The critical consensus is: As entertaining as it is innovative, Toy Story kicked off Pixar's unprecedented run of quality pictures, reinvigorating animated film in the process.

Docter has been an integral part of some of Pixar's most seminal works, including Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc., all of which received critical acclaim and honors.

In 2006, in keeping with his strong interest in car racing, he provided the voice of Doc Hudson, a retired anthropomorphic race car in Disney / Pixar's Cars-this was his final performance for a major feature film.

Based on the commercial success of Pixar's computer-generated animated films and other CGI fare ( especially Dreamworks ' Shrek, which contained numerous jabs at Katzenberg's former workplace and boss ), Disney came to believe that CGI was what the public wanted — so it ceased producing traditional two-dimensional animation after Home on the Range, and switched exclusively to CGI starting with 2005's Chicken Little.

In Pixar's Cars ( 2006 ), sponsors of the original NASCAR vehicles were replaced with fictional or parody brands.

Based on Pixar's Cars films, the ride begins with a race briefing from Lightning McQueen and ends with an outdoor side-by-side dueling race to the Wheel Well Motel.

He also meets up with Violet in a cameo appearance in the Disney on Ice play Disney Presents Pixar's The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure.

The first film to be released with this format was Pixar's Toy Story 3 which was later followed by 50 releases using the format.

Tin Toy went on to claim Pixar's first Oscar with the 1988 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, becoming the first CGI film to win an Oscar.

In 2009, significant Colombian interest was generated in Pixar's film Up due to the uncanny similarity of the film's protagonist, Carl Fredricksen, with Turbay.

and the central scene of Pixar's " Up " Don Hertzfeld ’ s animated short Billy ’ s Balloon bears a strong resemblance to the film, namely in its being about a sentient red balloon and an intrigued child, and both end with a gathering of other sentient balloons, though Billy's Balloon is much darker.

Opened on August 21, 2008, the first act of the show features, the on-ice debut of Lightning McQueen, Mater and the crew of Disney • Pixar's Cars, along with Disney mainstays The Little Mermaid's enchanting undersea kingdom and the magical world of the Pixie Hollow of Tinker Bell and the Disney Fairies.

* Child Detection Agency, a fictional agency in the animated world of Pixar's Monsters, Inc.

Piedmont is home to a number of notable individuals in the political, business, sports, and academic communities, including: ex-Major League Baseball player Dave McCarty ; ex-National Football League player Bubba Paris, San Francisco 49ers ; ex-National Football League player Bill Romanowski ; Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich ; Peter Docter, director of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. and Up and co-writer of WALL-E ; Billie Joe Armstrong of the rock band Green Day ; Eric Whitaker, GC of Tesla Motors ; Thomas Horn, actor ; and Dr. George Rutherford, State Health Officer. Also Dipper and Mabel Pines from the Disney Channel show " Gravity Falls " was born here.

* Sulley, nickname of James P. Sullivan, a character from Pixar's Monsters Inc.

The initial theatrical and video releases of this film include Luxo Jr., Pixar's first short film released in 1986, starring Pixar's titular mascot.

Disney / Pixar's Finding Nemo received the 2003 award, defeating nominees The Triplets of Belleville and Brother Bear.

McManus had a cameo voicing a crab in Pixar's 2003 animated film, Finding Nemo.

His film work includes writing and directing Pixar's A Bug's Life ( as co-director ), Finding Nemo and WALL-E, and his first live-action film, John Carter.

It will be based on four of Disney and Pixar's most popular films: The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Finding Nemo, and Cars.

Gould made his acting debut at the age of six and became well known for voicing the title character of Disney / Pixar's Finding Nemo.

Pixar's The Incredibles spoofed this convention by having a new villain, The Underminer, burst into view from underground at the very end of the movie.

Lee reprised the role as a " robot copy " of Syndrome in the 2006 Disney on Ice play Disney Presents Pixar's The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure.

Some critics expressed that Cars did not hold up to the standard of other Pixar films due to its lengthy story, especially after the acclaim received by The Incredibles, Pixar's previous film.

He is best known for having written and directed Warner Bros .' The Iron Giant ( 1999 ), and Pixar's The Incredibles ( 2004 ) and Ratatouille ( 2007 ).

Brad Bird, director of Pixar's The Incredibles, asked Giacchino to provide the soundtrack for the film after having heard his work on Alias.

He supplied the voice for Mr. Incredible / Bob Parr in the Cantonese version of Disney and Pixar's The Incredibles.

He provided the voice of Dashiell Robert Parr in The Incredibles, and again in the Disney on Ice show Disney Presents Pixar's The Incredibles in a Magic Kingdom Adventure.

* Disney / Pixar's The Incredibles.

The score for the short was written by Michael Giacchino, who also composed the scores for Pixar's animated feature films The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up and Cars 2.

He also worked as the dub voice of Gilbert Huph-with whom he bears a striking optical resemblance-in the German language version of Pixar's " The Incredibles ".

In 2006, Crow contributed the opening track, " Real Gone ," to the soundtrack for Disney / Pixar's animated film Cars.

He voiced Finn McMissile in Pixar's 2011 film Cars 2 and also voiced a supporting role in the animation, Gnomeo and Juliet.

He has appeared in various other films, including Night Shift, Clean and Sober, Pacific Heights, Much Ado About Nothing and Jackie Brown, and has also provided voicework in Pixar's Cars and Toy Story 3.

Out of the three nominees for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, two of the nominees ( Monster House and the winner Happy Feet ) used motion capture, and only Disney · Pixar's Cars was animated without motion capture.

* The car number of Lightning McQueen ( voiced by Owen Wilson and the main character in Disney / Pixar's Cars ).

Color Wonder paints and fingerpaints, as well as Color Wonder coloring books of popular characters such as Disney Pixar's Cars and Disney Princess also exist.

He will voice the lead character in the upcoming direct to video Disney animation Planes, a spin-off of Pixar's Cars.

* Radiator Springs Racers, a similar attraction at Disney California Adventure themed after Disney · Pixar's Cars.

Pixar's Cars used a long recording of the song ( 2006 ), and Disney California Adventure Park prominently incorporated it into the nightly neon lighting ceremony in the new Cars Land.

* Guido, character from Pixar's 2006 animated film Cars

It was then placed between the releases of Disney / Pixar's Cars ( June 9 ) and Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures ' Superman Returns ( June 28 ).

In Pixar's Cars & Cars 2, the Goodyear blimp appears as the Lightyear blimp.