Pixar Finally Offers Animated Shorts on Pixar.com

NicerGuy writes "Today I was bored and decided to check out pixar.com. I hadn't been there in a long time, but was pleasantly surprised to find that they have finally made all(?) of their animated shorts available for download. The films, which are in QuickTime format, include my favorites: Geri's Game and Luxo Jr."

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Pixar Story

[Spootnik]

See, once upon a time George Lucas had this little toy of a company that produced computer animation, but he unloaded it in order to focus on more important things like "Howard the Duck". The company, called Pixar, did things like produce commercials and trade show tidbits and the like, but also started working on original animated shorts. One of these, called "Tin Toy", got the attention of the huge entertainment conglomerate known as "Disney", who knew that the filmgoing public would eventually tire of such classics as "The Black Cauldron" and "The Rescuers Down Under", seeing as how (unlike most film styles) traditional cel animation had not really evolved or improved significantly over its history. Disney made a deal to distribute Pixar's films for a share of the profits. The first of these films, "Toy Story", was a relatively unexpected success and made a lot of money for Disney. After this, Pixar insisted on renegotiating the deal to get more $$$$ for their efforts and to get equal billing in all advertising materials. Eventually, look for Pixar to distribute their own films, much the way Disney took over from RKO when they wanted more control and $$$$, and for Disney to produce their own computer-animated films.

That's a step...

[George Walker Bush]

Now if they would only open-source/GPL RenderMan, I'd be a very happy man!