Disney Buys Pixar

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday January 21, 2006 @11:22PM from the not-just-for-rumor-mills-anymore dept.

BlueDjinn writes to tell us that it appears a great deal of speculation over Disney's buyout of Pixar Animation Studios is in fact true. From the article: "[Pixar] is set to meet tomorrow to approve the company's $7bn (£3.9bn) takeover by Disney. The all-share deal will make Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, around $3.5bn and the single largest shareholder in Disney. Jobs created Pixar in 1986 when he paid $10m for the computer animations division of Lucasfilm, owned by Star Wars creator George Lucas."

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Ed Catmull is a part of the deal... by Chief+Typist · 2006-01-22 05:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

While I agree that John Lasseter is an important part of the deal, he's only one part of the "Pixar Trinity".

A lot of the technical innovations behind Pixar's success are due to the efforts of Ed Catmull. Jobs made the deals, Lasseter made the stories, and Catmull made it work.

Guys like him will allow Disney to stay ahead of the competition.

-ch