History Creation of Pixar
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The Pixar studios started with a division by a Lucasfilm's' group named Graphics Group, led by Edwin E. Catmull, creating graphics computing's software with the collaboration with 'Industrial Light & Magic' in the creation of visual effects.
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With a signed contract with 'Walt Disney Company', the animation studios received $26 million to create 3 featured films: Toy Story (1995), Bug’s Life (1997) and Toy Story 2 (1999).
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Graphics Group in 1986 was bought by Steve Jobs (Apple's co-funder) for $1o million, staying Jobs as CEO and Ed Catmull as president, establishing then a new company: Pixar.
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Later on, Disney dealt with the distribution, marketing and commercialization and Pixar dealt with the movies’ production.
After Toy Story's release, the two companies signed a new contract, in which the profits would be divided and the movie's’ copyright would belong to Disney.
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The new company resulted by the combination of two words and its respective concepts - 'pixel' + 'art', being traduced as "the creation of art through pixels", key-words that a good animation company pretends to conceive.
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After the contract's end, the two companies begun a new contract that was not accepted by Disney because the profits weren’t being well distributed. With this, Pixar tried to found new companies to make a contract with, when Disney, as it resigned its first movies’ copyright, begun the production of Toy Story 3, without Pixar's knowledge.
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At the begining, John Lasseter, an artist, worked with Ed. Catmull to create a new program of graphic computing. To publish that software, John Lasseter created short films like The Adventures of Andre and Wally B and Luxo Jr. who spread not only the software but also their capacities and artistic creations of the new company.
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In January 2006, Pixar and Disney achieved a deal, in which Disney bought Pixar for $7,4 billion, making Steve Jobs the most individual shareholder of the company.
![Firt Feature Film: Toy Story](images/historypage/firstfeaturefilm.jpg)
Ten years later with a more developed software, Pixar and John Lasseter begun to create a new project: to create the first film made in graphic computing.
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Currently, Pixar keeps producing great successful movies in various levels and engineering sequels for its first movies.