Pixar's 25th Anniversary: How The Studio Changed Animation

How Pixar Changed Everything

Exactly 25 years ago, a little desk lamp pounced on a rubber ball and accidentally deflated it. The lamp sadly hopped away, only to return seconds later with an even larger, more impressive ball. In a way, Luxo Jr., which premiered at a Dallas computer-graphics conference called SIGGRAPH on Aug. 17, 1986, is the perfect metaphor for the then-fledgling studio that created it: Pixar. The short film announced the arrival of a new player in the animation scene, but Pixar had much larger toys waiting in store.
On the 25th anniversary of Pixar's first project, it seems appropriate to consider exactly how the studio has altered the world of animation.

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