Pixar Overview

Pixar Animation Studios is an American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California, United States, and is notable for its eight Academy Awards. It is best known for its CGI-animated feature films, including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille, which are... [more]

Pixar Animation Studios is an American computer animation studio based in Emeryville, California, United States, and is notable for its eight Academy Awards. It is best known for its CGI-animated feature films, including Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and Ratatouille, which are created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-standard Renderman image rendering API, used to generate high-quality images. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 from majority shareholder Steve Jobs—who had previously acquired it from Lucasfilm—through an all-stock transaction worth US$7.4 billion. [show less]