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- floort, on 06/26/2008, -9/+119Um. Maybe because Steve Jobs is CEO of Apple AND Pixar? Or is that too obvious?
- tripledjr, on 06/27/2008, -14/+87Difference is Wall-Es gonna be good and not be anymore expensive then other movies.
- LightSpeed4, on 06/27/2008, -21/+61Wrong because Pixar actually makes good stuff.
- SuperSunny, on 06/27/2008, -3/+38Pixar is incredible. I have yet to see a bad production film from them.
- macslut, on 06/27/2008, -0/+31To several posters above:
Steve Jobs is no longer the CEO of Pixar. Pixar is a subdivision of Disney. Jobs is now the largest individual shareholder of Disney and sits on the board. - obsolite, on 06/27/2008, -8/+34"Don’t let it out of the lab until it’s perfect."
Uhh.. my iPhone says otherwise. - gaqua, on 06/27/2008, -3/+21Until Brad Bird shows up at the end of a movie with a "...one more thing..." in a black turtleneck, I'm giving Pixar the win here.
- dn11, on 06/27/2008, -6/+22The article is inaccurate when it says "Nearly everyone in the CG industry as relied on OS X for years"... Linux and Windows has been the standard for high end VFX for years, Pixar switched to all Mac only relatively recently. Most studios still use Linux, OS X is mostly used for running Shake - which not every company even uses - but it says a lot that Apple still makes a Linux version of Shake (at an insanely marked up price).
- YancyFryJr, on 07/13/2008, -3/+18The whole class of first-gen Apple products say otherwise.
Pixar, on the other hand, kick major ass and take good care of their employees, which is commendable. - inactive, on 06/27/2008, -8/+21Funny - Pixar still uses Avid and Maya 64 bit on Winoze....oops dirty little fact.
Ok, here comes the bury squad ! - inactive, on 06/27/2008, -1/+12Remember we're talking about children's movies. My son loved both Cars and FInding Nemo.
- SouthsideIrish, on 06/27/2008, -0/+9Yeah, you are right. He doesn't own Apple, he is just the largest stockholder of Disney, which means that he gets to tell the Board what to do as along as he is making money. So basically, he and his people control Disney.
- soapycub, on 06/27/2008, -3/+12Oh ***** off!
Look, I have nothing against Apple. In fact, I'm getting my first MBP in a couple of weeks, but it's ***** like this that makes me want to hide the fact that I'm getting one even more.
Pixar are who they are because of wonderful and timeless storytelling. It's ignorant to say they hold things back until they're perfect; anyone who is even remotely associated with any form of creative arts will tell you that there's no such thing. Pixar originally set to make Toy Story 2 a direct to video. They had almost finished it when they realised they didn't want to go down the path of mediocrity. So they scrapped it and made it into the Toy Story 2 we know today. Nothing they do is perfect, but they make damn sure it's brilliant.
A more accurate comparison would be Apple and Dreamworks -- Halo effect and pop culture.
Bury me fanboys, I don't care. Just realise that Apple zealots like you are why people stay away. - buggu, on 06/27/2008, -2/+10Linux is mostly used in render farms, in terms of animation, Macs are more prevalent in the design and production stages.
- dn11, on 06/27/2008, -5/+12Jonathan Ive did some design work on Wall-E
http://gizmodo.com/389772/wall+e-movie-is-jonathan ... - thenewkasanova, on 06/27/2008, -4/+11Okay, you can hate Apple all you want, but to pretend that people don't care about Apple products is ludicrous.
- damonic, on 06/27/2008, -2/+8No. He sold Pixar to Disney.
- MavRevMatt, on 06/27/2008, -6/+12Cars?
It wasn't horrible no, it beats the ***** out of almost any other Disney movie, but it was probably the worst Pixar's released. At least in my opinion. - inactive, on 06/27/2008, -2/+8Actually Pixar still uses AVID rather than other video editing.
And they still use alot of the newer 64bit apps with linux and (OMFG) windows which no longer are available for OSX.
Sorry. - bbatsell, on 06/27/2008, -0/+5He's not quite the CEO of Pixar. There hasn't been a CEO since it was acquired by Disney. Jobs obviously still has some measure of control through his plurality ownership of Disney and membership on the Board of Directors.
I would argue that Pixar's direction comes more from John Lasseter, a founding member of Pixar, the Chief Creative Officer, who has full greenlight control over every Pixar project. Determining whether Lasseter at Pixar was influenced by Jobs, Jobs at Apple post-'97 was influenced by Lasseter, or neither of the above, remains a largely academic and unanswerable question. - MavRevMatt, on 06/27/2008, -0/+5That would mean Microsoft owns Apple.
