Reddit reviews The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company

Yes, when Pixar was still the Graphics Group, it was part of Lucasfilm, owned by George Lucas. George Lucas did not create Pixar by any stretch of the imagination. At the time, Pixar was a group of computer nerds working out of a garage at NYIT, including Ed Catmull.

Read a book.

Preferably this one.

A note on Waking Sleeping Beauty- as a student of animation, I've seen the documentary many times and read a few histories on the subject.

My complaint, if it can be called that, is that I actually don't completely agree with the 'arc' of the documentary (casting Don Bluth and Katzenberg and Eisner and Peter Schneider as the 'villains', portraying the animators as the unfortunate victims of company culture).

I know that some documentaries are histories and some are opinions and some are Michael Moore, but I just got the feeling that Waking Sleeping Beauty calls itself a history documentary, but it is made from the automatically subjective views of the people in it.

That being said, I'm always very very impressed with the quality of the archival footage.

For a separate writing on the subject, The Pixar Touch includes Eisner's Disney and the Bluth and Katzenberg split within its Pixar history.

I would love this (if you click the "new" options, there's a few cheaper options), there was a documentary about pixar yesteday and would love to know more about their behind the scenes work! No idea, maybe there is a secret uprising of the British Empire ;) x