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Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios
, or simply
Pixar
, is an American
computer animation
film studio
based in
Emeryville, California
. The studio is best known for its
CGI
-animated feature films created with
RenderMan
, its own implementation of the industry-standard
RenderMan
image-
rendering
application programming interface
used to generate high-quality images. Pixar began in 1979 as the
Graphics Group
, part of the computer division of
Lucasfilm
before its spin-out as a corporation in 1986 with funding by
Apple Inc.
co-founder
Steve Jobs
, who became its majority shareholder.
The Walt Disney Company
bought Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion, a transaction that resulted in Jobs becoming Disney's largest single shareholder at the time.
Luxo Jr.
, a character from
a 1986 Pixar short film of the same name
, is the mascot for the studio.
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