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13 unusual facts about Pixar


Elizabethan collar

The Elizabethan collar plays a role in the Pixar film Up, where it is used as a public humiliation device for a dog and is called the "Cone of Shame".

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation

In re: High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation is a class-action lawsuit on behalf of over 64,000 employees of Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm (the last two are subsidiaries of Disney) against their employer alleging that their wages were repressed due to alleged agreements between their employers not to hire employees from their competitors.

High-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation involves a 2010 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust action and a 2013 civil class action against Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar and Lucasfilm for alleged "no cold call" agreements which restrained the recruitment of high-tech employees.

IMac G4

Apple advertised the iMac G4 as having the adjustability of a desk lamp, and was nicknamed the "iLamp", similar to "Luxo Jr.", who was featured in a short film produced by Pixar, another venture of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

Infertility

Pixar's Up contains a depiction of infertility in an extended life montage that lasts the first few minutes of the film.

Proof of concept

Similarly, Pixar created several short films as proofs of concept for new techniques for water motion, sea anemone tentacles, and a slowly appearing whale in preparation for the production of Finding Nemo.

Pixar sometimes creates short animated films that use a difficult or untested technique.

Robert B. Ingebretsen

Ingebretsen worked with Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull in 1972 to produce one of the first digital films, a 20-second portrait of a human hand.

Ross Technology

It was an emergency engineering-wide Ross hyperSPARC upgrade which enabled Steve Jobs' Pixar to complete and deliver their animated movie Toy Story to Disney on schedule after the existing Sun Microsystems machines were overwhelmed in the late product development stage by Pixar's demanding new technology.

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

It covers his period at NeXT, success at Pixar and his comeback to Apple followed by the introduction of iMac.

Tommy Pickles and The Great White Thing

According to "Helvetica Gold", the Star Ball was originally designed by Pixar for their short, Luxo, Jr..

Torin's Passage

Lead Animator Jim Murphy went on to work for Pixar and lead background artist Bruce Sharp went on to work for Microsoft.

Tour d'Argent

The restaurant inspired scenes in the 2007 Pixar movie Ratatouille, and received an "unexpected boost" from the film.


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Asobo Studio

The player can then team up with Pixar Heroes from Ratatouille, The Incredibles, Cars, Up and Toy Story and save the day in 15 thrilling adventures.

Balanced-arm lamp

Two spring balanced desk lamps of this type feature as the main characters in the Pixar animated film Luxo Jr..

Biometrics

The Disney, Pixar 2004 film The Incredibles shows a scene where Mrs Incredible visits Edna Mode (a fashion designer for superhero costumes) at her mansion.

Boundin'

Boundin' is a 2003 Pixar computer-animated short film which was shown in theaters before the feature length film The Incredibles.

Brannon

Ash Brannon, lead animator for Pixar's first feature length animation

British Standard Whitworth

In the 2011 movie Cars 2 by Disney / Pixar, the vital clue to the discovery of the villain, Sir Miles Axlerod, is that he uses Whitworth bolts.

Buzz Lightyear attractions

The Buzz Lightyear attractions (a.k.a. Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, Buzz Lightyear's AstroBlasters, or Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast, depending on the park) are a series of Tomorrowland video-game-inspired attractions based on the Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 2 at Disney Parks around the world.

Circle 7 Animation

With the success of Toy Story 2 in 1999, then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner and then-Pixar owner Steve Jobs began to disagree on how Pixar should be run and the terms of a continued relationship.

Computer Animation Production System

Since the merger with Pixar, as most of CAPS was shut down and dismantled, Disney's subsequent traditionally animated productions (How to Hook Up Your Home Theater, The Princess and the Frog, The Ballad of Nessie, and the new Winnie the Pooh) were produced using Toon Boom Harmony computer software, which offered an updated digital animation system.

Dan Lee

He worked on television cartoons and commercials for several studios, including Kennedy Cartoons in Toronto and Colossal Pictures in San Francisco before joining Pixar in June 1996.

Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In

While researching the history of Route 66 for the 2006 Disney/Pixar motion picture Cars, John Lasseter met Delgadillo's brother, Seligman barber and Route 66 historian, Angel Delgadillo, who told him how traffic through the town virtually disappeared on the day that nearby Interstate 40 opened.

Disney Fantasy

While the Animator's Palate on Disney Dream presents a dinner show with Crush the Sea Turtle from Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo, the Fantasy, in addition, presents an "Animation Magic" dinner show hosted by Sorcerer Mickey, where guests have a chance to draw their own characters and see their drawings come to life.

Disney Universe

It features the ability to suit up as characters from multiple Disney franchises, including the full-length animated feature films like The Lion King, Pixar feature films like Monsters, Inc., live-action films like Pirates of the Caribbean and television series like The Muppet Show.

