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

[Brian Reynolds <reynolds@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

I thought the Pixar machine was Reyes.  It was an acronym.  It started
something like Renders Every[thing|where].  Maybe that was the
software that predated Render Man.  My memory isn't as good as it used
to be.

John Lassiter joined Pixar after leaving Disney.  Like Tim Burton he
wasn't allowed to do what he wanted while at Disney.  Given the
timeline on Pixar's webpage I'm guessing it had to be before Jobs
purchased the company in 1986.  Luxo Jr. got an Oscar nomination that
year and it was a Lassiter short.

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