Researching Pixar

Pixar's Iconic Lamp and Ball

Pixar-History

Pixar was originally a group of people working in a computer devision for lucasfilms as the graphic division, later on in 1986 Pixar split off from lucasfilms and created its new company which was being funded by appple INC  at the time. Steve jobs then become a majority shareholder of pixar. the three founders of Pixar where Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith and Steve Jobs.
then back in 2006 for 7.4 billion dollars this transaction made Steve Jobs Disney's larges shareholder. through out the years Pixar has won many awards, In 2009 Pixar opened up Pixar Canada in Vancouver which based its efforts to create short films about the other toy story and cars characters, how ever it was then closed in 2013 to focus all efforts back into Pixar. Pixar's ownership,
currently the president of Pixar is Ed Catmull, Ed was one of the originally 3 who had founder pixar.

Structure of Pixar
founders: Steve jobs
                Ed Catmull
                Alvy Ray Smith
President: Ed Catmull
CCO; John Lasseter
General Manager and Executive VP of Production: Jim Morris



Pixar-type of products made

in most of Pixar's films the genre's that are focus on  are Family, Comedy. this shows that as a company Pixar's target audience can really be anyone, since quit a lot of people grew up watching their movies when they came out in cinema, and to this day, that audience will still enjoy watching their movies. some of Pixar's most important and significant films are  the toy story series and Up. in the past pixar has been nominated for best animation feature, and has won several awards for this, some of those winners where Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3, Wall-E, and UP, with Up and Toy Story 3 being nominated for best picture. so far is has won 27 academy awards for its content that is has made. in its time most of Pixar's films have been a success except from cars 2, which was a commercial success, it was not a big as pixar's other moves. Toy Story 3 and Finding Nemo are two of Pixar's films in the top 50 Highly engrossing films and all of Pixar's films are in the top 50 engrossing animated films. Pixar has also done some of for sky with promotions with the advertising of sky fibre

over all Toy Story 3 has made the largest Boxoffice out of all of Pixar's films with it having a value of over 1 Billion.


Small look at one of Pixar's new filming Inside out it is set to be released June 19th 2015

 Personal favourite films for me that where done by Pixar would have to be Up and Monsters Inc. though i have no memory of seeing Monsters Inc in cinema i remember seeing Up when it first came out and loved it. for me with up its about following your dreams, and that how much you plan your life, things won't go as planned and that you have to make do with sometimes and just keep on trying, until you can succeed and have your dream in reach or to just give up and accept that it is just a dream and to stop chasing it and accept it as a dream and  live your life.



TECH
the animation style Pixar uses is CGI animation, one of the piece of tech they use it renderman it is a piece of software used for distributing rendering or complex and potentially thee-dimentional views.  Pixar uses Renderman Interface specification it was developed by pixar. it can take Three-dimensional scenes and turn them right into digital photo-realistic images,Renderman is an amazing piece of software that has been used by pixar for years and it always delivers great animations. Pixar announced that they are releasing Renderman out to the public