the book is not however to tell the story of Pixar, but of the management principles that Catmull has managed to distil, together with his team, of the experience of creating Pixar and guide to its integration in Disney and beyond. Catmull focuses primarily on how to promote and protect the creativity

Because of the merger that happened ten years ago, children all over the world can now enjoy a cartoon fiesta. Pixar and Disney’s merger back in 2006 was the beginning of a beautiful cartoon era where the collaboration of both companies led to a better representation of cartoons. ”Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions” (Susan George). Companies’ mergers are beneficial acts for both, where the two or more companies combine where companies securities

Disney’ campaign and the ties with Pixar were getting worse. Bob Iger replaced Michael Eisner as CEO of Disney and collaborated with Steve Jobs to craft one of the successful mergers in history. Disney acquired Pixar in 2006 to revive its animation studio. It made a lot of strategic sense to acquire Pixar for its highly creative, innovative and technically resourceful talent and a collaborative work culture which was inimitable. Post merger synergies were great as Pixar was given the management control

This essay will discuss the difference between Pixar animation and Dreamworks animation and why Pixar animation is much popular than Dreamworks animation? Nowadays people loves to compare things, especially in animation. There are people who ask the same question after they watch the animation of Pixar and Dreamworks. Pixar creates wonderful animated movies such as Finding Nemo, Toy Story, and Monsters Inc. while Dreamworks also introduced their animation such as Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and much more

Pixar movies have always been a favorite in many households, partly because they stray away from the typical Disney princess movies and focus on a small concept with a big impact on the viewers. Lee Unkrich has a way with pixar films and was a part of some of the well known ones such as Cars, Toy story, Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc. These films all sharea theme that is important for the young viewers to watch and learn, the importance of family. Lee’s latest film that he directed does not lack in

Did you know that Pixar started off as, “Graphics Group,” in 1979 as a computer division of LucasFilm, and in 1986 it was spun off as Pixar with funding from Steve Jobs, which became a majority stockholder? Walt Disney then bought Pixar for 7.8 billions dollars, and Steve Jobs became the largest single shareholder of Disney of all time. Pixar is famous for some of the most amazing animated films; 13of their films are on the list of 50 most grossing films of all time, with Frozen coming in at 1.27

this chapter I will discuss the change of representation of disabled characters in the Disney/Pixar film Finding Nemo and the sequel Finding Dory. I will discuss how the representation of the disabled in previously mentioned films from the previous chapter differ from that of newer films mentioned in this chapter. Pixar was created from a company named Lucasfilm and has then become recognised as the Pixar as we call it today in 1986 when Steve Jobs bought the Computer Graphics Division. During that

that our children watch. Being the ‘Alpha Male’ has always meant to have characteristics such as, Independence, Strong, Non-emotional, Competitive, and Aggressive. Though culture has assigned what masculinity betrays, huge film industries such as Pixar haven’t held back on showing the world that being a macho man isn’t always the best thing to be seen as. The ultramodern man is characterized to have feminine like qualities. Being able to show emotion and sensitivity was frown upon until the gateway

Stanton 's directing wowed not only the crowd but blew away all other Pixar movies. ' 'Finding Nemo ' ' doesn 't pretend that its undersea environment is a happier alternative to the world above. Under its comforting narrative arc, it presents a stark vision of the sea world as a treacherous jungle that, for all its beauty

Pixar Studios founded in 1979 is universally recognized as one being at the forefront of 3D computer animated films and has to date won 27 Academy awards for its contributions to the Film industry. The origins of the company can be linked to the frustrations of the founding members Steve Jobs, Bob Lasserter and Ed Catmull who whilst all exceptionally talented in their fields found the culture of the organisations they worked for limiting. Closely linked with Disney both studios have striven for the