Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios , is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. Pixar is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Luxo Jr., a character from the short film of the same name, is the Pixar mascot.
Luxo Jr and Luxo Sr, Characters starring in Pixars first ever animation
The studio is best known for its CGI animated feature films created with Render man, its own implementation of the industry standard render man image-rendering application programming interface used to generate high-quality images. Pixar started off with Luxo Jr, in 1985 Pixars first animated short was created shortly after the newly created Pixar studios was formed. Pixar have since animated up to 16 feature length fully animated films and have won countless awards over this time.
Examples of Pixar created animated films.
Pixar took inspiration from Disney to animate and has a similar art style to the company, They often work together on the same projects leading to many animated movies becoming Disney Pixar productions.
Pixar use computer technology and stop frames of drawn art that is then imported into animation software to achive their results. The company was created in 1974 by Alexander Schure. Alexander Schure recruited computer scientists who shared his ambitions about creating the world's first computer animated movie. In 1982, the team began working on special effects to use in film sequences with Industrial Light & Magic.
Disney
The Walt Disney company, commonly known as Disney, is an american diversified multinational media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney studios in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16th 1923, by Walt Disney and Roy O. Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, The company has products such as films, Animated shorts, Toys, Clothing, television channels and theme parks. The company also operated under the names The Walt Disney Studio, the Walt Disney Productions. Taking on its current name in 1986, it expanded its existing operations and also started divisions focused upon theatre, radio, music, publishing, and online media.
Walt Disney was entrepreneur, Voice actor and Cartoonist. He worked as a commercial illustrator after being interested in drawing as a boy and eventually moved to Hollywood with his brother Roy. O. Disney and set up the Disney brothers studio, Later to become the Walt Disney Company. Walt created the character Mickey Mouse in 1928, Now the mascot of the company and possibly the most well known animated character worldwide.
This video shows the 30s production process used by animation companies around the world, As can be seen the production process is very long and needs countless hours of conventional animation techniques such as drawing, tracing and painting to be realised.
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