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NeXT was not, however, the end of Steve Jobs. (Change Slide) In 1986, Jobs paid filmmaker George Lucas $10 million for a small firm called Pixar that specialized in computer animation. "Over the next six years Jobs poured another $40 million of his own money into the company. That film was Toy Story, a huge box office hit. The share price climbed dramatically, and Job’s 80 percent stock in Pixar suddenly was worth $1 billion. (Just a little better than the power balls don’t you think). In December of 1996, Apple announced that it was purchasing Next Software for over $400 million. (Change Slide) Jobs returned to Apple as a part-time consultant to CEO Gilbert Amelio. In September of 1997, Jobs was named temporary CEO of Apple while a replacement for Amelio was found. (Change Slide) Introduced in May 1998, it was Apple's first truly ground-breaking product since the original Macintosh of 1984. The design innovations for the iMac continued throughout 1998 and 1999 with

John Lasseter, now the famous Chief Creative Officer of Pixar and Disney, overcame failures and mistakes like everyone else to get to where he is today. He was born and grew up in Los Angeles, California. He went to California Institute of Arts. After graduating from school, he began working for Walt Disney Company. Lasseter was eventually fired but found work at Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Group, which also ended in a short time. After failing to keep his jobs, he sought for something new. This was when he joined the Pixar Animation Studios along with Edwin Catmull and Steve Jobs.

Animated films have come a long way over the years. Advancements in technology have provided film makers the ability to create anything they visualize in their head. Walt Disney films in particular, have partnered with Pixar Studios for a number of movies and have raised the bar in animations. Pixar Studios and Disney created the first completely computer generated animated feature film Toy Story in 1995. The visuals were entirely generated from computers, creating a dramatically realistic 3 dimensional world utilizing lighting, shading, and textures, that included real toys in supporting roles.

At first, the Pixar Image Computer did not seem to impact the history of technology at all. But once they figured out what it was capable of and created the two Three-Dimensional films, it impacted the history of technology enough to make Pixar an animation company that was well known all around the

In a world where technology is rapidly developing and evolving, it is sometimes hard to keep up with the changes that are made. When looking back on changes that are made it is particularly interesting to look at the development of animation over history. Today when one thinks about animation it is impossible not to think of Disney and their major motion pictures. The Shreck films, Finding Nemo, and Happy Feet, to name just some of the dozens of animated films Disney has produced, raked in million upon millions of dollars at the box office, and have been hit films with people in all age groups.

In 1974, Ed Catmull was hired to manage the Computer Graphic Lab (CGL) at the New York Institute of Technology. The CGL also hired a few other computer scientists who shared ambitions about creating the world’s first computer animated film. In 1979, Ed Catmull and his team moved to the computer division at Lucasfilm. In 1986, Steve Jobs bought the computer division from Lucasfilm, paid $5million to George Lucas for technology rights and founded an independent company, Pixar. Steve Jobs joined the company’s board of directors as chairman and Ed Catmull became the president of the company. In 1991, Pixar made a $26 million deal with Disney to produce three computer animated feature films. Pixar produced Toy

Founded: 1979 as Graphics Group, but 1986 as Pixar Founders: Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith Headquarter: Emeryville, California, U.S.A. Products: feature films, short-films, animations, commercials, softwares Key people: • Ed Catmull, President,Walt Disney Animation Studios & Pixar Animation Studios • John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer, Walt Disney Animation Studios & Pixar

Pixar Animation Studios as we know today, was started as in 1984 when John Lasseter, chief creative officer of both Pixar

Western animation is also the first to implement the famous computer generated three-dimensional animation in animation history. Most prominent of the animation would be Toy Story, produced by Pixar Studios. This technique would later be universal both in west and East. Malaysia who have embraced 3D animation few decades ago now received critical success in the local animation industry. Not to miss that animations such as BoboiBoy, and Upin and Ipin received international attention from neighbouring

In 2006, Disney CEO Robert Iger and Pixar CEO Steve Jobs consummated a deal for Pixar to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Disney. Iger wanted to reinvigorate animation at Disney, and as the top creative executive at Pixar, John Lasseter, was viewed a key figure in achieving this objective. Lasseter “ is regarded by Hollywood executives as the modern Walt [Disney] himself [with capabilities] that have made Pixar a sure thing in the high stakes animated world.” Former Disney Studios head, Peter Schneider, says Lasseter “is a kid who has never grown up and continues to show the wonder and joy that you need in this business.” Current Disney Studio chief, Dick Cook, says that Lasseter is like the famous professional basketball player, Michael Jordan. “He makes all the players around him better.”

Pixar Animation Studios was founded in 1979, initially specializing in producing state of the art computer hardware (Carlson, 2003). In 1990, due to poor product sales the company diversified from its core business and began producing computer animated commercials for outside companies. Success came for Pixar after the production of its first computer animated film ‘Toy story’ in 1995 (Hutton and Baute, 2007). Since then, Pixar has made many innovative animated feature films, with well known ones including - A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille and WALL-E, six of which are in the top grossing animated

Graphics Group, part of the Lucasfilm computer division in 1979, is original name of Pixar. Since Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs bought it at 10 million dollars and named Pixar Painting studios in 1986, Pixar becomes a real corporation. In the same year, as its first computer-animated short film, luxo Jr. , which is also the source of its mascot, is nominated for Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Moreover, almost every film it creates wins satisfying awards in the following years. The year of 1991 is the start point of cooperating with Walt Disney. Until 2006, the relationship between Pixar and Walt Disney has changed from cooperation to merger.(Wikipedia)

The age of technology and computer development, in general, began to grow its influence on the film industry, but was catapulted by “Toy Story”. Pixar started out as a division of Lucasfilms, eventually becoming a hardware company, led by Ed Catmull, which utilized film shorts in order to show off the abilities of the hardware. The idea of “Toy Story” began in 1991 as a

Another creative and profitable partnership with Pixar’s Steve Jobs was eventually damaged because of Eisner’s “abrasive style and tendency toward micromanagement” (Ivancevich, Konopaske & Matteson, 2011, p. 337). Disney had joined forces with Pixar to finance and distribute films produced with new digital technology. Eisner claimed that “Disney didn 't really need Pixar anymore, since the Mouse already legally had the right to make sequels to Toy Story and all of the other films that Pixar had produced” (Hill, 2012). Also, Eisner’s degrading comments about Apple Computer during the testimony he

According the to the company website, its origins go back as far as the 1970’s. The company started as a division of LucasFilm, when Ed Catmull was hired by George Lucas to develop computer software for the film industry. Catmull had been in the business for many years as one of the founders of Computer Graphic Lab with Alvy Ray Smith. These men are often