Pixar
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- Concept Art … a 3 minute short based on this [generated] script in the style of Pixar synced to this [generated] audio") If all that happens, would Chadeisson's work disappear …
- Three Things … it’s decided is so important it’s going to build it itself. Pixar and Renderman, and in general the CGI/VFX’s preoccupation with tooling and production …
- What's the EGOT for Technology and Arts? … If you’ve read this newsletter before, then you may be unsurprised to see me jump out and tout Pixar as the One True Best Successful Example of …
- They Write Software That Kills People, Don't They? … From what I’ve heard, Pixar is an example of an organization that has invested in internal tooling. One reason for that might be that they had to …
- Jeremy Bearimy … Johnson very politely reminded me that Disney Animation, not Pixar , were responsible for the Planes series of movies. I’ve corrected the web-published episode. Gosh this 737 …
- You're The Mayor of Terminal B Airside at SMF Airport! … I honestly don’t know how to end this other than some sort of lame gesture toward Pixar’s Ratatouille, pointing out that a good cook can come …
- Interesting Times … give”, and following the advice and exhortation of Ed Catmull in his book [Pixar], I decided to experiment with being bluntly candid. In the end, the State decided …
- Bureaucracy Is An Algorithm; Vapourware; No New Ideas … what does the non-silo'd organisation look like? Do any of you work at one? Pixar isn't it. There are arguments that Valve, with their wheel …
- Snow Crashing (10); How The Web Works Now … clearer*? Does it mean that Juanita's a combined modeler/rigger in the Pixar tradition, someone who can both put together a high-polygon avatar for Da5id, but …
- After All; 2014 (7) … I could try, but in the end I wouldn't be able to top this quote from Anton Ego in Pixar's Ratatouille: "In many ways, the work …
- Relentless; Tech And Media, Not Or; 2014 … two: Warby Parker is as much a glasses company *and* a tech company. Pixar is a storytelling company that couldn't survive without its technological know-how *and …
- The Material (5) - What It Wants; Transmedia Is Dead! … Now, that might easily be because the whole point of a Disney partnership is to get access to a kind of Brain Trust at Pixar or Disney Animation …
- Clarity; The Customer … For Pixar, that means knowing, right from the get-go for Ed Catmull, that he wanted to make computer-animated movies. For my former employer, that means knowing …
- What You Want; Messiahs; The List … On Pixar: Creativity, Inc by Ed Catmull The Pixar Touch by David A. Price Disneywar by James B. Stewart On startups and management: Founders at Work by Jessica …
- This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots … Anyone who's followed this newsletter for a while, or knows me well enough, knows that I'm a stupendous Pixar fan - not just because of the movies …
- The Difficulty; Listless Interestingness … For Pixar, Apple and Wieden+Kennedy, they're all founded by idealistic yet capitalistic hippies. They share, roughly, the same notion that money is important, because it's …
- Kill Hollywood; Not That Worried; Healthbook; Webring! … Sure, the RFS talks about services and backend infrastructure and so on, but if you ask me, you'd do no wrong looking at a place like Pixar …
- Snow Crashing 3; Video is a Content-Type; Blame Your Tools … I keep coming back to Pixar, and I don't mean to, but it's just because they're so frustratingly good. They're a storytelling organisation that …
- When You're Part Of A Team; The Dabbler … what kind of people are they? The mythology around Pixar is fantastic, and there's a book about Pixar which looks like it's going to soon become …
- Everything In Silos, Forever and Ever, Amen … You see this in companies like Pixar, where internal software engineering for processes like pre-production and story design are elevated and, well, important. There's a little …