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

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:22 AM 3/31/00, you wrote:
>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.

It was a separate entity, somewhere back in the late 80's.  They were 
marketing a Pixar Image Processing Computer.  I believe the animation unit 
basically was creating demos to show off the hardware.  Ed Catmull, Alvy 
Ray Smith, and a lot of the other Lucasfilm gurus were on hand.  I'm not 
sure if John Lassiter joined then or later, but he certainly steered them 
towards doing commercial animation.

-pd


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