Pixar research

In the 1970s Alexander Schare was looking for someone to create a animated film from a sound recording of tubby tuba. He found Ed Catmull a computer scientist with a PH.D from the university of Utah.

Catmull and a team of several others set up house of Schare's expenses at NYIT long island campus to work on Computer graphics. Tubby the tuba was never made although the team was successful at creating video artwork. 

In 1979 George Lucas of LucasArts soon to be producing the Star Wars trilogy asked Catmull's team to move to the west coast as a part of Lucas Arts, they agreed.

The Team assembled graphic programs and equipment for LucasFilms called pixar.  Pixar could construct high resolution, three dimensional coloured  image of anything. In 1985 the first Pixar graphic generating computer was on sale for $105,000.

In 1986 jobs approached Lucas and paid $10 million for san-raphael based pixar and created a independent company which they focuses on their dreams of making animation and not creating technical graphics to sell.
In 2006 Disney copped Pixar for $7.6 billion.
Disney produced many movies using PIXAR a few being;

Directed by John lasseter, Toy story 1 was the first feature length computer generated film and the first film produced as before Pixar would make short animated films to promote their computers which would produce the CGI animations for other companies.

Monsters, INC. directed by Pete doctor, was produced by PIXAR and released by disney. Originally started work on in 1996 by doctor and written by Pete doctor, Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon and Ralph Eggleston.
Monsters, INC. produced over $562 Million worldwide.

Cars, 2006. Like Toy story 1 was directed and co-written John lesseter and written by joe ranft, john lesseter and jorgen klubien. Cars won the global globe best animated feature. Cars also broke disneys records for merchandise sales for a disney film. Merchandise included scale models of the cars.





In 1996 John lesseter received a special achievement oscar from the academy of motion picture arts for his work and Ed cat mull, Alvy ray smith, thomas porter and tom drift received the sciences scientific and engineering academy awards for their inventions in digital image compositing.

 The pixar studios;
The workplace for the Pixar workers is a great place, chosen by CEO Steve jobs to make each employee constantly be talking together and share ideas to create even better ones, and they keep the employees happy. To produce a movie they have to go through several steps, first they story board, for this they use their Story room which they put all these cards of each frame and they decide whether each frame works well and if they don't they go back to the drawing board to change that frame, After choosing that the sequence is perfected they then will record the sound of each character before starting any Animation and when they get the Sound recording they can use that as almost like a template for the computer generated animation.