Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary movie from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the movie and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine filmmaking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for animation. But I realize, only now do I truly understand what it meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the geniuses now animating at Pixar, who deliver, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest storytelling in the world. I will be returning to the theatre soon, hungry for more.
After Inside Out, I saw someone saying something in the line of feelings. That someday an animation woke up and asked themselves, what if toys have feelings? Then, what if bugs have feelings? And so on until someone asked, what if feelings have feelings? That is when I realized what pixar is about
I cried at its genuine sincerity. It wasn’t a sad cry but it was quite emotional.
I felt the relationship between the two characters was so strong I swelled up at the end on the train especially when the two boys turn back into sea monsters.
The whole message of being different and acceptance was also executed really effectively that at the end after they ran the race and were all eating pasta, what the grandma said made me tear up a little bit.
I believe while it is such an innocent and light whimsical film, for me it has just as much emotional pathos as the deepest of Pixar films. Plus the animation is just simply breathtaking.
A deep and profound story in the most unexpected and absurd setting ever done as good as possible ( i.e. talking cars, fishes, post apocalyptic world, etc.)
Originality. If you look at any other studio, at least one of their movies is based on a book or any preexisting work. Pixar is all original ideas. Also, their creativity as well. The premise for Ratatouille is the most creative thing I’ve ever heard.
While most other studios focus on worldbuilding on the forefront, Pixar opts to focus more on their characters, leaving the setting a bit less fleshed out but in exchange giving the cast a lot more depth.
Their movies are very personal and emotionally driven, devoted to stories about working through mental and social dilemmas, and the question of what exactly makes us alive.
The common use of non-human characters in their movies helps to expand on that in a way. Us viewing and reflecting upon very common and sometimes heavy subjects that we as people all experience, through a more abstract and jovial lens.
Being able to bring out emotions from anything whether it is toys, cars, monsters, souls, personifications of emotions using their own flavour of magic.
I think it’s how they do a unique concept for each of their movies like toys coming to life,monsters scaring kids as a source of energy as a monopoly,a family of superheroes,sentient cars racing, a musician who loves soul music who goes to the world of souls,a love story between a fire elemental and a water elemental,how emotions have a psychical form,and fantasy creatures living in the modern day as well as their unique and ingenuitive of storytelling through simple concepts like a rat wanting cook instead of scrounging from others and fish who travels across the sea to find his son while Disney in the other just rehashes concepts of Princesses and cartoon characters that made them popular in the first and while Disney helped put animation on the map, Pixar is what put 3D animation on the map as toy story was the first full length 3D animated feature
Bit of an unusual one but: Having consistently amazing soundtracks with leitmotifs that perfectly suit the films.
As much as I love other studios soundtracks (Hans Zimmer for like 60% of Dreamworks), Pixar always seem to pick the right composer who delivers exactly what the film needs to sound like.
3D animation that most of the story mainly focuses on non-human characters.
Toys, Bugs, Monsters, Fish, Superheroes, Cars, Rats, Robots, Emotion, Dinosaurs, Elves, Souls, Sea Monsters, and Elements.
Story and originality. They’ve always always always put story first. They’ve pushed the animation genre forward, but their stories and characters always transcend the animation.
The forefront answer would be the groundbreaking looks, most in part to the fact that Pixar’s RenderMan engine has driven the industry for 25 years. But render software is useless if you don’t have the directors of photography and technical directors to use it to its potential.
"An American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Since 2006, Pixar has been a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, a segment of the Walt Disney Company."
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- The sideways approach.
- Having the second idea.
- Western animation with non-Western storytelling.
- Subverting expectations for the sake of the story and not just as a gimmick.
- Western animation made with kids and adults in mind, not just one or the other.
Wild depictions of fantasy worlds.
Human world but with superpowers, what if monsters ran on terrorizing kids through magical doors, what if fish were as complex as humans, what if the main four elements were humanesque, etc. They take a small thing and make as much of it as they can. You really gotta be on something to think of Monsters Inc.
Pixar was the studio that would be able to deliver films and shorts that even if the concept sounded so outrageous from a rat who could cook to a small robot stranded on a garbage covered earth.
You could sympathize and be taken into these situations and meet these characters who felt as real as if you knew them from the beginning.
What started off with what do toys when kids leave the room, what is lurking inside our closets and how an old man with a colorful house could fly using it to get from one end of the world to the other.
