The 2020 Turing Prize winners are Pixar's Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan, who won the $1 million computer industry award for their groundbreaking achievements.
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Walt Disney Animation almost shut down after acquiring Pixar Animation. It was Steve Jobs who floated the idea, but thankfully, it didn't happen.
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Ed Catmull retires from his position at Pixar, which he co-founded in 1986 with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter, and helped lead for nearly 40 years.
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Pixar works on their films for years; most releases are developed for a good five years. Almost every film they've developed has had problems at one point of another. Some, like Ratatouille and Toy Story, were completely reworked when Pixar realized the story wasn't working. The film newt was announced in 2008 at a Disney presentation, and…
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Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull recently published a book called Creativity Inc., bout how creativity and business can work hand in hand. The book is filled with stories from Catmull's journey at Pixar, some details of which have never been told publicly before. One of the stories is about how a business deal came within seven days…
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From 2001 to 2009, Pixar released original films almost every year. And they were all great. Then they did Toy Story 3, followed by Cars 2 and with this year's Monsters University, some fans have began to complain the company is relying too heavily on older material. Others argued that out of 14 films, there…
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Heading home for the holidays can give us treasured time with our loved ones, but sometimes it can be a pretty difficult experience.
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Over the years, we've learned a lot about how Pixar develops and produces their feature animated films, but we've learned very little about how the beloved short films get created. So I decided it was time we find out. I shot a message over to Enrico Casarosa, the director of Pixar's next short film La…
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It's hard to imagine a day when Pixar was in hard financial times, but the company took many years to earn a profit. In the 1985, the Computer Division of Lucasfilm (which later became Pixar) was under financial pressure. Pixar veteran Craig Good recently recalled a story of how Pixar bosses Ed Catmull and Alvy…
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The International Animated Film Society ASIFA-Hollywood has announced the nominees for the 38th Annual Annie Awards, and the DreamWorks feature How to Train Your Dragon leads the pack with more than ten nods. But there's a caveat; that and the full list of nominations after the break. This will be the first Annie Awards after…
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Pixar co-founder and president, Ed Catmull will receive an Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences -- the Gordon E. Sawyer Award. Catmull will receive his Oscar statuette at the Scientific and Technical Awards banquet, to be held on February 7th 2009. Catmull has contributed to many important developments in computer graphics…
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When it was announced that Brad Bird would be directing a live action adaptation of 1906, a co-production of Pixar and Warner Bros, many assumed that the Emeryville animation studio would be providing the visual effects. Well now Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull told attendees of the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference that Pixar will…
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Good news and bad news. The Good News: Disney has announced that Pixar will release Toy Story 3 in 2009. And the Oscar nominated screenwriter behind Little Miss Sunshine is hard at work on the story. The Bad News: Toy Story and Pixar mastermind and all-around animation god John Lasseter won't be directing. Lasseter and…
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