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3.89 AVERAGE
I normally wouldn't have picked this up but it was one of 12 books recommended by the WSJ at the end of 2008 so I gave it a try. It's highly readable and very interesting. The complications of getting a new idea such as computer-animation from idea to market are incredible. The book covers a nice balance of both the people issues and the technical issues. And boy, you have to have somebody with really deep pockets (i.e. Steve Jobs) to get anything going.
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Cool overview of Pixar! I really loved all the info on the creative process and the history of computer animation, wish it went even deeper. Wasn’t as interested in the business stuff as thats not my area of interest, but was still cool to learn about. Would love to read an updated version that goes past 2008 as well!
This is an engaging and fun look at the founding and history of Pixar. It gets a little dense when discussing the different technology Pixar pioneered but Price never veers too deeply into it to make it entirely inaccessible. As much as a Disney buff as I am, knowing all the details of Disney's history, it was fun to finally know Pixar's history too! now I just need a sequel since so much as happened with the company since this book was published.
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Great book about the history of Pixar — from the earliest days before Lucasfilm, up through the Disney acquisition in 2006.
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This book describes the history of Pixar from its founders struggles to the power plays between Corporations up until Disney bought the company. The writer is bold and does not refrain from having an opinion on the situations he brings to the fore. Interesting read from a historical point of view especially since the technology breakthroughs that made Pixar are described in detail.
The Pixar Touch read more like a novel than it did a non-fiction book! Reading non fiction can sometimes be very tedious no matter how much you might like the subject. I was happily surprised that it was not written as 300 pages of sheerly academic information but instead read more like a set of stories. The book included enough technical detail that I learned more than I ever thought I would about computer animation and movie production, but not to much to be overwhelming to a reader.
Hearing the stories of the people who put the company together was by far the most interesting part of the book. I never even knew how much of a hand Steve Jobs had in Pixar and it's creation. One member of the Pixar company I thought should have been given more time in the book is John Lasseter. Thought he was not as involved with the business portion of the company, without his creative ideas the company would have gone nowhere.
This book would be a good read for anyone who is interested in Pixar and their link to Disney, but also for those that might just be interested in animation and computer animation history.
After reading The Pixar Touch, I am definitely interested in reading more about Pixar, Disney, and especially John Lasseter.
Hearing the stories of the people who put the company together was by far the most interesting part of the book. I never even knew how much of a hand Steve Jobs had in Pixar and it's creation. One member of the Pixar company I thought should have been given more time in the book is John Lasseter. Thought he was not as involved with the business portion of the company, without his creative ideas the company would have gone nowhere.
This book would be a good read for anyone who is interested in Pixar and their link to Disney, but also for those that might just be interested in animation and computer animation history.
After reading The Pixar Touch, I am definitely interested in reading more about Pixar, Disney, and especially John Lasseter.
This is a very engaging, quick read about Pixar and the determination and effort it took to get computer animated movies going. I really enjoyed the history of Pixar and would recommend this book to anyone.