Pixar research

Pixar is a very successful company world wide that has created many well known animated feature and short films for over 25 years dating back to 1979. The main people who founded pixar was: Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith and Steve Jobs. The studios for pixar is located in Emeryville, California.

The very first animated short film was called 'The adventures of Andre and Wally B' in 1984 which was hand painted animation frame by frame and use of motion blur. In 1995 the very successful, well known animation was finished 'Toy Story' It was the very first, world wide computer animated feature film which was eventually released on the 22nd of November. Not only was it the first computer generated animation but it was also the highest grossing film in 1995. $192 million domestically was made in the USA alone and soon after $362 million world wide. It had many awards some being nominated for: the best original song used within a film, the best original score and the best original screenplay.

That year Pixar opened its initial public offering on November the 28th which was then rated the largest IPO of the year. Walt disney and Pixar then agreed to work together so that the companies could work together to create an overall, more successful outcome. They agreed to produce 5 movies over the next 10 years to come. They continued working together and produced highly successful films which are now rated some of the best animated/computed generated animation movies created of all time. The movies that were produced by the working teams were: A bugs life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), For the birds (2000), Monsters inc (2001), Finding nemo (2003), The incredibles (2004), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007) and many more.

The process that pixar goes through to create a successful movie
The whole process of creating an animated movie takes place with just one simple idea which becomes a different idea in everyones heads for a team to finally develop on so that everyone in the process is happy with an overall outcome. 'The process is a group pf people trying to get into the directors head and trying to bring his/her vision to life' (Randy Barett, character designer, set designer and matte painter) It all starts with a vision that gets put into pictures by an artist which tries to make the image as believable as possible. They do this by using clocks within the piece giving the target audience a believable idea to work with and relate with. Theres then a sculpting process where those visions from the drawings are formed into a 3D idea so that they can figure out how the characters move, how their expression is portrayed and how the architecture is made believable. This process is then joined by a director, a computer genius and costume designers who all work together to eventually create a good idea and outcome on how everything works together. This is then put into a computer and made into a moving animation which eventually turns into a finished animated movie.