<![CDATA[The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company]]>

false <![CDATA[The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company]]> 2632830 3 The roller-coaster rags-to-riches story behind the phenomenal success of Pixar Animation Studios: the first in-depth look at the company that forever changed the film industry and the “fraternity of geeks” who shaped it. The Pixar Touch is a story of technical innovation that revolutionized animation, transforming hand-drawn cel animation to computer-generated 3-D graphics. It’s a triumphant business story of a company that began with a dream, remained true to the ideals of its founders—antibureaucratic and artist driven—and ended up a multibillion-dollar success. We meet Pixar’s technical genius and founding CEO, Ed Catmull, who dreamed of becoming an animator, inspired by Disney’s Peter Pan and Pinocchio, realized he would never be good enough, and instead enrolled in the then new field of computer science at the University of Utah. It was Catmull who founded the computer graphics lab at the New York Institute of Technology and who wound up at Lucasfilm during the first Star Wars trilogy, running the computer graphics department, and found a patron in Steve Jobs, just ousted from Apple Computer, who bought Pixar for five million dollars. Catmull went on to win four Academy Awards for his technical feats and helped to create some of the key computer-generated imagery software that animators rely on today. Price also writes about John Lasseter, who catapulted himself from unemployed animator to one of the most powerful figures in American filmmaking; animation was the only thing he ever wanted to do (he was inspired by Disney’s The Sword in the Stone), and Price’s book shows how Lasseter transformed computer animation from a novelty into an art form. The author writes as well about Steve Jobs, as volatile a figure as a Shakespearean monarch . . . Based on interviews with dozens of insiders, The Pixar Touch examines the early wildcat years when computer animation was thought of as the lunatic fringe of the medium. We see the studio at work today; how its writers, directors, and animators make their astonishing, and astonishingly popular, films. The book also delves into Pixar’s corporate feuds: between Lasseter and his former champion, Jeffrey Katzenberg (A Bug’s Life vs. Antz), and between Jobs and Michael Eisner. And finally it explores Pixar’s complex relationship with the Walt Disney Company as it transformed itself from a Disney satellite into the $7.4 billion jewel in the Disney crown. 2657537 13 5 2008 The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company total:177|5:41|4:83|3:44|2:8|1:1| 177 686 329 47 5 1 false false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 21:45:34 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 27 21:46:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 14:31:17 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 14:33:02 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 05:07:58 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 22:36:01 -0700 2009 The Pixar Touch tells the story of the establishment of Pixar as the leading 3D computer animation company. Sure enough, Price gives us a vivid account of the grinding and growth of what essentially is the success of a garage company (albeit an academic garage). We are told how Pixar started as an i...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 09:24:49 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 09:19:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 14:33:44 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 13:46:18 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 06:35:29 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 04 03:47:02 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 15:57:20 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 10:50:51 -0700 2009
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I basically picked this one up because I believe that Pixar can do no wrong. How many large, ultra-profitable production studios are out there that consistently churn out beautiful stories of amazing depth and, to the joy of hollywood bigwigs, insane marke...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 20:25:59 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 18:31:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 16 20:51:21 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 20:57:52 -0700 2009 really went on with The Brady Bunch. The Pixar Touch is to Pixar what Way Out There in the Blue is to The Reagan Admin...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 19 20:05:12 -0700 2008 Mon May 19 20:17:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 14 00:44:50 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 15 22:19:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 23:43:43 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 22:23:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 09:13:15 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 09:13:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jul 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 16:05:26 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 16:07:35 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 08 08:24:08 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 06 13:49:17 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 08:24:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 11:15:24 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 11:16:45 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Feb 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 18:28:38 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 18:30:09 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Jul 25 14:25:56 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 14:29:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2632830