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Pixar and Steve Jobs in the book Creativity, Inc. Marvelous book. Has anyone else read it? #4 Rewatched the original Toy Story recently and completely forgot they credited Steve Jobs during the introduction. Nostalgia met feels. #5 Wow, a book that even a middle class person such as myself can afford! #6 Looks like this'd be a good read. I actually learned a lot about the relationship between Pixar and Steve Jobs in the book Creativity, Inc. Marvelous book. Has anyone else read it? No, I haven't, but thanks for the tip.Somebody send a copy to the Timinator.Cool beans, my library has it.And they have To Pixar and Beyond. Last edited: Nov 23, 2016 #7 Finally something priced in a range that is reasonable. It'll probably make more money than Apple will on their book. Sometimes people forget that volume sales at low prices can make more money than high prices and fewer sales. The Pixar book will probably sell quite well, and will probably make the author a ton of money. #8 Looks like a good read at a decent price. #9 Awesome! I will add this to my collection of Pixar books. #10 I feel like Pixar hasn't been the same since Jobs died. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but some of their more recent movies were... just not as good as the rest of Pixar's movies. Good Dinosaur, Cars 2, Monster University, and Brave were all kind of lousy for Pixar. I'm scared because they're doing a Cars 3.Finding Dory and Inside Out were both great, so not everything since the death of Jobs has been bad. But Cars 2, in 2011, was the first movie Pixar ever did that didn't seem amazing, after a streak of 11 A+++ movies in a row (from Toy Story in 1995 up to Toy Story 3 in 2010.) #11 More books coming out of Cupertino than computers...Yes, the Disney's MacBook and Apple's new movie Cars 3. #12 I feel like Pixar hasn't been the same since Jobs died. The sale to Disney probably had the greatest impact. #13 I feel like Pixar hasn't been the same since Jobs died. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but some of their more recent movies were... just not as good as the rest of Pixar's movies. Good Dinosaur, Cars 2, Monster University, and Brave were all kind of lousy for Pixar. I'm scared because they're doing a Cars 3.Finding Dory and Inside Out were both great, so not everything since the death of Jobs has been bad. But Cars 2, in 2011, was the first movie Pixar ever did that didn't seem amazing, after a streak of 11 A+++ movies in a row (from Toy Story in 1995 up to Toy Story 3 in 2010.) Steve Jobs had basically nothing to do with ANY Pixar movie. Ed Catmull (CEO of Pixar Animation) wrote an amazing book, called Creativity Inc., (you may have seen its cover before) about how Pixar movies are done and how The company keeps creativity up. Steve did a lot things for Pixar, but contribution to movies was not one of them.[doublepost=1479935624][/doublepost] Looks like this'd be a good read. I actually learned a lot about the relationship between Pixar and Steve Jobs in the book Creativity, Inc. Marvelous book. Has anyone else read it? I did. Simply amazing. #14 Steve Jobs had basically nothing to do with ANY Pixar movie. Ed Catmull (CEO of Pixar Animation) wrote an amazing book, called Creativity Inc., (you may have seen its cover before) about how Pixar movies are done and how the company keeps creativity up.Steve did a lot things for Pixar, but contribution to movies was not one of them.[doublepost=1479935624][/doublepost]I did. Simply amazing. Ahh. Your profile pic #15 Great - added to my Audible library.Did anyone read DisneyWar? I adore that book. It has brief mentions of Pixar. #16 Let me know what people here think. I saw it on the Amazon Kindle Store not too long ago but I assumed something fishy was going on because the reviews were all from people who know/have been in the same room as Levy, or people who seemed to think this was the 'best' Pixar book, and I hadn't seen it in the press until now.

