Essays Tagged: "Pixar"

Children's movies classifications

ad and ultimately rip them off. But there are thousands of little punters being mugged right now by Pixar, the creator of ?Finding Nemo?. It was another ?Shrek?, with something for all the family. Exc ...

(3 pages) 70 2 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Do you feel that Computer generated imagery (CGI) should be the way forward for the film industry? Base your argument on at least two theoretical frameworks.

Starting with Pixar's Toy Story in 1995, computer based 3D animation has met with both critical and commercial suc ... 30 million$358 millionToy Story 21999$90 million$486 millionMonsters inc2001$115 million$523 millionPixar 3D CGI animated Features since 1995TITLEDATEBUDGETWORLDWIDE BOX OFFICEThe Hunchback of NotreDa ...

(13 pages) 83 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Comparing and contrasting the use of digital technology in 'The Matrix' and 'Toy Story'

ngs of traditional movies and animation. Toy Story was the product of a Disney owned company called Pixar. Who are well on their way to becoming as famous as the former by releasing a string of comput ... h the audience, Toy Story making $191,780,865 at the box office, with a budget of just $30,000,000. Pixar had found a place between cartoons and reality and the viewers loved it. In a poll of 4000 car ...

(8 pages) 101 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Pixar's use of Information Technology

er technologies to create digital animation. The major players producing digital animation, such as Pixar, Lucasfilm, and Walt Disney Features Animation, have been in heated competition to innovate an ... y, allowing firms to highly differentiation themselves from their competitors. Since the release of Pixar's RenderMan® software 15 years ago, 11 of the films that won the Oscar for Best Visual Eff ...

(14 pages) 310 1 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Comparison And Contrast Essay: Benefits of Animation vs. Live Acting

ake up the science fiction/ fantasy genre. Regular computer animation, in the hands of a giant like Pixar, is a relatively new but very successful field.As much as I enjoy watching different types of ...

(4 pages) 101 1 4.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Animation and the history of computer animation

n. Therefore degrading to some degree the high standard set by such animation teams created by like Pixar and Disney. As a result of advancement in technology, the creation process has become a lot si ...

(5 pages) 151 0 4.0 Aug/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

Why did the Disney Brand devaluate over years?

such as Toy Story 1,2, A bug's life and Finding Nemo - all produced with a 50-50 relationship with Pixar. Disney takes 60% of the profits and retains ownership and sequel rights! Eisner has expressed ... sequel rights! Eisner has expressed hope of continuing the relationship but sadly the fact is that Pixar is talking with other studios about a distribution agreement that would allow it to own its ow ...

(5 pages) 100 0 2.5 Oct/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Pharmecutical Companies: Are they overcharging?

percent of profit is much lower. For example Microsoft's profit as a percent in 2002 was 36.6 and Pixar's was about 44%. The leader in the pharmaceutical industry on percent net profit was Pfizer w ...

(2 pages) 81 2 4.0 Mar/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

The Hero's Journey related to Pixar's "Finding Nemo"

The motion picture we are applying or using is Pixar's "Finding Nemo". Our hero would be Marlin, the timid clownfish who lives safe and secluded in ...

(7 pages) 40 0 0.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Disney's Core Strengths

e of Disney. Disney will either find a way to out run the competitors or they buy them. For example Pixar Entertainment opened in 1986 with their first featured film, Toy Story. As the success of Pixa ... their first featured film, Toy Story. As the success of Pixar grew, Disney quickly became aware of Pixar's talents. So in 2006 Disney purchased Pixar Entertainment. Today the popular Nemo fish can be ...

(4 pages) 313 0 5.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Financial Management

st return within an 18 month time span.Part BMerger Acquisitions (Part C)The $7.4 billion merger of Pixar with Disney was sound and mutually beneficial solution for both companies.The Walt Disney Comp ... nd entertainment corporations in the world with revenues of $31.9 billion in 2005 (Wikipedia, 2006).Pixar Animation Studios is an award-winning computer generated imagery (CGI) animation which produce ...

(3 pages) 334 0 3.0 Feb/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Film review on "Toy Story" showing the journeys involved

Award – Toy Story!Toy Story is the groundbreaking 1995 motion picture developed by Disney and Pixar and directed by John Lasseter. Combined with visual wizardry, uproarious laughs and the cooles ...

(4 pages) 18 0 4.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Ethics in the Workplace - Monster-Sized Similarities

the North American mainstream (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.La Monica, P. R. (2006). Disney buys Pixar. News. Retrieved October 19, 2006, from http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/24/news/companies/disney_ ...

(4 pages) 40 0 4.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management

A Cultural studies analysis of popular culture production through animated Movies. A review of Wall E and Robots

s; ROBOTS was produced by Blue Sky Studios for 20th century Fox, while WALL E which was produced by Pixar animation studios, who were bought by Walt Disney Pictures in 2006 through an all stock transa ... t by Walt Disney Pictures in 2006 through an all stock transaction worth 7.4 billion dollars. //www.pixar.com/ (Wikipedia.org) .In my research I was amazed by the extent global media corporations woul ...

(11 pages) 89 0 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Actors

Marketing Research Pixar

Marketing Research is imperative to Disney Pixar's success. Marketing research is the process in which managers perform to gather information e ... of the measured characteristic they possess," (2007). Therefore, this paper will review how Disney Pixar employs secondary market research, and effective scaling processes for their organization.Seco ... ry market research, and effective scaling processes for their organization.Secondary Market ResearchPixar, a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney, has changed the way animated movies are made. Pixar has ...

(6 pages) 20 0 0.0 Feb/2010

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing

Walt Disney Company, Burbank California

Disney is remaining stable and not increasing there is no need of another strategic acquisition as Pixar has proved to be more than a helpful acquisition. The Disney parks and resorts could continue ... e channels and many more. It was a very wise decision for Disney to realize that they needed to buy Pixar as it has immensely helped in creating character that the public loves, hence making it easy f ...

(4 pages) 2 0 0.0 Oct/2013

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Technology Advancing In Society

gy is intimidating. Many believe we will follow a similar fate as the fictional society of Earth in Pixar's film Wall-E, in which humans appear to be reduced to immobile inhabitants--confined to hover ...

(2 pages) 1 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Technology

Classic Movies

assic film from modern filmmaking. It shows these things and deserves the recognition. It is one of Pixar's iconic films. It has the parts that others films have that make them great, and it is a clas ...

(4 pages) 1 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study

Top10 Human Resource Sources

emely successful in his field, being one of the co-founders of Apple, and starting up Walt Disney's Pixar studios .Jobs in this video discussed how he motivated himself every morning, by asking himsel ...

(13 pages) 2 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Human Resource Management