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Pixar Animation Studios

Also Known As Pixar
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An American computer animation studio founded on 3 February 1986 by Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who paid five million dollars for the underlying technology rights from George Lucas and invested a further five million dollars as capital. Its 1995 feature Toy Story was the first fully computer-animated feature film, a breakthrough that made Pixar the first computer animation studio to succeed at theatrical features, and the studio became a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios in 2006.

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1986 1
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Emeryville, California, United States 1
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On February 3, 1986, he paid $5 million of his own money to George Lucas for technology rights and invested $5 million cash as capital into the company
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Pixar (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    Pixar (), doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its commercially successful computer-animated feature films.
  • Animation History Significance section
    Toy Story (1995), which is also the first fully computer-animated feature film
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