SEATTLE — Long before toys had a story and bugs got a life, Pixar Animation Studios Inc. was a software company. It started in the 1970s with a team of programmers who wanted to transform mountains of ...

The team behind Toy Story reflect on 20 years of Woody and Buzz and the tech that brought them to life. On stage, clips, animation tests, character movement analysis, original drawings, and an ...

Pixar may be known for its eye-popping animation and airtight storytelling these days, but in 1988 it was a struggling high-end computer manufacturer with a demo video aimed at boring government ...

General Motors came within one week of buying Pixar in 1985, and would have subsumed the then-fledgling computer company to use its technology to help aid car designs. That surprising almost-was ...

Pixar turned thirty years old today, marking the animation studio's milestone ahead of their seventeenth film, premiering later this year. Now a part of Disney, Pixar was born out of Lucasfilm's ...

Ed Catmull, the Pixar Animation Studios co-founder who helped pioneer the computer-animation industry and led Walt Disney Co.’s animation business to its contemporary renaissance, is retiring. Catmull ...

Pixar Animation Studios' collection of movie hits is impressive -- among them, "Toy Story," "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles." In addition to earning billions of dollars, the studio's films have ...