Monday 10 March 2014

Pixar Research

what is unique about the working culture and enviroment of pixar that has enabled them to be successfull?
The working enviroment and culture of pixar is known to the workers to be amazing and also fun to work for! The general public themselves would also say the same, claimig that they would also like to work there because it seems a fun place to work as it is a childrens pg animation studio with plenty of exciting things. The workers at pixar have spoken about the work enviroment of pixars studios plenty of times during tv interviews etc. Pixar studio workers have told interviewers that there is a bar that is in a hidden room behind a cupboard fill of books, that contains beer, wine and spirits, that can only be
accessed using a paskey entry system. Animators and production managers go there, there is also a guest book that has to be filled in before entering, the workers say that they enjoy this because it is a nice way to relax after a full late days working. Quotes from workers: "perfect working enviroment"; "feels eiter like a youth club or a well-founded cult". There is also a pizza room for the workers, and for the workers who work late they are aloud a free slice of pizza, there is alo a cereal bar which offers the same service. Pixar also made an enflatable highway - a room full of enflatables, this was made so that the animators could experience the scene in toy story where the toys are running through the rubbish.

Animation genre's:
Childrens, funny, entertaining, animation, family.
Recent sky advert "toy story of terror":
The sky "toy story of terror" promotion advert was guided by WRCS london, amd it was done by sky teaming up with disney pixar. It is also the first time disney has been involved in a co-branded movie chanel.
Improvement:
Pixar studios used to have only 46 employees, and was only a computer hard ware company, where as now it has 12 hundred people employed approximately, amd has won 26 oscars and taken $8 billion.
Basic information on pixar:
Pixar began in 1979 as the graphics group which was a third of lucas's films in the computer devision. Walt disney also bought pixar in 2006.
Awards:
1) golden lion for lifetime acheivement by the biennale venre film festival (2009) - john lasseter, brad bird, peter doctor, andrew santon, lee unkrich.
2) academy award for best animated feature - finding nemo (2003), the incredibles (2004), cars (2006), ratatouille (2007), Wall-E (2003), up (2009), toy story 3 (2010).
Important people etc.:
1) steve jobs - steve jobs is an american marketer and investor, he is alos a chairman amd a CEO of apple inc. cheif executive of pixar animation studios.
2) luxo jr. - this is a short animated film involving the lamp in the logo produced by pixar amd is directed by john lasseter in 1986.
3) Lucas film - lucas film's creates films using the entire entertainment spectrum dor example using production of original content, post production effects, audio for external clients, licsemsed products, gaming, animation, products, they also created the star wars films.
4) tin toy - tin toy is a short animation created 1988, produced by pixar and directed by jon lasseter. It was the third short film created in a small animation division.
5) Jon lasseter - jon lasseter is an american animator, film director, screenwriter, producer, cheif creative officer of pixar amd walt disney animaiton studios, and principle creative advisor for walt disney imagineering. Walkt dismey was jon lasseters first job, although he ended up being fired for promoting computering animation, after that he joined locas film who then sold him to pixar. He also directed toy story (1995) which was the first creation from pixar, a bugs life (1998), toy story 2 (1999), cars (2006), cars 2 (2011). Jon Lasseter has also wone 2 academy awards for short films, and a special acheivement award for toy story.

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