2 months ago 16th Jul 10:54
Dreamworks may have released their animation effort for the summer in the form of Kung Fu Panda but this weeks sees giants Pixar release Wall-E.
Wall-E is just the latest in a long line of Pixar movies that have received critical acclaim as well as doing well at the box office making them the dominating studio in the animation film genre.
A CGI animation studio their cutting edge methods have brought to life some of cinemas most memorable characters as well as producing some of the most technically accomplished movies revitalising the animation picture.
Founded in 1979 Pixar was a part of Lucasfilm before it was bought by Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple in 1986.
After the take over Pixar was a high end computer company whose core product was the Pixar Image Computer, a graphics designing computer.
Despite Disney being one of the leading buyers for the product John Lasseter was brought into the company to boost the sales of the system.
With Lasseter on board the animation department began producing computer-animated adverts and in 1991 this lead to a $26 million deal with Disney to produce three features using computer-animation.
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