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Title	:	The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company
Author	:	David A. Price
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	May 13th 2008 by Knopf (first published January 1st 2008)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Business. Biography. History. Science. Technology. Culture. Film. Audiobook

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The Pixar Touch is a lively chronicle of Pixar Animation Studios' history and evolution, and the "fraternity of geeks" who shaped it. With the help of visionary businessman Steve Jobs and animating genius John Lasseter, Pixar has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking, beginning with a short special effects shot made at Lucasfilm in 1982 all the way up through the landmark films Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, and others. David A. Price goes behind the scenes of the corporate feuds between Lasseter and his former champion, Jeffrey Katzenberg, as well as between Steve Jobs and Michael Eisner. And finally he explores Pixar's complex relationship with the Walt Disney Company as it transformed itself into the $7.4 billion jewel in the Disney crown.

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Original Title:	The Pixar Touch
ISBN:	0307265757 (ISBN13: 9780307265753)
Edition Language:	English

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Interesting history of Pixar's turbulent beginnings. The Pixar founders just wanted to make computer animated entertainment. But to keep the financing going, they had to masquarade as a hardware/software company for Lucasfilm and then later for Steve Jobs, who purchased Pixar for a mere $5 million from Lucasfilm. It's amazing how none of the financial backers (George Lucas & Steven Jobs) or potential buyer (Disney/Eisner/Jeffery Katzenberg) never saw the creative potential of Pixar. It's

You'll want to read Creativity Inc instead of this book. This is a mundane, outsiders view that didn't at all live up to its title. It felt like a collection of facts rather than stories about the processes that made such great movies.

Interesting read. Enjoyed learning about how Pixar got started. Also enjoyed learning about the inspiration for some of the movies and the revisions they went through.

I really enjoyed the beginning of this book and was especially intrigued by the role the University of Utah (my alma mater) played in the earliest developments in computer animation. However, I have to confess I got a bit bored during the descriptions of one technological development after another, and then by the in-depth description of all the politics and feuds in the Disney and Pixar worlds. That was followed by details of the plot development of eight or nine Pixar films. Yawn. Still, the

The most interesting thing about Pixar's founding is that there were so many stars that had to align, and so many things that almost went wrong, that it's amazing that it exists at all, let alone in the shape it's in today. I enjoyed the look behind the curtain afforded by this book, and it gave me new appreciation for the movies. I'm going to have to go watch them all again now.

Just WOW! This book tells you a story behind so much loved movies that Pixar created. I never knew that for "Finding Nemo" they hired marine scientist and cut fishes to make them more real on screen. These guys rock!

Reading and watching movies are my addictions of choice, and animated movies are especially dear to me even now that I am no longer a child, which is the expected target demographic of animated films. Therefore, it should be no surprise that Pixar movies are ingrained in my childhood and worldview overall. That's why I was so glad that I stumbled upon this book.I like biographies (occasionally) of things I like and I like Pixar, so it was not that hard to enjoy this. Although I was afraid there