Pixar Animation Studios

The desk lamp that serves as the mascot for Pixar Animation Studios is named Luxo Jr. It is a small, animated desk lamp that first appeared in the short film "Luxo Jr." released in 1986. The character is known for its playful and curious personality, and it has become an iconic symbol of the studio, often seen in the Pixar logo. Luxo Jr. represents the creativity and innovation that define Pixar's animated films.

Pixar Animation Studios primarily uses high-performance workstations equipped with powerful CPUs and GPUs for rendering and animation tasks. These custom-built machines often run on a variant of Linux, optimized for their proprietary software, such as RenderMan and Presto, which are crucial for creating their iconic films. Additionally, Pixar utilizes a robust Render Farm, consisting of thousands of interconnected computers, to handle the intensive rendering processes required for their animated features.

When Skipper says he can use the chimps fron cortexes and opposable thumbs, Phil suggests where he would like to stick his opposable thumbs...

Jobs financed the company himself and gave his new employees freedom to explore what they could do. It was part of Jobs's evolving vision of computers: he became an advocate of the technology as enhancing creativity

At this time, no information has been released about a sequel.

there are two movies, batman begins and batman returns

Pixar is an in house studio, and for that policy, does not accept any outside story ideas. If material is submitted, it is unopened and is either returned or discarded because of there policy. However, if you get a job at Pixar as a story board artist, or decided to be part of the creative team, you will be placed in an environment perfect for you ideas. If you work hard there in the story department, and become a crown member of the story facility, then you probably have the opportunity to submit a pitch to the facility.

Sid Phillips-Toy Story

Hopper-A Bug's Life

Stinky Pete The Prospector-Toy Story 2

Randall Boggs-Monsters, Inc

Bruce-Finding Nemo

Syndrome-The Incredibles

Chick Hicks-Cars

Skinner-Ratatouille

AUTO-Wall-E

Charles F. Muntz-Up

Lotso-Toy Story 3

Miles Axlerod-Cars 2

Pixar was started in California at Lucasfilm.

yes and it is awesome. go see it if you already havent.

Up was Pixar's first film to be presented in Disney Digital 3-D .

Luxo

Sort of. Disney bought Pixar in 2006, so I guess not really. It depends on how you look at it.

Over time, production costs have increased. Toy story cost $30 million dollars to make, while UP cost $175 million. This is due to the amount of people that work on the project, and the technology required to make the production.

Finding Nemo's sequel is Finding Dory and its scheduled release date is November 25th, 2015.

"Transformers" was produced by Dreamworks .

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

Disney/ Pixar is a mixture of two major movie making productions: Disney AND Pixar. Disney/ Pixar have formed together to make such movies as Finding Nemo, etc.

Pixar has not always been an independent company. They were originally the graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd. owned by George Lucas. In the 1980s, they were bought by Steve Jobs for $10 million and they became an independent company. So, in a way, Pixar's original name was Lucasfilm Ltd.

Depends on how much work you put into a movie and how consistant you are in completing it. Some start a movie and wait a week to continue filming. Others waste no time and film everyday. Movies that contain alot of action and special effects require about 6 months or longer (years). So producers need to make sure that the movie they're making is worth the time and effort.

However, if you're talking an average 2 hour movie, filming for 12-18 hours per day (that's realistic), you're looking at 14-20 days of shooting, factoring in times for reshoots, waiting for proper light, etc.