I think that would make the internets asplode. - pandikukka, on 06/27/2008, -6/+11So, Disney is the 'Microsoft' of hollywood? hmmm..
- dn11, on 06/27/2008, -0/+4doesn't surprise me at all. they made some grand announcement at some point that they were only using apple going forward, but I had no reason to believe them.
- macslut, on 06/27/2008, -1/+5Try PRMan (PhotoRealistic RenderMan).
Renderman for Maya isn't even fully developed yet.
PRMan was developed by Pixar...which btw started out as a hardware company, bought by Jobs from Lucas when Lucas needed cash (divorce issues). - bbatsell, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3Okay. Did you like it?
- celkin, on 06/27/2008, -2/+5And to think, 1-2 years ago, you would've been buried into oblivion for what you just implied about Apple.
- inactive, on 06/27/2008, -6/+9I never saw it comin' Steve Jobs and Pixar... hmmmm. The Apple of hollywood.
- jamesfaction, on 06/27/2008, -1/+4Disney owns Pixar in entirety... so that's not quite right. :)
- inactive, on 06/27/2008, -2/+5Sorry I meant other cad programs with Maya plug-ins for windows 64bit.
Fact is pixar uses whatever they can to get the job done and still uses mostly Linux as it's still the fastest tool for the job. (Jobs?) - KingGorilla, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3Your son is a hack critic!
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -2/+5You just failed your IQ test. Back of the room...NOW!
- gryphon50, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3Cars was still good, even if it wasn't quite as good as Finding Nemo...
- Asianwaste, on 06/27/2008, -1/+4Since when is Pixar a second stringer in their industry?
- naiku, on 06/27/2008, -1/+4disney/pixar's stock didn't drop 5.1% today. apple did. =(
- SSCrow, on 06/27/2008, -1/+4"Nearly everyone in the CGI industry has relied on Mac's OS for years,"
I would disagree, its really dominated by PCs and the people doing Sound, and maybe composting use Macs. - grey580, on 06/27/2008, -1/+4I think that the reason why the movies are so good is that they actually well written stories. And not the normal crap that hollywood spews out.
Go figure. - celkin, on 06/27/2008, -0/+3Congratulations.
- Zippo, on 06/27/2008, -2/+4A Bug's Life was pretty meh, but I even found Cars pretty entertaining. Everything else Pixar has put out has been awesome.
The don't put out movies all that often - they spend their time focusing on one project and making it great. Therefore each movie gets a lot of much-needed time and devotion. - buggu, on 06/27/2008, -13/+15Apple's products have nowhere the perfectionism Pixar puts in its products. The article gushes over the two a bit too much, but the only similarity in both end products is attention to detail and polished presentation. Pixar is an excellent animation studio, one might say unparalled in its field within American animation. Apple's design brilliance ends at the exterior of the product. Their products are flawed, Apple scales back features purposely to sell them later or introduce into a later product, and their competitors often offer better products in their fields (this is especially true for MP3 players).
- omnis, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2Unless you work for Apple, on what grounds are you going to differ?
- grey580, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2I thought cars was pretty good. Ask any 5 year old if he liked it.
- TheSnuffster, on 06/27/2008, -0/+2Personally I use a compost heap instead of a mac, but that's just me.
- Pinkertinkle, on 06/27/2008, -1/+3And steve jobs owns more of disney than anyone
- speakafreaka, on 06/27/2008, -1/+3its due to the "perceived" external perfection and a fanactial userbase that denies any problems exist
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -1/+3CARS was better when it was titled DOC HOLLYWOOD. Ahem...
- Peck3277, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1Read that as Disney pwns Pixar.....
Had to change from bury to digg once I copped it. - pjdk28, on 06/27/2008, -3/+4couldnt agree with you more
- YancyFryJr, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1No, I wasn't saying that. Sorry if that's what it sounded like. All I was saying is that Pixar is consistently up there with Google on "Top Places To Work" lists. No offense.
- omnis, on 06/27/2008, -0/+1There should be no comparison what-so-ever. Pixar is 100% above and beyond the rest when it comes to their breathtaking imagery, superb storytelling, and all around quality. Apple is good, but talked up much more than they should be. They've failed before. Pixar never has yet.
- heretrix, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1Why the ***** can't Pixar be the Pixar of Hollywood? Why in the hell does everything have to be compared to another in order to have some ***** relevance?
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