Re: [photo-3d] Cool collecting 3-D stuff

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Lee Moore wrote:
> >>>Peter Davis said:
>  > Yes, but Pixar was a Lucasfilm spin-off, wasn't it?  They originally set 
>  > out to market their own high-performance image processing hardware, but 
>  > producing animation seems to have become the mainstream.
> 
> This is exactly what happened.  ILM (Industrial Light and Magic) was
> Lucas' special effects team in Marin Co., California.  Pixar was the
> high speed rendering system spin-out.  I believe Droid-works was the
> sound processing spin-out.
> 

Thanks for reminding me.  Pixar did come from Lucas, but Steven Jobs
(Apple, Next) bought the company from Lucas.  I think the idea at one
point had been for Pixar to be Lucas' CGI unit the way Skywalker
Studios became their sound studio.  I don't know that Pixar was ever a
separate entity before Jobs bought them.

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