The Real Story of Pixar
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The Real Story of Pixar
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#2This article focuses on the technical side of Pixar, which was truly revolutionary. But the thing that makes Pixar a really amazing company is that they also have great graphical designers and story writers. It is the integration that makes Pixar movies so great.
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#3Another part of the story easily forgotten because it doesn't show in glossy management books: https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/pixars-ed-catmull-emerg...
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#4They tried to sell my dad some machines. He was in the oil industry. The sale didn't work out. My dad later had a job interview with them. That didn't work out either. Both were probably for the best, but what a different life I would have had if either had gone the other way.
Re: The Real Story of Pixar
#5Another part of the story easily forgotten because it doesn't show in glossy management books: https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/pixars-ed-catmull-emerg...
Re: The Real Story of Pixar
#6This article focuses on the technical side of Pixar, which was truly revolutionary. But the thing that makes Pixar a really amazing company is that they also have great graphical designers and story writers. It is the integration that makes Pixar movies so great.
When I attended WWDC 2018, one of Pixar's lead lighting engineers gave a high-level presentation on the intertwining of math/physics/art to shade animated scenes in their movies. I would love to walk through one of their internal scene files and inspect all the polygon's on Woody's shirt. It's a fascinating intersection of programming not many people relate to.
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#7They tried to sell my dad some machines. He was in the oil industry. The sale didn't work out. My dad later had a job interview with them. That didn't work out either. Both were probably for the best, but what a different life I would have had if either had gone the other way.
What kind of work was he doing for them to try to sell to him? Same with the job interview?
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#8Another part of the story easily forgotten because it doesn't show in glossy management books: https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/pixars-ed-catmull-emerg...
And another one:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/john-las...
Re: The Real Story of Pixar
#9They tried to sell my dad some machines. He was in the oil industry. The sale didn't work out. My dad later had a job interview with them. That didn't work out either. Both were probably for the best, but what a different life I would have had if either had gone the other way.
What kind of work was he doing for them to try to sell to him? Same with the job interview?
> What kind of work was he doing for them to try to sell to him? Same with the job interview?
My understanding is that the oil and gas industry is pretty heavy needs for scientific computation and data visualization. That's how they discover new places to drill.
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#10They tried to sell my dad some machines. He was in the oil industry. The sale didn't work out. My dad later had a job interview with them. That didn't work out either. Both were probably for the best, but what a different life I would have had if either had gone the other way.
Why was oil and gas a target for sales for them? I'm sure the industry has a ton of money, but back then what was the use case?