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#1 Steve Jobs' history with the now-acclaimed animation studio Pixar began in 1986 when the former Apple CEO purchased The Graphics Group, which was one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm, renamed it Pixar Animation Studios, and began guiding it into a burgeoning feature film production company. In a new book called To Pixar and Beyond, written by former Pixar chief financial officer Lawrence Levy, the history between Jobs and Pixar is highlighted and deepened by looking at the struggling early years of the studio (via Bloomberg).With the subtitle "My Unlikely Journey With Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History," Levy's financial knowledge of Pixar's early days helps to put the struggles that Jobs had in the mid-nineties with the company into context. By 1994, Jobs was said to have spent $50 million investing in Pixar, and his workings with some of the company's employees was reported as being "frayed." Pixar executives circa 1995: Lawrence Levy, CFO; Ed Catmull, CTO; Steve Jobs, CEO; John Lasseter, VP of Creative; Sarah McArthur, VP of Production​Working in 1994 as a technology executive within Silicon Valley, Levy said he received a call from Jobs that November and soon after became Pixar's CFO due to viewing rough footage of what would eventually become Toy Story, which was one year from debuting in theaters. Following the success of that movie, Levy remembered looking into the original deal Jobs made with Disney, and much of his new book describes the lengths the two went through to validate Pixar's worth within the larger context of Disney, eventually leading to the 2006 purchase of Pixar by Disney.The book isn't all business, however, with a few sections apparently offering "more insight" into the world of Steve Jobs when he wasn't working at Apple. For those who can't get enough of Jobs, Levy offers more insight into his world. A neighbor of Jobs in Palo Alto, California, back in the day, Levy describes a surprisingly laid-back scene where he could simply stroll through the entrepreneur's back door and go on long weekend walks with him, chatting about the business. The more controlling side of the future billionaire also comes across, as Levy describes a carefully choreographed Fortune profile in 1995 that rankled Pixar staffers because it focused mostly on Jobs. Levy's book ends at the sale in 2006, with Bloomberg noting that "readers looking for more of Pixar's recent history won't find it here." The history of the studio within the book accounts for movies ranging from Toy Story to The Incredibles, but doesn't include any behind-the-scenes knowledge of more recent releases, like last year's Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur.To Pixar and Beyond can be purchased on the iBooks Store for $14.99. [Direct Link](Image via This Day in Pixar)Article Link: History Between Steve Jobs and Pixar Highlighted in New Book 'To Pixar and Beyond' #2 More books coming out of Cupertino than computers... #3 Looks like this'd be a good read. I actually learned a lot about the relationship between. Myth 2. Steve Jobs co-founded Pixar. Myth 3. The movies were Steve Jobs's vision. Myth 4. Steve Jobs named Pixar. Myth 5. Steve Jobs ran Pixar. Myth 6. Steve Jobs's investment Myth 1. Steve Jobs bought Pixar from Lucasfilm. Myth 2. Steve Jobs co-founded Pixar. Myth 3. The movies were Steve Jobs's vision. Myth 4. Steve Jobs named Pixar. Myth 5. Steve Jobs

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Gets his face scanned before crossing over the bridge on the Day of the Dead. Juan's dentist is the one who remembers him in the Land of the Living, thanks to his massive mouth of metal. Pixar's personal ofrenda Getty Images Last but in no way least is a touching homage to a few influential creators who have sadly passed away. The Coco team included its very own ofrenda of sorts in the film's credits, with a series of photographs honoring those who've had an impact on Pixar as a whole. Three individuals whose influence continues to touch the studio beyond the grave are Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. who was also a CEO and shareholder of Pixar; Don Rickles, famed insult comic and the voice of Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Story movies; and Joe Ranft, the voice actor behind Heimlich in A Bug's Life and Jacques in Finding Nemo.Director Lee Unkrich confirmed Jobs and Rickles' inclusion