Research into Pixar.

Pixar.

In 1995, Pixar Animation Studios started to make a big impact on the film making business with their first release, Disney·Pixar's Toy Story. Pixar was founded in 1986 but Toy Story was their biggest and best (most popular) piece of work and was loved by all. Toy Story reflected years of expert animating and enthusiastic work done by some of the leading scientists and creative team members. The making of Toy Story was heavily influenced by President Ed Catmull and Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter. The first production by Pixar went on to get the highest profit of a film in that year, with $362 million worldwide. The director of Toy Story, was awarded with a Special Achievement Academy Award for his exceptional work on Toy Story which was the first full length animation.

Since Pixar was founded the high firing animation company has also created and produced a number of successful box office films which include: A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009) and just now in 2010 the long awaited Toy Story 3. The afore mentioned films came together to earn a combined gross of $6 billion at the worldwide box office. Most of Pixar's success came from some of these films which 35 Academy Award nominations, 9 Oscars, 6 Golden Globes.


Within Pixar's creative team they have given audiences of all ages some of the most memorable characters ever to grace cinema-screens and home television. Some members of the Pixar team that made Toy Story in 1995 have gone on to great things that have massively impacted the world we know today. One of these is Steve Jobs who is now the CEO of multi billionaire company Apple who rivaled Bill Gates' company Microsoft with their computers and other technology.  Jobs no owns 5.426 million shares of Apple.


Pixar also collaborated with some huge household names such as: Disney who worked on Toy Story, The Incredible, Up and many more. They also are in progress shooting the brand new film and sequel to Cars 2 which is set to hit screens soon.

Short film by Pixar

Disney announced on January 24, 2006 that it had agreed to buy Pixar for approximately $7.4 billion in an all stock deal, which pushed aside majority share-holder Steve Jobs, but also gave him the individual majority share-holder and also granted him a seat and a place in their board of directors, this simply added to the massive amount of shares and wealth of Steve Jobs.

Up (2009)

WALL-E (2008)

We think that our animation would be perfect for Pixar to distribute as it strongly fits in with there other productions such as Toy Story and Monsters inc. We think this because of the target age group for the productions and the over-all style of the animation. although ours and Pixar's films are similar in the genre and style we also realise that our productions budget is a far cry from the millions of dollars that were pumped into the making of their films. Our film would also massively benefit from the input that Pixar would be able provide as their expertise, equipment and the budget that would be available.
our film also has some major differences to Pixar's films mainly to do with budget reasons, like the animation that was used.