Build Software Like Pixar Makes Movies
summary
History and practices of Pixar become concrete: Luxo Jr. earns awards and shorts serve as yearly R&D, about three to four hundred Pixar Image Computers get built, RenderMan powers 27 of the last 30 big‑VFX films, and a CAPS production system enables the Little Mermaid sequence. Storyboards plus rough voice dailies expose failures early, the brain trust fixes Toy Story in weeks, compositors and shaders replace hand painting, and cultural moves like Pixar University and intentional spaces force cross‑pollination.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:42What is Pixar
- 4:42History of Pixar
- 9:59Industrial Light Magic
- 12:12Pixar Image Computer
- 14:25John Lasseter
- 18:49George Lucas
- 20:22Deming
- 23:02Pixar
- 28:03The Brain Trust
- 30:39Pixar IPO
- 32:25People in Candor
- 35:27Brain Trust
- 38:29Collaboration
- 42:17Renderer
- 44:31User Research
- 47:57The Main Building
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