Inside the studio computer animation

Studio Pixar - studio, working in the genre of computer animation and is located in California. It was founded in 1979 by George Lucas after the success of his "Star Wars" Let us briefly look at it.




20 thousand square meters, named in honor of Jobs is not due to the purchase of Apple Inc. animation studio in 1986; The fact that the founder of the company are very sensitive to this space and almost personally chose each brick to the building. Chief designer of the campus Craig Payne likes to describe the long history of the choice of materials for the construction of steel, on the mandate of Jobs, especially oxidized in the parking lot at the building to give it a more "romantic" view and brick facade chose from 10 different shades.



Server Room



Bar breakfast cereal



Sculpture Luxo Jr.



After his death, it changes some things: for example, at the entrance there was a huge copy of the lamp Luxo Jr. - The character's first animated Pixar film and the directorial debut of John Lasseter in 1986. Payne says that Jobs would never have been allowed to put something like this: he was always skeptical attitude to this kind of irony and tried to avoid unnecessary infantilism. Lamps and rubber ball (the height of a few meters) Lasseter gave the Australian company that created the props for the show Pixar in 2006. Also features mascot from Luxo Jr. there are practical problem - in the evenings it illuminates the entrance to the main building.

Campus







Tia Kretter





Browse art of characters Up!



OSETITELI STEVE JOBS BUILDING IMMEDIATELY AFTER ENTRY fall into the atrium - a huge bunk room which is decorated each year in a new way. 2013th to Pixar - year "Monsters University", so that employees meet Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan, as well as all ever received by the company "Oscar", "Golden Globe" award and "Annie." Atrium is so great that one day there were aerial acrobats of Cirque du Soleil - this world has learned from Twitter Lee Unkricha, director "Nemo" and "Toy Story" that their perceptions of what is happening formulated like this: "Jobs in Pixar - it just a circus some ».



A typical day Pete Doktera



Record soundtrack Up!



Drawing lesson at the University of Pixar



Lesson programming Quickstart University Pixar



Lee Unkrich at work



The ground floor also is a room, which in English is best defines cereal bar, which can be translated into Russian except as a cereal bar for breakfast. About this corner of the studio even I made a separate cartoon - there are over a hundred different varieties of granola, cereal flakes and other cereal from Nestle and Captain Crunch up Cheerios and Corn Pops. Immediately there are other mandatory for American breakfast foods: peanut butter, jam, milk and fruit.

A typical day Lee Unkricha



Opposite the bar - MAIN RESTAURANT to campus with a wood burning stove for a vegan pizza, a burrito bar and a special area of ​​healthy drinks. Cafe specially located on the ground floor - to attract people from different parts of the building in the Atrium. As planned Jobs, here should cross the paths of all employees of the studio, and even the toilets are in a building in one place, it is on the ground floor.



On the second floor of the building is a gallery PICTURES multiplier non-studio films, and just study. On the question of decorating your workspace animators are serious: for example, one of them built in his studio tropical bar with coconut and palm trees, and the other organized himself a second tier of the bed. According to the stories Payne, Jobs hated these fruits of self-realization of the employees, but to him and did not occur to deny anything - he always relied on the fact that everyone should have the choice.

Atrium



Server Room



Alex Kupershmidt the work



Bobby Podesta and Andrew Gordon



Process Storyboards



Source: www.pixar.com

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