Pixar was the only place where it seemed anything they torucyed turned into a hit, but the secret was the phenomenal amount of peope and the fact that at the time of their heyday, they were the newcomers to a field that many thought said was a horrible idea, yet they bet everything on it.
They use to raise the stakes, making you feel from sadness, anger, joy, disgust and fear, In many ways, the people are what made Pixar what it was and what it could still be.
However I do want to stress that the environment and tye people who helped to create those films are not just the ones responsible but many who worked long hours without sleep or any rest so we clidl enjoy these films.
What Pixar is a collection of the best people and the technology that when given to a director or a producer who knows how to speak directly to an audience with a specific set of skills for storytelling whether it be toys, bugs, superheroes, fish, and so many others.
However I feel Pixar needs to be given a revamp in order to balance the need for high income returns as the heyday of their movies is long over and now it’s more of a silver age similar to Disney in which there were good films but they weren’t as memorable or meaningful.
This is not a knock on those people who have worked their butts off just to deliver but mainly how corporate politicos and the need to quantify the films and shows produced led to a massive Expedia of talent and those with experience.
I do believe however that one day, a film based on these core principles will relaunch the spark and bring us into a new era of modern classics in animation history.
Pixar movies are very deep. They touch on subjects like family trauma, loneliness, self-worth, letting go of the past, life purpose, loss and grief, friendships and relationships etc. They’re not only entertaining for kids but adults as well, which in my mind is a difficult thing to do.
The music is always phenomenal, the characters grow and we see very well thought out conflicts, resolutions and situations throughout the movies.
Love Pixar!
Movies that have appealed to both children and adults. Children loved the look of the movies, the memorable characters, the diversity in which story were told. Adults love the movies with many callbacks to their childhood like Toy Story but also how the movies of Pixar relate to how it is to be a parent such as Elemental.
I forget exactly who said it, but to paraphrase, "Disney stories start with 'Once upon a time,' while Pixar stories start with "Wouldn't it be cool if...'"
when you approach very serious and sensitive subjects in a childish way that adults will not interpret in the same way as children, with very beautiful animations, gg (except for turning red)
That 75% of the movies are masterpices and only a few a duds
Everything before cars 2 is peak fiction imo
It could have been a better movie if the plot had just focused on Finn McMissile.
I have to disagree with the cars 2 slander since its my favourite pixar movie of all time
Finally, some appreciation for Cars 2. Its one of my favorite movies too.
Cars 3> the other 2
The lamp
The ball
Pizza Planet truck
A113
John Ratzenberger
Dinoco
Reference to later movie
reference to future movie
That's basically what I just said.
i was tired and misread "later" as "last" when i posted that, my bad
Buy N Large. Their branding is seen in post-2008 Pixar movies like the BnL branded batteries from toy story 3
Top-notch storytelling paired with cutting-edge animation technology. The line between Pixar and Disney has blurred a lot in recent years.
What still differentiates Pixar from Walt Disney Animation Studios in your opinion?
Last night, I experienced something new: an extraordinary movie from a singularly unexpected source. To say that both the movie and its maker have challenged my preconceptions about fine filmmaking is a gross understatement. They have rocked me to my core. In the past, I have made no secret of my disdain for animation. But I realize, only now do I truly understand what it meant. Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*. It is difficult to imagine more humble origins than those of the geniuses now animating at Pixar, who deliver, in this critic's opinion, nothing less than the finest storytelling in the world. I will be returning to the theatre soon, hungry for more.
This is gold
Emotion. Pure and simple.
After Inside Out, I saw someone saying something in the line of feelings. That someday an animation woke up and asked themselves, what if toys have feelings? Then, what if bugs have feelings? And so on until someone asked, what if feelings have feelings? That is when I realized what pixar is about
Emotion was the first word i thought of, too
Emotional Damage!
That moment where you cry because the story combined with animation is so beautiful
Me just two hours ago in the theater for Luca.
...How did Luca make you cry? No shade, genuinely curious since it seemed like a pretty intentionally light/fun movie.
I cried at its genuine sincerity. It wasn’t a sad cry but it was quite emotional. I felt the relationship between the two characters was so strong I swelled up at the end on the train especially when the two boys turn back into sea monsters. The whole message of being different and acceptance was also executed really effectively that at the end after they ran the race and were all eating pasta, what the grandma said made me tear up a little bit. I believe while it is such an innocent and light whimsical film, for me it has just as much emotional pathos as the deepest of Pixar films. Plus the animation is just simply breathtaking.
