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Meet the Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible
IN 2007 A new documentary called The Pixar Story screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival. It covered the wild antics of the studio’s founders as they crafted a new kind of movie—a fully computer-animated picture bursting with riotous colors and textures, ultra-vivid characters, and plotlines subversively seeded with mind-expanding wisdom. During a panel discussion afterward, the interviewer asked a provocative question.
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'My mind's eye is blind' - ex-Pixar chief
The former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios says he has a "blind mind's eye". Most people can close their eyes and conjure up images inside their head such as counting sheep or imagining the face of a loved one. But Ed Catmull, 74, has the condition aphantasia, in which people cannot visualise mental images at all. And in a surprising survey of his former employees, so do some of the world's best animators.
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Disney Is Spending More on Theme Parks Than It Did on Pixar, Marvel and Lucasfilm Combined
There is nothing small about Walt Disney World. It is made up of four separate theme parks in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., near Orlando, with combined annual attendance of 56 million. The resort sprawls across 25,000 acres, an area nearly twice the size of Manhattan. A steel beam needed to build an “Avatar” attraction last year was so massive that Disney had to borrow crawler-transporters from NASA.
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From ‘Toy Story’ to ‘Incredibles 2’: Every Pixar Character Voiced by John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger is best known for his onscreen performance of know-it-all postal worker Cliff Clavin on NBC sitcom Cheers, but the actor has the sole distinction of being the only person to appear in every Pixar Animation Studios movie — all 20 of them.
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Pixar Co-Founder to Leave Disney After ‘Missteps’
John Lasseter, the animation titan who has been on leave from the Walt Disney Company following complaints about unwanted workplace hugging, will not return to the conglomerate. Disney said on Friday that Mr. Lasseter — the creative force behind the billion-dollar “Toy Story,” “Cars” and “Frozen” franchises — would take on a consulting role at the company until the end of the year and then leave permanently. He will not have an office in the interim.
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‘Kingdom Hearts 3’ Delivers Lush Graphics, Pixar Quality
“Kingdom Hearts III” is a meaningful evolution of a nearly 16-year-old franchise that manages to not only absorb the best bits of the 15 games that came before it, but also enrich them with refined graphics and the addition of Pixar to the Disney-Square-Enix mash-up.
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Toy Story Shocker: Andy's Dad's Backstory Revealed?
Mind. Blown.
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How Pixar Lost Its Way
A well-regarded hollywood insider recently suggested that sequels can represent “a sort of creative bankruptcy.” He was discussing Pixar, the legendary animation studio, and its avowed distaste for cheap spin-offs. More pointedly, he argued that if Pixar were only to make sequels, it would “wither and die.” Now, all kinds of industry experts say all kinds of things. But it is surely relevant that these observations were made by Ed Catmull, the president of Pixar, in his best-selling 2014 business-leadership book.
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How Pixar hatched Piper: the cutting-edge tech behind their cutest short yet
“The common way a film starts is that you pitch something that hatches into a full story. This was a bit different,” says Alan Barillaro, director of Pixar’s latest short film, Piper. It’s another small but perfectly formed adventure from the studio, one that accompanies Andrew Stanton’s feature sequel Finding Dory.
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You've Found the Latest 'Finding Dory' Trailer
With the movie premiere of everyone's favorite forgetful fish just around the corner, the latest official "Finding Dory" trailer is here!
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The dark side of Toy Story
As Pixar’s classic animation turns 20, Nicholas Barber finds out what made the tale of Woody and Buzz Lightyear so special.
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To infinity: How Pixar brought computers to the movies
Ed Catmull's office could be a window into the brain of Pixar. Catmull, president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, sits at a round wooden table at Pixar's whimsical headquarters in Emeryville, California. To his right, the walls are filled with items that inspire creativity. There's a plaster mold of his left hand: the star of the first computer-animated short he made in 1972 as a graduate student at the University of Utah.
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EXCLUSIVE: 'Finding Dory' Trailer
Everyone's favorite forgetful fish is back! Check out this exclusive first look at the much-anticipated film.
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Pixar Library of 128 seamless textures
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Pixar's 'The Good Dinosaur' gets its first full-length trailer
Following the release of Monsters University, many moviegoers became worried that Pixar might have finally lost its magic touch.
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The Pixar Theory of Labor
A lot of Pixar films come packaged with a quasi-humanist narrative hook that enables the public digestion of their work. Viewers nodded thoughtfully over WALL-E’s depiction of a future earth choked by the refuse of big-box retail, and of a human race infantilized and rendered obese by mindless consumption, while Brave was the first Pixar film to feature a female protagonist—a simple gesture, the long-overdueness of...
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The Pixar Theory of Labor
To live is to work is to live.
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The Curse of the Pixar Universe
For all the cleverness of “Inside Out,” I was jolted from the start by its deformation of children and of mental life. By Richard Brody.
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Inside Pixar's 'Inside Out' and that Pesky Plot Hole with Director Pete Docter
Interview with Inside Out director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera discussing the making of the film and a pesky little plot hole.
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The Incredibles 2 - Brad Bird on the Challenges of the Sequel
Incredibles director Brad Bird talks about creating a sequel in a world full of superhero movies.
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