Steve Jobs founded Pixar with animation technology he purchased from George Lucas.
Pixar was started in California at Lucasfilm.
There are two people who could take credit for founding Pixar. Steve Jobs and George Lucas.Pixar originally started out as the Computer Division of Lucasfilm Ltd. (owned by George Lucas). They made one computer animated short film that everyone liked, except George Lucas.Steve Jobs bought the Computer Division of Lucasfilm in the 1980s. He made them an independent company and they started to sell a computer called the Pixar Image Computer.For more about Pixar, I highly recommend The Pixar Touch by David A. Price.
The Walt Disney Company. On January 24, 2006, Pixar entered into an agreement with The Walt Disney Company to merge the two companies. The deal was approved by shareholders of both companies and the merger became effective on May 5, 2006. Pixar is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
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.
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Steve Jobs founded Pixar with animation technology he purchased from George Lucas.
Pixar was started in California at Lucasfilm.
There are two people who could take credit for founding Pixar. Steve Jobs and George Lucas.Pixar originally started out as the Computer Division of Lucasfilm Ltd. (owned by George Lucas). They made one computer animated short film that everyone liked, except George Lucas.Steve Jobs bought the Computer Division of Lucasfilm in the 1980s. He made them an independent company and they started to sell a computer called the Pixar Image Computer.For more about Pixar, I highly recommend The Pixar Touch by David A. Price.
Steve Jobs
The Walt Disney Company. On January 24, 2006, Pixar entered into an agreement with The Walt Disney Company to merge the two companies. The deal was approved by shareholders of both companies and the merger became effective on May 5, 2006. Pixar is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company.
Steve Jobs: Co-founded Apple, Co-founded PIXAR, on the Disney Board of Directors Steve Wozniak: Co-founded Apple, Formed the US Festivals, Founded CL 9
Well, I'm not 100% sure but according to Wikipedia, "Pixar was founded as the Graphics Group, one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm." Lucasfilm is located in the San Francisco, CA area so it probably started there.Now, the Pixar studios are based in Emeryville, California.Here is the Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar
Steve Jobs founded NeXT computers in 1985 after his forced resignation from Apple. In 1986 Jobs bought The Graphics Group (later renamed Pixar) from Lucasfilm. In 1996, Apple announced that it would buy NeXT for $429 million and with the purchase Jobs returned to Apple.
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.
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