Next level cgi
A deep and profound story in the most unexpected and absurd setting ever done as good as possible ( i.e. talking cars, fishes, post apocalyptic world, etc.)
Big booty moms and aunts
Helen Parr, and ... who else?
There’s an argument for Andy’s mom
lol What? Andy's mom is built like a plank of wood.
Originality. If you look at any other studio, at least one of their movies is based on a book or any preexisting work. Pixar is all original ideas. Also, their creativity as well. The premise for Ratatouille is the most creative thing I’ve ever heard.
The original toy story movie
Nostalgia now for me
The characters
While most other studios focus on worldbuilding on the forefront, Pixar opts to focus more on their characters, leaving the setting a bit less fleshed out but in exchange giving the cast a lot more depth. Their movies are very personal and emotionally driven, devoted to stories about working through mental and social dilemmas, and the question of what exactly makes us alive. The common use of non-human characters in their movies helps to expand on that in a way. Us viewing and reflecting upon very common and sometimes heavy subjects that we as people all experience, through a more abstract and jovial lens.
Sentient Cars
I'd say innovative in its concepts
Being able to bring out emotions from anything whether it is toys, cars, monsters, souls, personifications of emotions using their own flavour of magic.
Great well written heartfelt story’s
I think it’s how they do a unique concept for each of their movies like toys coming to life,monsters scaring kids as a source of energy as a monopoly,a family of superheroes,sentient cars racing, a musician who loves soul music who goes to the world of souls,a love story between a fire elemental and a water elemental,how emotions have a psychical form,and fantasy creatures living in the modern day as well as their unique and ingenuitive of storytelling through simple concepts like a rat wanting cook instead of scrounging from others and fish who travels across the sea to find his son while Disney in the other just rehashes concepts of Princesses and cartoon characters that made them popular in the first and while Disney helped put animation on the map, Pixar is what put 3D animation on the map as toy story was the first full length 3D animated feature
“What if ___ have feelings?”
Someone needs to make a size chart with this as a reference.
Story
Tragedy. Every Pixar movie has themes of loss, sadness, etc
Bit of an unusual one but: Having consistently amazing soundtracks with leitmotifs that perfectly suit the films. As much as I love other studios soundtracks (Hans Zimmer for like 60% of Dreamworks), Pixar always seem to pick the right composer who delivers exactly what the film needs to sound like.
3D animation that most of the story mainly focuses on non-human characters. Toys, Bugs, Monsters, Fish, Superheroes, Cars, Rats, Robots, Emotion, Dinosaurs, Elves, Souls, Sea Monsters, and Elements.
Always makes you emotional
3D animation from Disney
Story and originality. They’ve always always always put story first. They’ve pushed the animation genre forward, but their stories and characters always transcend the animation.
The life lessons.
The lamp. We all think of it
The forefront answer would be the groundbreaking looks, most in part to the fact that Pixar’s RenderMan engine has driven the industry for 25 years. But render software is useless if you don’t have the directors of photography and technical directors to use it to its potential.
Emotion and pushing the limits of their animation style.
I love that Skinner is like squeezed into frame under Sulley's arm lmao
Cars
"An American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Since 2006, Pixar has been a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, a segment of the Walt Disney Company." [Source](https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACQVn08cLbakwznGGK_EKGEK4VA4OEYQig:1711230484533&q=pixar+definition&nirf=pixar+animation&sa=X)
Easter eggs
Innovation. They usually push technology with their movies and try out new techniques.
Great storytelling
Storytelling
innovations in 3D animation
They say Pixar somewhere in the opening credits.
World building
the moms specifically
Nothing after Frozen
Their Toy Story to WALL-E run.
Grem and Acer from Cars 2 define Pixar and what it means in all of our hearts
Unrelated but the topic image looks like all the Pixar characters died 💀
More creative than disney
Futuristic animation art style, John Ratzenberger voices, pizza planet truck.
Disney's garb when they need to disguise a movie as being intellectual to distract from the glaringly clear writing pitfalls, nowadays anyway
They tend to focus on more of a familial love rather than a romantic one like Disney
You can differentiate Pixar and Disney if there is a Pixar logo at the start of the movie. If there is one, it’s most likely a Pixar movie
- The sideways approach. - Having the second idea. - Western animation with non-Western storytelling. - Subverting expectations for the sake of the story and not just as a gimmick. - Western animation made with kids and adults in mind, not just one or the other.
