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Since 2006, Pixar has been a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, a segment of the Walt Disney Company. Pixar started in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division. It was known as the Graphics Group before its spin-off as a corporation in 1986, with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who became its ...
Retrieved May 13, 2014. Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group, Inc., an entertainment production company, produces and distributes scripts and oversees films for Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, and Hollywood Pictures. The company was formerly known as Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group.
John Lasseter. John Alan Lasseter (/ ˈlæsətər / LASS-ə-tər; born January 12, 1957) [ 5 ] is an American film director, producer, and animator. He has served as the Head of Animation at Skydance Animation since 2019. [ 6 ] Previously, he acted as the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and ...
Walt Disney Feature Animation, France S.A. (DAF), also credited as Walt Disney Feature Animation - Paris, France [ 44 ] and originally named Brizzi Films, was an animation company based in Paris, France that operated from 1986 to 2007. Brizzi Films was founded by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi in 1986, in Paris, France.
1994. Frank Wells, president of The Walt Disney Company, dies in a helicopter crash. Jeffrey Katzenberg resigns as studio chairman to co-found his own studio, DreamWorks SKG. The first Walt Disney Gallery opens at the MainPlace Mall in Santa Ana, California on November 4. Disney Interactive is formed on December 5.
Robert E. Stephenson [ 1 ] Edwin Earl Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist and animator who served as the co-founder of Pixar and the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics, including the 2019 ACM Turing Award.
Disney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Experiences division. Based on a concept by Marty Sklar, Randy Bright, and Michael Eisner, the park opened on May 1, 1989, as the Disney–MGM Studios Theme Park, and was ...
Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), [ 6 ] sometimes shortened to Disney Animation, is an American animation studio that creates animated features and short films for The Walt Disney Company. The studio's current production logo features a scene from its first synchronized sound cartoon, Steamboat Willie (1928).