to Metro earlier this year. "At the very end of the movie we kind of do a digital ofrenda, where we gave everyone in the company the opportunity to submit a photograph of someone in their life who is no longer with them but had been supportive of them," said Unkrich. "And we just filled the screen with hundreds and hundreds of these beautiful images. We included people in that group that we had lost from the Pixar family, people like Steve Jobs and Don Rickles." Published June 11, 2020 6:04pm EDT 'The Incredibles 2, 'Toy Story 4,' Finding Dory' have each grossed more than $1B The Walt Disney Company’s long history of success with animated films entered a new era with its acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios in 2006. After more than a decade of collaboration on hit franchises such as "Toy Story" and "Finding Nemo," Disney purchased Pixar for $7.4 billion. The all-stock deal established Apple founder Steve Jobs, who was Pixar’s CEO and majority shareholder, as Disney’s largest individual shareholder at the time.HOW DID DISNEY BUY STAR WARS? "Disney and Pixar can now collaborate without the barriers that come from two different companies with two different sets of shareholders," Jobs said in a statement at the time. "Now, everyone can focus on what is most important, creating innovative stories, characters and films that delight millions of people around the world." NIKE PLEDGES $40M TO SUPPORT BLACK COMMUNITY AFTER GEORGE FLOYD'S DEATHThe transaction solidified Disney’s status as a worldwide leader in animated films. Pixar movies have traditionally ranked among Disney’s top-earning properties.The studio has earned a total of 20 Academy Awards in its history. Several Pixar films, including "The Incredibles 2," "Toy Story 4" and "Finding Dory" have grossed more than $1 billion at the global box office.GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HEREPixar has four unnamed movie projects on its current roadmap. The animation studio will release one film in 2021, two films in 2022 and another film in 2023.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS

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Among the many things that made Steve Jobs, who died yesterday, a genius was the fact that he was, at heart, a storyteller.The word comes up again and again in his interviews and presentations. “Well, I’ll tell you a story,” he told Playboy, a multi-millionaire at 29. “Today I want to tell you three stories from my life,” he said in 2005 to a group of graduating Stanford students. The idea of a beginning, middle, and an end haunted Jobs, and motivated him. Especially the idea of an end: “almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure—these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important,” he told those students.When Steve Jobs was ousted from Apple in 1985, he mulled what to do next. He might have become something like Bill Gates in retirement, devoting all his efforts to the philanthropic foundation he founded. Something tugged him in another direction. He bought a company called Pixar from George Lucas, and spent the next 10 years nurturing it and repeatedly bailing it out. And then, well, you know the rest of the story. Jobs was already a very wealthy man, but the IPO and acquisition of Pixar by Disney is what made Jobs a billionaire.And it wasn’t just one corner of Hollywood that a Jobs company transformed. Among Apple’s many achievements, the importance of a piece of software—Final Cut Pro—is sometimes overlooked. It is not an overstatement to say that the intuitively designed digital editing program owned by Apple has transformed the way movies are made. Several Academy Award nominees for Best Editing have been forged on Final Cut Pro software, and one winner (The Social Network, somewhat fittingly). The program has transformed the face of independent filmmaking too, as one of the essential components that has lowered the cost and generally eased the process of making a film. (It’s a testament to the program’s importance that its recent, ill-designed update caused such an uproar.)But the most transformative effect Steve Jobs had on the way we tell stories surely came from his iRevolution, from the proliferation of those sleekly designed, elegant devices that have changed the way we interact with each other. I compose this post on a MacBook; much of the reporting I’ve done in my career that informs it was facilitated with an iPhone. I swear by both. As

