Pixar Animation Studios

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Introduction 0Pixar Animation Studios is a famous American computer

animation company, known worldwide for its computer-generated animated feature movies (Vardanega, 2013).

0The company initially began its existence in the year of 1979 as Graphics Group being the part of Lucasfilm company.

0Steve Jobs purchased the Computer Graphics Division from Lucas in 1986 and created an independent company named “Pixar” (Pixar, 2017).

(Vardanega, 2013)

Introduction

0The next important event dated to 1991, when another famous animation company Disney partnered with Pixar to create long feature movie called “Toy Story” (Wilson, 2014).

0From the 5th of May 2006 Pixar Animation Studios functions as a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.

0Pixar is based in Emeryville, California, being the company, which specialises in releasing animated feature and short films and offers software for visual effects called RenderMan. (Bloomberg, 2017).

The First and the Last Movies

“The Adventures of André and Wally B”

(FilmMunch, 2015)

“Finding Dory”

(The Movie DB, 2016)

Animation Revolution0The Pixar Animation Studio along with Walt Disney Company are

the companies to be blamed for an Animation Revolution in 1995 after the premiere of the common designed movie “Toy Story”.

0 It was the first fully computer animated long-story feature film, which success was hard to believe and rather quick and instant.

0During only the first week of realising it gathered $300 million in box-offices around the globe (Planes, A, The Motley Fool, Aol.com, 2013).

(Pixar, 2017)

Success of Pixar Movies0By the 25th anniversary of the company Pixar has released 12

feature films, gathering 40 Oscar nominations and has earned more than $7 billion in worldwide grosses (Young, 2011).

0The interesting fact about the studio is the tendency of making 100% profit of every movie, as well as nearly any negative criticism from wide audience all around the world (Wilson, 2014).

(Pixar, 2017)

In Conclusion 0The impressing ability to make every released film to become

unique and memorable is the key element of Pixar`s success.0 The collaboration with Walt Disney Company as well inputs a lot

to the company`s global recognition and flourishing tendency. 0According to the expectations, the future of both companies within

partnership can be regarded as profitable and successful.

0 (Pixar, 2017)

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0 FilmMunch, 2015. The Adventures of Andre and Wally B, Technically Pixar’s First Ever, Short Film. [Online] [Accessed 2015].

0 Naoreen, N., 2017. PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS 2017: FULL LIST OF WINNERS. [Online] Available at: http://blog.peopleschoice.com/2017/01/18/peoples-choice-awards-2017-winners/[Accessed 2017].

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0 Vardanega, J., 2013. Pixar Animation Studios. [Online] Available at: http://pixar-animation.weebly.com/[Accessed 2013].

0 Wilson, T., 2014. Pixar Animation Studio: A Brief History. [Online] Available at: http://animation-school.net/pixar-animation-studio-brief-history/[Accessed 2014].

0 Young, J., 2011. Pixar's 25th anniversary: How the studio changed animation. Entertainment, 17 August.

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