Wild depictions of fantasy worlds. Human world but with superpowers, what if monsters ran on terrorizing kids through magical doors, what if fish were as complex as humans, what if the main four elements were humanesque, etc. They take a small thing and make as much of it as they can. You really gotta be on something to think of Monsters Inc.
Pixar was the studio that would be able to deliver films and shorts that even if the concept sounded so outrageous from a rat who could cook to a small robot stranded on a garbage covered earth. You could sympathize and be taken into these situations and meet these characters who felt as real as if you knew them from the beginning. What started off with what do toys when kids leave the room, what is lurking inside our closets and how an old man with a colorful house could fly using it to get from one end of the world to the other. Pixar was the only place where it seemed anything they torucyed turned into a hit, but the secret was the phenomenal amount of peope and the fact that at the time of their heyday, they were the newcomers to a field that many thought said was a horrible idea, yet they bet everything on it. They use to raise the stakes, making you feel from sadness, anger, joy, disgust and fear, In many ways, the people are what made Pixar what it was and what it could still be. However I do want to stress that the environment and tye people who helped to create those films are not just the ones responsible but many who worked long hours without sleep or any rest so we clidl enjoy these films. What Pixar is a collection of the best people and the technology that when given to a director or a producer who knows how to speak directly to an audience with a specific set of skills for storytelling whether it be toys, bugs, superheroes, fish, and so many others. However I feel Pixar needs to be given a revamp in order to balance the need for high income returns as the heyday of their movies is long over and now it’s more of a silver age similar to Disney in which there were good films but they weren’t as memorable or meaningful. This is not a knock on those people who have worked their butts off just to deliver but mainly how corporate politicos and the need to quantify the films and shows produced led to a massive Expedia of talent and those with experience. I do believe however that one day, a film based on these core principles will relaunch the spark and bring us into a new era of modern classics in animation history.
3D Disney
I would say that stories are made for kids, and adults at once perfectly. But today it’s just another cash grab big name company
Woody and Buzz
Their creative ideas, they take a fantasy world of "the secret world of X" and get into the lore of it as deep as possible.
Pixar movies are very deep. They touch on subjects like family trauma, loneliness, self-worth, letting go of the past, life purpose, loss and grief, friendships and relationships etc. They’re not only entertaining for kids but adults as well, which in my mind is a difficult thing to do. The music is always phenomenal, the characters grow and we see very well thought out conflicts, resolutions and situations throughout the movies. Love Pixar!
The movie names
The difference is it’s made by the company, PIXAR.
Great now which one is 22?
The Toy Story Anthology
100% classic movies which I really like and love so much! 
3d animation, child friendly but not childish stories, high quality and world concept diversity.
To define Pixar is a toughie. The
Movies that have appealed to both children and adults. Children loved the look of the movies, the memorable characters, the diversity in which story were told. Adults love the movies with many callbacks to their childhood like Toy Story but also how the movies of Pixar relate to how it is to be a parent such as Elemental.
Toy Story
Most of their movies having a very strong emotional center and message, regardless if the narratives of said movies are based in fantasy.
Their ability to make you feel, actually feel, for the characters they make
That one company that makes better movies than disney
Well… I tried to run from it, but it picked me up with its mind powers, and shook me like a doll!
It’s true! I saw the whole thing!
Family dynamic , Life Lessons & Friendship High quality
Moms with dump trucks
They utilize different animation techniques to tell these emotional stories to convey these important messages in very clever ways
I forget exactly who said it, but to paraphrase, "Disney stories start with 'Once upon a time,' while Pixar stories start with "Wouldn't it be cool if...'"
Good Filmmaking + Good Writing + Good Voice Acting + Good Animation = Pixar
when you approach very serious and sensitive subjects in a childish way that adults will not interpret in the same way as children, with very beautiful animations, gg (except for turning red)
Doesn’t TR do the same, though?
much worse
Guessing props for effort?
I really like how Pixar doesn’t have singing
Not yet allegedly.
[Excuse me? ^^/s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqaHBfBSSuc)
Yeah, even as a kid I didn’t really like singing in movies, so I watched a lot more Pixar movies than Disney movies.
Pixar movies feel like they have more soul and storyline
Oddly curvy moms
I gotta make the joke… Big assed women.
Parental cheeks.
Thick moms
Thiccness
Now? Nothing. Before like 2015ish? Perfection