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Energy and how things connect."19 Steve Jobs and Jony Ive, 28 Feb 2004 Jony Ive was Jobs's only soulmate at Apple, probably because of his aesthetic, artistic sensibility. Jobs deliberately put Industrial Design on top of every other division at Apple, to ensure that the most beautiful hardware prototypes eventually turned into actual products, without being twisted and deformed by engineers. He explained it to Isaacson: "[Jony Ive] understands that Apple is a product company. He's not just a designer. That's why he works directly for me. He has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me. There's no one who can tell him what to do, or to butt out. That's the way I set it up." Zen And The Art of Computing, John Taylor, The New York Times, 25 Oct 1987 ↩ iPod, Therefore I Am, Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair, 1 Apr 2006 ↩ The Seed of Apple's Innovation, Peter Burrows, BusinessWeek, 12 Oct 2004 ↩ Inside Apple, Adam Lashinsky, 25 Jan 2012 ↩ The True Story of Audion, Cabel Sasser, 2007 ↩ Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup, Victoria Barret, Forbes, 18 Oct 2011 ↩ Steve Jobs and the Portal to the Invisible, Tom Junod, Esquire, Oct 2008 ↩ Why is Pixar headquartered in Emeryville?, Craig Good, Quora, 10 Oct 2011 ↩ Apple and Pixar: Steve's Two Jobs, Michael Krant, David S. Jackson, Janice Maloney and Cathy Booth, Time Magazine, 18 Oct 1999 ↩ Steve Jobs: Singing a New Tune, Bill Snyder, Insights by Stanford Business, 29 May 2003 ↩ Steve Jobs: 'There's Sanity Returning', Andy Reinhardt, BusinessWeek, 25 May 1998 ↩ Inside Apple, Adam Lashinsky, 25 Jan 2012 ↩ Companies working on iPad software before the product was for sale testified that 'even after the formal introduction of the iPad, [they] were required to keep it under padlock and key, with the key turned by Apple every night', Developer offers glimpse inside Apple's secrecy efforts, Josh Ong, Apple Insider, 9 Sep 2011 ↩ The Wizard of Pods – Behind the Curtain with Steve Jobs, Mike Evangelist, Writers Block Live, 5 Feb 2006 ↩ Reality Distortion Field, Andy Hertzfeld, Folklore.org, Feb 1981 ↩ Steve Jobs, the Genuine Article, Mike Evangelist, Writers Block Live, 7 Oct 2005 ↩ Steve Jobs, 1955 - 2011, Steven Levy, Wired, 5 Oct 2011 ↩ Steve Jobs at 44, Michael Krant, Time Magazine, 18 Oct 1999 ↩ Steve Jobs. Myth 2. Steve Jobs co-founded Pixar. Myth 3. The movies were Steve Jobs's vision. Myth 4. Steve Jobs named Pixar. Myth 5. Steve Jobs ran Pixar. Myth 6. Steve Jobs's investment Myth 1. Steve Jobs bought Pixar from Lucasfilm. Myth 2. Steve Jobs co-founded Pixar. Myth 3. The movies were Steve Jobs's vision. Myth 4. Steve Jobs named Pixar. Myth 5. Steve Jobs

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Tim Milliron worked at Pixar for over 13 years and at companies like Google, Twilio, and now Podium. He said Steve Jobs insisted Pixar employees articulate the value of every project in extreme detail. Jobs pushed them to always keep asking the hard "how" and "why" questions for clarity. See more stories on Insider's business page. Early in my career, I worked at Pixar Animation Studios for over 13 years. I started as a technical director and left as the company's director of simulation tools, and I held various key leadership roles related to engineering and product development. For a portion of my tenure, Steve Jobs was still the CEO and already a legend in Silicon Valley. I once had the chance to pitch him on a new technology (one that the studio still uses today) — and the entire process of pitching him became like a graduate-level course in how to think about business like an entrepreneur, no matter your company, role, or title. Pixar was in the middle of one of the greatest hot streaks a film studio has ever seen. Our most recent releases were "Finding Nemo," "The Incredibles," and "Cars." But the technical challenges of these films made it clear it was time to overhaul our 20-year-old animation platform if we wanted to stay at the very top of the industry. Along with four other leaders, I was heading up a team that would go on to develop a new animation platform from the ground up. At virtually any other organization, working under almost any other leader, our project would have been green-lighted with little fuss. We would create a detailed formal proposal, and someone higher up the ladder would sign the dotted line. But that was not the case at Pixar — not with Jobs