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)
Short movies[change | change source]
- A Computer Animated Hand
- Adventures of André & Wally B. (Lucasfilm)
- Luxo Jr.
- Red's Dream
- Tin Toy
- Knick-Knack
- Geri's Game
- For the Birds
- Mike's New Car
- Boundin'
- Jack-Jack Attack
- One Man Band
- Lifted
- Mater and the Ghostlight
- Your Friend the Rat
- Presto
- Resuce Squad Mater
- El Materdor
- BURN-E
- Tokyo Mater
- Partly Cloudy
- Dug's Special Mission
- George & A.J.
- Day & Night
- La Luna
- Hawaiian Vacation
- Small Fry
- Partysaurus Rex
- The Legend of Mor'du
- The Blue Umbrella
- Party Central
- Lava
- Sanjay's Super Team
- Riley's First Date?
- Piper
- Lou
- Bao
