Researching pixar

History Ownership and Structure
In 1979 Ed catmill has recruited George Lucas to join as head in Lucasfilms Computer Division  their job is to develop computer technology for the film industry. John Lasseter was invited to join the Lucasfilms in 1983 to work on Thomas Porters pool ball imagine as well as a short film. In 1984 the first short film was created by the animation studio it was called "The Adventures of Andr é and Wally B" it managed to do well and have flexible characters, hand painted textures and motion blur. 
In 1986 Steve Jobs brought the Computer Graphics Division from George Lucas to then make it into a independent company to now be known as "Pixar" at this time only 44 people were employed. This is also the year where "Luxo Jr" was created by John Lasseter. It was the first three dimensional computer animated film to be nominated for the Best Animated Short Film Oscar. They then went on creating a lot more short films that were really successful and as this went on new things were being created such as short films produced in stereoscopic 3D. Pixar then started to create commercials and won the CLIO award twice.
 In 1991 Pixar and Disney agreed to make a a computer generated animated movie together and this turned out to be Toy Story. Toy Story was the worlds first animated film and it was so big and successful, it was nominated for best original song, best original score and best original screenplay. 
After that Bugs Life, Toy Story 2, For The Birds, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo (and more) were all created by Pixar, some more successful than others however they were all very popular. Still now Pixar are still going strong and making films everyone enjoys. More recent films that have been produced are Up 2009, Cars 2006, Monsters University 2013, Wall-e 2008. Pixar have made 14 films all together. 



Types of Product made
As well as films Pixar also made short films and adverts, the adverts are to advertise them as well as other company's for example sky broadband had a advert made by Pixar which featured Toy Story characters in it. They also just made adverts for the company like trident and Listerine.

Shorts
 
Directed by John Lasseter
Released 17th August 1986
Running time 2:12

Directed by John Lasseter
Released 2nd 1988
Running time 5 minutes 

Directed by Enrico Casarosa 
Released 6th 2011
Running time 7 minutes 

Adverts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zv9vRz4QYM


paper man research

I have decided to reasearch paperman because it shows one of the different technologies that pixar uses to create there films and shorts ect. Paperman was made in 2012 as a black and white 3D hand drawn/computer animation romantic comedy short film produced by walt disney.
When making paperman they were trying to search for a way to merge 2d and 3d animation then a man called Kahrs discovered a animation system that gives artists an interactive way to craft the film. Paperman is described the inspiration for the films unique style of animation which was created with a new in-house technology called Meander. There is also another technique called "final line advection" which gives artists and animators a lot more influence and control over the final product.