PIXAR DRAWINGS
Pixar cartoons have created a school and have a legion of followers around the world. Pixar's drawings are the result of the conjunction of creativity, ingenuity and technology. Nothing more and nothing less.
PIXAR STORY
The history of Pixar is exciting, it is full of changes, crossings of situations and people and unexpected turns. All this makes the legend of Pixar's drawings gigantic and grows more and more. Until where? To infinity and beyond! Please read carefully below.
Pixar's origins date back to 1974, when Alexander Schure, founder of the New York Institute of Technology and owner of an animation studio, founded the "Computer Graphics Lab" to produce the first computer-generated animated film.
The lab experimented with different computer graphics techniques and even made an animated movie called "The Works," but it ran into financial trouble and six of its employees, including Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith, went to work with George Lucas (Yes, the of Star Wars), in the company that Lucas had founded in 1979, "The Graphics Group". This company was in charge, within the "Lucasfilm" studio, of the IT and technology part. Catmull and Smith worked on the creation of REYES (Renders Everything You Ever Saw), a rendering algorithm, the forerunner of "RenderMan". The Graphics Group was also involved in creating special effects technologies, such as particle generation and other processes and tools for creating computer animations and special effects.
This experimental group began to collaborate with "Industrial Light & Magic" another Lucas company, in 1982, in the production of special effects for various films. In 1984 they premiered at the SIGGRAPH event, the animation "The Adventures of André and Wally B." directed by John Lasseter.
But the team and the company were very expensive to maintain and economic problems appeared again, common to many entrepreneurs and projects, and George Lucas decided to sell "The Graphics Group" division. General Motors was interested to use the technology in car design and Philips for tomography rendering, but finally, the company was acquired by "Steve Jobs", yes, the founder of Apple who had just left the apple company , for 5 million dollars.
Steve Jobs decided to create a new company made up of the 40 employees of The Graphics Group, invested an additional 5 million dollars and appointed Ed Catmull and Smith as president and vice president, respectively, of this new company to be called Pixar. The story of Pixar had begun and will undoubtedly be as exciting as the one that originated it.
Pixar changed the history of animated film
The arrival of Pixar Animation Studios meant a true revolution, a before and after in the history of cinema. Toy Story became, in 1995, the first film made entirely by computer. From that moment on, thanks to the enormous talent, creativity and state-of-the-art technology that had been brought together at Pixar, nothing was the same in the animated film industry.