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• "I can go to Disney and be a director, or I can stay here and make history"

  In honor of "Tin Toy" 's 20th anniversary, Jim Hill shares an excerpt from David A. Price's "The Pixar Touch" which talks about the creation of this Academy Award-winning short Read More... Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 12:00 AM | 8 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, Pixar, computer animation, CG, John Lasseter, Pixar Animation Studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney Studios, Academy Award, Disney / Pixar, Disney Feature Animation, SIGGRAPH, animated short, short, Andrew Stanton, Luxo Jr, Red's Dream, Tin Toy, Oscar-winning , Oscar, Academy Award winner, shorts, Apple, Disney Pixar , David A Price, The Pixar Touch : The Making of a Company, Alvy Ray Smith, PDI, Pacific Data Image

• The Pixar TV special you never got to see, "A Tin Toy Christmas"

  Jim Hill shares what he's learned about this abandoned project. Which (in a roundabout way) provided the inspiration for Pixar Animation Studios' first feature-length production, "Toy Story" Read More... Posted Friday, December 14, 2007 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: book, Disney, Pixar, John Lasseter, Disney Press, Pixar Animation Studios, Toy Story, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tim Burton, Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, Jack Skellington, movie, Walt Disney Feature Animation, SIGGRAPH, short, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Luxo Jr, Red's Dream, Tin Toy, A Tin Toy Christmas, Joe Ranft, Peter Schneider, Pixar Image Computer, Batman

• "To Infinity and Beyond!" is an entertaining look back at Pixar's first two decades

  Jim Hill reviews Karen Paik's inspired (more importantly, inspiring) new history of Pixar Animation Studios. Which offers a lot of insight about how John Lasseter became the Big Kahuna of the CG world Read More... Posted Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: animation, book, Disney, movies, Pixar, computer animation, CG, John Lasseter, John Musker, Cars, Ratatouille, Leslie Iwerks, Brad Bird, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Ron Miller, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, WDAS, featurette, Monsters Inc., The Pixar Story, To Infinity and Beyond: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios, Karen Paik, Ed Catmull, Steve Jobs, Walt Disney Studios, film, movie, Mouse, Disney / Pixar, 2007, Tis the season, feature film , Chronicle Books, The Art of Animation, Bob Thomas, cartoons, epiphany, coffee table book, hardcover, church, pew, gourd, sermon, pencil, pencil time, award, The Headless Horseman, The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr Toad, station wagon, Casper the Friendly Ghost, California Institute of the Arts, CalArts, character animation, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Disney Feature Animation, calcified, middle management, The Fox and the Hound, old guard, Tom Wilhite, Maurice Sendak, picture book, Where the Wild Things Are, Thomas M Disch, The Brave Little Toaster, banners, Lucasfilm, The Adventures of Andre & Wally B, SIGGRAPH, animated short, short, character comedy, cutting-edge technology, money pit, Jane Eisner, Roald Dahl, James and the Giant Peach, human costs, keyboard, repetitive-stress injury, The Art of Ratatouille, aspiring animator, holiday shopping list