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Pixar Animation Studios
Subsidiary of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group (Disney)
Industry CGI animation
Founded February 3, 1986
Headquarters Emeryville, California, United States
Key people
 Ed Catmull, President, Disney and Pixar Animation Studios
John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer, Disney and Pixar Animation Studios
Products RenderMan, Marionette
Parent The Walt Disney Company
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A Pixar Computer at the Computer History Museum with the 1986–95 logo on it.
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John Lasseter appears with characters from Up at the 2009 Venice Film Festival.
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The Steve Jobs Building at Pixar's campus in Emeryville.

Pixar Animation Studios (or simply Pixar) is an American animation studio. It is known for its advanced CGI productions. It has been a partner of Disney for many years. In 2006, Disney bought the company.

Pixar started as a division of George Lucas' Lucasfilm in early 1979. In 1986, Steve Jobs bought it for $10 million. He worked as a chairman and CEO until 2011.

Movies

Main page: List of Pixar movies
  1. Toy Story (1995)
  2. A Bug's Life (1998)
  3. Toy Story 2 (1999)
  4. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
  5. Finding Nemo (2003)
  6. The Incredibles (2004)
  7. Cars (2006)
  8. Ratatouille (2007)
  9. WALL-E (2008)
  10. Up (2009)
  11. Toy Story 3 (2010)
  12. Cars 2 (2011)
  13. Brave (2012)
  14. Monsters University (2013)
  15. Inside Out (2015)
  16. The Good Dinosaur (2015)
  17. Finding Dory (2016)
  18. Cars 3 (2017)
  19. Coco (2017)
  20. Incredibles 2 (2018)
  21. Toy Story 4 (2019)

Short movies

  • Adventures of André & Wally B. (Lucasfilm)
  • Luxo Jr.
  • Red's Dream
  • Tin Toy
  • Knick-Knack
  • Geri's Game
  • For the Birds
  • Mike's New Car
  • Boundin'
  • Jack-Jack Attack
  • One Man Band
  • Lifted
  • Mater and the Ghostlight
  • Your Friend the Rat
  • Presto
  • Resuce Squad Mater
  • El Materdor
  • BURN-E
  • Tokyo Mater
  • Partly Cloudy
  • Dug's Special Mission
  • George & A.J.
  • Day & Night
  • La Luna
  • Hawaiian Vacation
  • Small Fry
  • Partysaurus Rex
  • The Legend of Mor'du
  • The Blue Umbrella
  • Party Central
  • Lava
  • Sanjay's Super Team
  • Riley's First Date?
  • Piper
  • Lou
  • Bao

Images for kids

  • Luxo Jr in Pixar Fest Hong Kong 2021

    A Luxo Jr. figure display in Hong Kong

  • Pixar, Awards, Emeryville, 2010

    The atrium of the Pixar campus

See also

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