The Story of PIXAR
Just Keep Swimming
Pixar's Success
As young boys, Ed Ctamull and John Lasseter looked up to Walt Disney and aspired to be Disney animators. John Lasseter once said, "Everything I do in my life is because of Walt Disney and how he entertained me as a child and as a young adult growing up."
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Walt Disney created an iconic world of flying elephants and heoric dwarfs, that all began with a talking mouse named Mickey.
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John Lasseter knew that, like himself, Walt Disney would have loved 3D animation. John Lasseter and Ed Catmull both felt an obligation to Walt Disney, the man who inspired their careers in animation in the first place, to keep the Walt Disney Studios going. It was Ed Catmull and John Lasseter who imported the successful, creative approaches they developed at Pixar into Disney, making it something Walt Disney would be proud of again. After years of defeat, Disney's latest blockbuster hit, Frozen, has become the highest-grossing animated feature film of all time, surpassing Pixar's crown jewel, Toy Story 3, and is concrete proof of Pixar's cultural victory of saving Disney.
One can almost hear the Pixar animators' exclaiming "I'm going to Disney World" as the confetti falls around them. Disney's resurgence is the ultimate end of the childhood dreams of the group of animators known as Pixar.
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