Pixar

Interactive drama is on the lunatic fringe

by justingibbs on November 10, 2009

Reading The Pixar Touch I found it consoling how there was a time when computer animation was considered the lunatic fringe. The term showed up in a quote about Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios. “Computer animation was sort of on the lunatic fringe at that time,” said Fred Parke, a fellow Ph. D. student in [...]

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Why not task Pixar with inventing real-time story?

by justingibbs on October 27, 2009

Walt Disney’s CEO Bob Iger thinks the Hollywood model is broken and in need of quick change. “The business model that underpins the movie business is changing,” Mr Iger told the Financial Times “If we don’t adapt to the change there won’t be a business – that’s my exhortation to my team.” So if the [...]

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