Pixar Perfect

I just wanted to draw your attention to this article here about Pixar – it’s an interview with Andrew Dayton, a technical director at Pixar.

Been doing some stuff for my brother recently, some very simple work in Maya producing a title/logo sting for a film he’s working on. Something I enjoy doing, but not something I do very often, and it does kind of come down to forcing things to get a halfway decent effect (that would be sneered at by anyone who did this kind of thing properly, anyway).

So much knowledge, so small a brain that I have trying to understand it all.

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The Success of Pixar

I found this as part of an interview that Victor Navone did for some blog – a decent interview but one answer caught my eye. I thought it neatly summed up why Pixar is so successful, and why their films have always done so well.

This answer here: The company is run by creative people – John Lasseter and Ed Catmull – and not by business executives. They know how to make movies and how to support artists, and they’re not willing to release mediocre films just for money. We have a very collaborative culture, a spirit of openness and communication between artists and departments. There’s not as much politics and manoeuvring as you will find in a typical Hollywood studio.

A lot of different people have commented on how successful Pixar is, and why. I think Navone nailed it pretty well.