Who has not heard about such cartoons as "Monsters, Inc.," "WALL-E," "Cars," "Ratatouille," "Finding Nemo," "Toy Story"? I think there are very few of these. All these exciting plot, as a realistic depiction of fairy-tale characters, and the whole picture as a whole. And now it is releasing the original animation studio «Pixar», whose history begins in 1979. It was founded by George Lucas, creator of the famous "Star Wars."
Active development studio started when Steve Jobs, the founder and CEO of Apple, bought it in 1986. Under his professional guidance and started the rise of the studio from which the product can not come off as a child and adult. Studio «Pixar» is located in the town of Emerivill (CA). The main building, which covers an area of ??20 thousand square meters, is named in honor of Steve Jobs (SteveJobsBuilding) and not just because of the fact that he bought the company and contributed to its development, but because Jobs personally oversaw the design and construction of the studio, up to select the color of brick.
Coming into SteveJobsBuilding, you get into a huge two-tiered atrium in which employees meet the characters of VAZ 2013, Mike and James Sullivan, the main characters of the animated film "Monsters University". Also on the ground floor is a bar with breakfast cereals (cerealbar), there are more than a hundred different kinds of cereal, cereal, milk, fruit, jams. A restaurant is located across from a wood-burning oven for pizza, burritos bar. Incidentally, the idea was to Jobs, to gather in a cafe and people of different departments crossed the studio, even the toilet is on the ground floor only. On the second level of the building presented a study and gallery paintings multipliers. The left wing of the building work by artists and animators who equips studio on your taste - an African hut, studio with a bar and someone is almost a tropical island. Immediately evident that all men are exceptionally creative.
Interesting Facts:
• Pixar name stands for "pixel".
• Each cartoon studio «Pixar» present number A113. It is not a coincidence. This room had a room in the school CalArt, which engaged John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton - geniuses who have made an enormous contribution to the development of the animation studio «Pixar». For example, in the animated film "Finding Nemo" A113 - serial number of the camera with which the diver removes the clown fish Nemo, before his words: and in the cartoon "Monsters, Inc." Sally saw room A113 in the background when Smith and Needleman ship shredder waste.
• Chamber of Secrets in the animation studio Pixar. Animator Andrew Gordon found her behind furniture in his office, it was a small door through which through the ventilation pipes could get into the niche, artificially formed through the roundness of the building. Over time, the room was upgraded more convenient entrance - through a sliding bookcase.
• In 2015, the studio «Pixar» plans to release the animated film "Finding Dory", which will be a continuation of the world famous cartoon "Finding Nemo." We look forward to!
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