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Ed Catmull is president of both Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios.
"Toy Story" was produced by the Pixar Animation Studio and Disney was the distributor of the film .
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Pixar Animation Studios is mostly known for producing feature length animation films for children and young adults .
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Pixar Animation Studios, or simply Pixar is a computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the computer division of Lucasfilm before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion, a transaction which made Jobs Disney's largest shareholder.
Disney Pixar uses a mixture a Autodesk Maya and Pixar Renderman for their work. Maya for the modeling and animation, Renderman for the rendering of the animation out. These pieces of software are the industry standard, also, for computer aided special effects.
Yes, Pixar competes with Dreamworks Animation in the field of computer animation and family entertainment. The major animation studios have being competing against each other since 1998 with Pixar's A Bug's Life and Dreamwork's Antz being released during the same time.
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