The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company [FIRST EDITION]

Price, David A.

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2008

Beschreibung

Fine condition silver gray textured boards with red spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Book(s) by David A. Price; Preliminary Page Quotes; Epilogue: Appendix 1: Pixar Academy Awards and Nominations; Appendix 2: Pixar Filmography; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with a section of eight pages of color photographic plates and nineteen black-and-white photographs interspersed throughout the volume. A small pencil eraser size remainder mark at lower page edge (see photogographs). "[A] history of an entertainment juggernaut that is also the history of computer animation. . A heck of a yarn, full of vivid characters, reversals of fortune, and stubborn determination: Pixar should make a movie out of it." - Kirkus Reviews (starred). "Quite a story, and David Price has got it right, its details and the players. This is the definitive history of Pixar." -- Alvy Ray Simth, co-founder of Pixar. "The roller-coaster rags-to-riches story behind the phenomenal success of Pixar Animation Studios: the first in-depth look at the company that forever changed the film industry and the "fraternity of geeks" who shaped it. The Pixar Touch is a story of technical innovation that revolutionized animation, transforming handdrawn cel animation to computer-generated 3-D graphics. It's a triumphant business story of a company that began with a dream, remained true to the ideals of its founders -- anti-bureaucratic and artist driven -- and endped up a multibillion-dollar success. We meet Pixar's technical genius and founding CEO, Ed Catmull, who dreamed of becoming an animator, inspired by Disney's Peter Pan and Pinnochio, realized he would never be good enough, and instead enrolled in the then new field of computer science at the University of Utah. It was Catmull who founded the computer graphics lab at the New York Institute of Technology and who wound up at Lucasfilm during the first Star Wars trilogy, running the computer graphics department, and found a patron in Steve Jobs, just ousted from Apple Computer, who bought Pixar for five million dollars. Catmull went on to win four Academy Awards for his technical feats and helped to create some of the key computer-generated imagery sofware that animators rely on today. Price also writes about John Lasseter, who catapulted himself from unemployed animator to one of the most powerful figures in American filmmaking; animation was the only thing he ever wanted to do (he was inspired by Disney's The Sword in the Stone), and Price's book shows how Lasseter transformed computer naimation from a novelty into an art form. The author writes as well about Steve Jobs, as volatile a figure as a Shakespearean monarch . Based on interviews with dozens of insiders, The Pixar Touch examines the early wildcat years when computer animation was thought of as the lunatic fringe of the medium. We see the studio at work today; how its writers, directors, and animators make their astonishing, and astonishingly popular, films. The book also delves into Pixar's corporate feuds: between Lasseter and his former champion, Jeffrey Katzenberg (A Bug's Life vs. Antz), and between Jobs and Michael Eisner. And finally it explores Pixar's complex relationship with the Walt Disney Company as it transformed itself from a Disney satellite into the $7.4 billion jewel in the Disney crown." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007028

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company [...

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2008

Einband: Hardcover

Illustrator: Weintraub, Abby (jacket design)

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition