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...named Chicken Little gets bonked by an acorn, mistakes this minor incident for an astral calamity and frightens the neighbors by exclaiming, "The sky is falling!" In the world of traditional animation, when computer-generated (CG) 3-D cartoons came in, the sky did fall. The first piece was Pixar, with such movies as Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. Another chunk was DreamWorks (the Shreks). And, yes, an outfit called Blue Sky fell too, with Ice Age and Robots. Hand-drawn, or 2-D, animation was instantly kaput. Chicken Little was right...
...Hand-drawn feature animation was an art form it created and then nurtured for six decades, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 through the '94 smash The Lion King. Who could imagine that the empire would crumble? And why, when Disney had a distribution pact with Pixar, should the parent studio pursue CG animation? The box office answered both questions briskly: of the 10 top-grossing animated films since 1995, when Toy Story became the first computerized cartoon feature, all but one (Disney's Tarzan...
...unlike almost any other high-tech company, Apple refuses to run its decisions by focus groups. But Jobs is a hardened gambler, and he doesn't scare easily. This is the guy who coolly poured millions of his own dollars into an unknown and direly unprofitable company called Pixar before anybody had even made a full-length computer-animated movie. "The more we started to talk about what this could be," Jobs says, "it wasn't long before I said, 'You know, what if we just bet our future on this? Is that possible?' And everybody immediately looked pretty scared...
...done for decades yet Hollywood hasn't quite caught on to. "We make films for half or a third of the cost," Lucas told TIME. "The film industry still has to go through the Internet phase." Lucas and his colleagues pioneered the first nonlinear digital-editing systems, started Pixar in 1983 and developed the first computer-animation systems, which led to breakout hits like Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Hewlett-Packard plans to deliver 1,000 workstations and high-end storage equipment for producing video games and visual effects. Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron 64-bit processors drive Letterman's computer...
...over 200 injuries. An Islamic extremist group called Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh claimed responsibility in leaflets left near the bombing sites, declaring that "It is time to implement Islamic law in Bangladesh" and "Bush and Blair be warned and get out of Muslim countries." DIED. JOE RANFT, 45, respected Pixar story artist who served as a key creative force behind many of the company's hit animated films, including Toy Story, which earned him an Oscar nod in 1995; in a car accident; in Mendocino County, California. Ranft also did voice-over work on many of his films, most famously...