A Story Of Computer-Generated Movies

To Infinity: How Pixar Brought Computers to the Movies

From CNET Magazine: "Toy Story," the first full-length computer-animated movie, turns 20 this month. Behind Woody and Buzz are a bunch of computer graphics geeks who, with help from Steve Jobs, changed movies forever.

Richard Nieva | November 12, 2015

Ed Catmull's office could be a window into the brain of Pixar.
Catmull, president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios, sits at a round wooden table at Pixar's whimsical headquarters in Emeryville, California. To his right, the walls are filled with items that inspire creativity. There's a plaster mold of his left hand: the star of the first computer-animated short he made in 1972 as a graduate student at the University of Utah. There are also toys galore, a collection of old watches, and trinkets that look like they were picked up at souvenir stands around the world.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8546871/Top-ten-box-office-hits-rely-heavily-on-CGI.html

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