East Australian Current

In the 2003 animated Disney Pixar film Finding Nemo, the EAC is portrayed as a superhighway that fish and sea turtles use to travel down the east coast of Australia.

Enrico Casarosa

Before joining Pixar, Casarosa also worked as a storyboard artist at Blue Sky Studios on Ice Age and Robots.

Glenn McQueen

In 1994 he moved to Pixar Animation Studios (partly due to his interest in Toy Story and his respect for John Lasseter), where he supervised the animation on Pixar's early successes, including Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters, Inc..

If I Didn't Have You

"If I Didn't Have You" is a song written by singer-songwriter Randy Newman, that appears during the end credits of the 2001 Disney·Pixar animated film, Monsters, Inc.

Johnny Neel

Neel has provided vocals on five songs included on four Walt Disney Records CD releases, related to the Pixar Animation Studios movie releases, Finding Nemo, Cars, and Ratatouille.

Joseph Eichler

The Parr family home in the Pixar animated feature The Incredibles appears to be an Alexander home—another type of tract-home design similar to Eichlers.

JrMan

jrMan renderer is an open source version of the Reyes rendering algorithm used by Pixar's PhotoRealistic RenderMan, implemented in Java by Gerardo Horvilleur, Jorge Vargas, Elmer Garduno and Alessandro Falappa.

Katherine Sarafian

She started at Pixar as an artist but was shifted from the art department to marketing during the making of A Bug's Life by Pixar head Steve Jobs.

Mater and the Ghostlight

This sequence culminates with Mater teasing Lightning as if he had seen "the Ghostlight," a Route 66 legend recounted to Pixar by Dean Walker of the Kansas Historic Route 66 Association.

Megaceras briansaltini

Megaceras briansaltini, named in honor of Brian Saltin, son of entomologist Jochen-P. Saltin, is a Peruvian rhinoceros beetle with a horn surprisingly similar to that of the character Dim from Pixar's animated film, A Bug's Life (created eight years before the beetle's discovery), previously unseen in nature (coined the Dim Effect by its discoverer Brett C. Ratcliffe).

Mike's New Car

Directed by Pete Docter and Roger L. Gould, it is the first Pixar short to utilize dialogue and the first to take characters and situations from a previously established work.

Mike's Super Short Show

Mike's Super Short Show is a former Disney Channel series of promotional advertisements made in the manner of a regular series which mainly promoted upcoming VHS/DVD releases from Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar, along with The Walt Disney Company's theme park properties.

Mr. Incredible and Pals

Incredible and Pals is an animated short film produced by Pixar, and included as a bonus on the DVD edition of its 2004 feature film The Incredibles.

Paramount Resources

In addition to its own name, Paramount has several subsidiaries with names resembling those of Hollywood companies, including Fox Drilling, Summit Resources, and Pixar Petroleum.

Pat Hanrahan

As a founding employee at Pixar Animation Studios in the 1980s, Hanrahan was part of the design of the RenderMan Interface Specification and the RenderMan Shading Language.

Pixlet

When it was introduced by Steve Jobs at Worldwide Developers Conference 2003, it was said that the codec was developed at the request of animation company Pixar.

RenderMan Artists Tools

RenderMan Artist Tools, also known at R.A.T. is a set of plug-ins and tools produced by Pixar for better integration of Pixar Animation Studio's PhotoRealistic RenderMan and Autodesk's Maya.

Teddy Newton

At Pixar, he also co-wrote the short film Jack-Jack Attack and did the voices of the newsreel narrator in The Incredibles, Skinner's lawyer in Ratatouille, the 'Steward' robots in Wall-E, a television commercial salesman in Up, Chatter Telephone in Toy Story 3, and Mini Buzz in Toy Story Toons: Small Fry.

Tiny Toy Stories

In November 2007, Pixar released Pixar Short Films Collection – Volume 1, which featured all of Pixar's animated short films up through 2006's Lifted.

Victoria Philharmonic Choir

Using the artistic design skills of popular animator Michel Gagné, of Disney and Pixar Studios and the shadow puppet artistry of Gemini-winning puppeteer Tim Gosley, the drama of Dvorak’s scary and compelling work will be cast in shadows on the walls of the UVIC Farquhar theatre as the choir and orchestra perform.

Walt Disney Studios Park

In August 2010, Toy Story Playland opened to coincide with the new Disney·Pixar film Toy Story 3, "shrinking" guests to the size of a toy, and comprises three attractions, as well as several photo opportunities.

Yuji Tanaka

He also played Mike in the Japanese dub of the Pixar movie Monsters, Inc. and Br'er Fox in the Japanese dub of the Disney movie Song of the South (special edition).

Zero-point energy

In Disney/Pixar's animated film The Incredibles, the main villain Syndrome refers to his weapons as using zero-point energy.