Word: computerizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It is if you're Pixar Animation Studios, the hottest place on the planet these days for computer animators. For 60 years, Disney owned animation, from Snow White to The Lion King. But when Toy Story 2 opens this Thanksgiving, upstart Pixar will seal its place as the new standard...
The studio's first two computer-generated hits, 1995's Toy Story and last year's A Bug's Life, are already among the Top 5-grossing animated films of all time. Monsters, Inc., its fourth feature-length film, is set for 2001. "Pixar is about movies with heart, humor...
The 430 denizens who work here include a European rock star and a co-founder of the Flying Karamazov Brothers, as well as a dozen or more Ph.D.s. Job descriptions are fluid: chief technical officer Ed Catmull, one of the true pioneers of computer graphics, now heads up the story...
Boasting aside, Pixar does seem to be light-years ahead technologically. Pixar's animation software, RenderMan, created the dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park as well as the battle droids in the latest Star Wars. Jobs spends more than $5 million a year on computer R. and D., and...
Perhaps the biggest new feature in 5.0 is "You've Got Pictures," a collaboration with Kodak. AOL users can now drop off their 35-mm or APS film at any of the 38,000 participating Kodak service centers in the U.S. After specifying that you want the service, you pick...