Pixar
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Subsidiary of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group (Disney) | |
Industry | CGI animation |
Founded | February 3, 1986 |
Headquarters | Emeryville, California, United States |
Key people | Ed Catmull, President, Disney and Pixar Animation Studios John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer, Disney and Pixar Animation Studios |
Products | RenderMan, Marionette Formerly Toy Story 1995-2020 |
Parent | The Walt Disney Company |
Website | Pixar.com |
Pixar Animation Studios (or simply Pixar) is an American animation studio. It is known for its advanced CGI productions. It has been a partner of Disney for many years. In 2006, Disney bought the company.
Pixar started as a division of George Lucas' Lucasfilm in early 1979. In 1986, Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs bought it for $10 million. He worked as a chairman and CEO until 2011.
The company has made a total of 28 movies and short films based on the characters, starting with Toy Story which was released on November 22, 1995, Toy Story 2 was premiered in 1999 and Toy Story 3 was made in 2010. The fourth film of the franchise is Toy Story 4 which released in 2019. The Toy Story franchise has globally become the highest-grossing animated films of all time and has also released several short films and several television series.
Movies[change | change source]
- Toy Story (1995)
- A Bug's Life (1998)
- Toy Story 2 (1999)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- The Incredibles (2004)
- Cars (2006)
- Ratatouille (2007)
- WALL-E (2008)
- Up (2009)
- Toy Story 3 (2010)
- Cars 2 (2011)
- Brave (2012)
- Monsters University (2013)
- Inside Out (2015)
- The Good Dinosaur (2015)
- Finding Dory (2016)
- Cars 3 (2017)
- Coco (2017)
- Incredibles 2 (2018)
- Toy Story 4 (2019)
- Onward (2020)
- Soul (2020)
- Luca (2021)
36 Short movies[change | change source]
- 0. A Computer Animated Hand
- 1. Adventures of André & Wally B. (Lucasfilm)
- 2. Luxo Jr.
- 3. Red's Dream
- 4. Tin Toy
- 5. Knick-Knack
- 6. Geri's Game
- 7. For the Birds
- 8. Mike's New Car
- 9. Boundin'
- 10. Jack-Jack Attack
- 11. One Man Band
- 12. Lifted
- 13. Mater and the Ghostlight
- 14. Your Friend the Rat
- 15. Presto
- 16. Resuce Squad Mater
- 17. El Materdor
- 18. BURN-E
- 19. Tokyo Mater
- 20. Partly Cloudy
- 21. Dug's Special Mission
- 22. George & A.J.
- 23. Day & Night
- 24. La Luna
- 25. Hawaiian Vacation
- 26. Small Fry
- 27. Partysaurus Rex
- 28. The Legend of Mor'du
- 29. The Blue Umbrella
- 30. Party Central
- 31. Lava
- 32. Sanjay's Super Team
- 33. Riley's First Date?
- 34. Piper
- 35. Lou
- 36. Bao