In the beginning, it was George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars and Indiana Jones, that created this group as a way to add animated sequences to films. In 1979, he hired Ed Catmull “to head Lucasfilm’s Computer Division, a group charged with developing state-of-the-art computer technology for the …show more content…
Bird directed Ratatouille, which featured talking rats with a passion to cook. The film was released in 2007 and was nominated for many awards. During this time, the studio started producing Cars Toons, which is a series of short films starring the characters from the Cars films. In 2008, Pixar released the film WALL•E. The critics loved how Pixar addressed a dark topic but made children aware of the problem of our overflowing trash supplies. The film made use of live action, even if it was in a very small portion. The film had been discussed since the release of Toy Story. The year after WALL•E, Pixar decided to pull the world's heart strings and release UP, a movie about an old man who follows his late wife’s dream to live at the top of Paridise Falls. The movie featured over 10,000 balloons, that carry Carl’s house to the area in South America. This seems like a big challenge. They had to render every one of those 10,000 balloons. When you think about that, you realize how much time that the employees work on these films. Fifteen years after the release of Toy Story, Pixar produced the third chapter to this saga. Toy Story 3 won countless awards, such as Best Animated Feature