Pixars early days

Pixar technically began in 1979 but where known as the Graphics Group at the computer division of Lucasfilm, untill 1986 with funding by co-founder Steve Jobs, allowing pixar to go solo as a company. When part of Lucasfilm they created The Adventures of André & Wally B which was there first short film. It used complex flexible characters, hand-painted textures, and motion blur, which was still at the time ground breaking animation technology. 



When pixar first started around 44 people were employed under steve jobs. The short film, Luxo Jr by John Lasseter’s directorial debut, at Los Angeles-area theaters in November 1986. Luxo Jr. was the first three-dimensional computer animated film to be nominated for the Best Animated Short Film Oscar. Pioneering the dimensional animations we know today, helping the creation of toy story. 

In 1995 Toy Story was released as the world’s first computer animated feature film, which brought pizar and its skills to the limelight opening a new route into animation. In order to create Toy story with Disney they brought to there final meeting an idea for a half-hour television special called A Tin Toy Christmas. They decided a television program would be a sensible way to gain experience before attempting a feature film, and to show there capability. After alot of negotiation between disney and the rights they would hold on the film and its sequels an agreement to produce a feature film based on Tin Toy but under the name Toy Story was agreed and production began soon thereafter.