Pixar

Pixar (), doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of the Disney Entertainment segment of the Walt Disney Company. It is one of Disney's three feature animation studios, alongside Walt Disney Animation Studios and 20th Century Animation. The studio started in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division. It was known as the Graphics Group before its spin-off as a corporation in 1986, with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. The studio's mascot is Luxo Jr., a desk lamp from the studio's 1986 short film of the same name. Disney announced its acquisition of Pixar in January 2006, and completed it in May 2006. Pixar is best known for its feature films, technologically powered by its RenderMan software. RenderMan began as Pixar's implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan Interface Specification (RISpec) image-rendering API, which came out in 1988; support for RISpec was dropped in 2016. RenderMan became fully path-traced and physically based (PBR). In addition to producing short films, Pixar has produced 31 feature films, beginning with Toy Story (1995), which is also the first fully computer-animated feature film; its most recent film is Toy Story 5 (2026). As of July 2023, its feature films have earned over $17 billion at the worldwide box office with an average gross of $589 million per film. Toy Story 3 (2010), Finding Dory (2016), Incredibles 2 (2018), Toy Story 4 (2019), Inside Out 2 (2024) and Toy Story 5 (2026) all grossed over $1 billion and are among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time. Moreover, 13 of Pixar's films are in the 50 highest-grossing animated films of all time. As of...