Pixar
Sign in to savePixar (), doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of the Disney Entertainment segment of the Walt Disney Company.
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Pixar is an American animation studio based in California that specializes in creating computer-animated movies that achieve significant commercial success. As a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, Pixar is part of the larger Walt Disney Company's entertainment operations.
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Key facts
- Company.name
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Company.logo
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- Company.image
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- Logo used since 1995
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- Headquarters in Emeryville, California
- Company.traded_as
- (1995–2006)
- Company.type
- Subsidiary
- Company.industry
- Animation
- Company.predecessor
- The Graphics Group of Lucasfilm Computer Division (1979–1986)
- Company.founded
- in Richmond, California
- Company.hq_location
- 1200 Park Avenue
- Company.hq_location_city
- Emeryville, California
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22 sectionsContents
- History
- Early history
- Independent company (1986–1999)
- Collaboration with Disney (1999–2006)
- Walt Disney Studios subsidiary (2006–present)
- Expansion and John Lasseter's exit (2010–2018)
- Sequels and financial success (2018–2019)
- COVID-19 pandemic, Disney+ releases, and some financial struggles (2020–present)
- Campus
- Filmography
- Traditions
- Sequels and prequels
- Adaptation to television
- 2D animation and live-action
- Upcoming films
- Franchises
- Highest-grossing films
- Co-op Program
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Pixar (), doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of the Disney Entertainment segment of the Walt Disney Company.
The studio started in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division. It was known as the Graphics Group before its spin-off as a corporation in 1986, with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. The studio's mascot is Luxo Jr., a desk lamp from the studio's 1986 short film of the same name. Disney announced its acquisition of Pixar in January 2006, and completed it in May 2006. Pixar is best known for its feature films, technologically powered by its RenderMan software. RenderMan began as Pixar's implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan Interface Specification (RISpec) image-rendering API, which came out in 1988; support for RISpec was dropped in 2016. RenderMan became fully path-traced and physically based (PBR).
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