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The first feature-length computer animated film was the 1995 movie Toy Story by Pixar.

Grammer supplied the voices for " Stinky Pete the Prospector " in 1999 Disney / Pixar film Toy Story 2, Vladimir in the Fox animated movie Anastasia, Rothbart in Barbie of Swan Lake, Zozi the Bear in the subsequently produced prequel Bartok the Magnificent, and the title character in the short-lived animated series Gary the Rat.

In the 2012 Pixar movie Brave, two main characters are Lord MacGuffin and his son, Young MacGuffin.

Since Disney acquired Pixar in 2005, Disney has also produced animated shorts since 2007 with the Goofy short How to Hook Up Your Home Theater and produced a series of live action ones featuring The Muppets for viewing on YouTube as viral videos to promote the 2011 movie of the same name.

In 2009, Mount Roraima served as inspiration for a location in the Disney / Pixar animated movie Up.

The Blu-ray version of the movie disc bonus footage features a short film ( called Adventure Is Out There ) about some of the Pixar production team going to Mount Roraima and climbing it for inspiration and ideas for the making of Up.

The restaurant inspired scenes in the 2007 Pixar movie Ratatouille, and received an " unexpected boost " from the film.

Disney / Pixar has removed the scene in question from theater showings but the DVD release of the movie still includes the scene.

It has since appeared in other Disney movies and every Pixar movie.

In 2011, the song " City to City " from GO Remixed was featured in the trailer for the Disney Pixar movie, Cars 2.

Arcade games also had an impact on the film industry ; beginning with Space Invaders, arcade games began appearing at many movie theaters, while early films based on video games were also produced, most notably Tron, which grossed over $ 33 million in 1982 ( equivalent to over $ 76 million in 2011 ), generated another $ 15 million revenue from North American video rentals, inspired the use of CGI by Hollywood film studios such as Pixar, and began the Tron franchise which included a video game adptation that grossed more than the film.

" The movie is great to look at and a lot of fun ," wrote critic Roger Ebert, " but somehow lacks the extra push of the other Pixar films.

* A talking dog in the Pixar movie Up

Well known examples of this are Jackie Chan and Pixar movies, almost all of which play outtakes at the end of the movie.

* Sheldon, a young seahorse in the Pixar animated movie Finding Nemo

As the projector rolls, scenes from the Disney / Pixar movie Cars are shown as the band plays through the number.

PRMan is produced by Pixar Animation Studios and used to render all of their in-house 3D animated movie productions.

The 2007 Pixar movie Ratatouille, was dedicated to Lee.

* The 2001 working title of the Pixar movie Cars

Short films still occasionally precede the feature presentation ( Pixar films generally feature a short, for example ), but the double feature is now effectively extinct in first-run movie theaters in the U. S.

Most notably Pixar has produced a series of movies such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo, and the Blender Foundation the world's first open movie Elephants Dream.

Most recently, Allen Michaan has spent close to $ 300, 000 to install twin 3-D projectors in two of the 84-year-old Oakland movie palace's theaters-similar to the state-of-the-art setup Pixar has in its private screening auditorium, and he also repainted the building at a cost of $ 170, 000.

Since then, a similar form of sampling of the song has been used to note the meeting between, or the longing of one character for another, as indicated in the 2003 movie Daddy Day Care as well as in the Pixar film Toy Story 3 when Ken first meets Barbie.

* WALL-E, the 2008 Pixar film in which a distress signal is sent from Earth to all autopilots in 2110 saying that Earth's rising toxicity levels has made life unsustainable and that all the starliners should remain in space.

The 2008 Pixar film WALL-E contains a subplot in which a generation ship containing humans returns to Earth after many centuries.

In the Pixar film WALL-E, humans are shown to have evolved into obese, docile, and lazy people as a result of robots being able to do everything for them.

He has received two Academy Award nominations for Sound Editing: for Paul Thomas Anderson ’ s There Will Be Blood at the 80th Academy Awards and for Pixar sci-fi film WALL-E at the 81st Academy Awards.

He also made an appearance in the 2007 sci-fi comedy I'll Believe You, and he plays Shelby Forthright, the CEO of the Buy ' n Large Corporation, in live-action segments in the Pixar animated film WALL-E.

* Around the time when the Pixar Animation Studios film WALL-E was in production, Disney. com released a clip of Wall-E's first encounter with a hula hoop, swinging it across his neck.

* The mega-corporation Buy ' N Large is founded in 2057 in the Pixar Animation Studios film WALL-E.

A combination of the " Ralph " and " Zarvox " voices serve as the voice of the computerized autopilot, AUTO, in the 2008 Disney · Pixar film WALL-E. " MacInTalk " is credited as the voice of Auto in the film's end credits.

* In the Pixar film WALL-E, the robot EVE is equipped with an ion cannon in her right arm.

* * In the Pixar film WALL-E, the Axiom, the flagship of the fleet of BnL starliners, departs Earth for its five year cruise which failed in 2105 because of toxic levels.

Garlin also was a voice actor in WALL-E, an animated film by Pixar that was released June 27, 2008, as the Captain of the Axiom spaceship.

The 2008 Pixar film WALL-E depicts docile humans with what appears to be a post-scarcity dystopia, albeit humorously imagined.

Reardon supervised the storyboard department and co-wrote the Pixar film WALL-E with Andrew Stanton, which was released on June 27, 2008.

* WALL-E, also called Wally, a 2008 film about a robot of the same name by Pixar Animation Studios

" The tagline was heard in a cameo for the Pixar film Cars, in which Tom and Ray voiced anthropomorphized vehicles ( Rusty and Dusty Rust-Eze, respectively a 1963 Dodge Dart V1. 0 and 1963 Dodge A100 van, as Lightning McQueen's racing sponsors ) with personalities similar to their own on-air personae.

In contrast to the 1990s, fewer major animated features of the 2000s included musical numbers, as the success of Pixar and DreamWorks computer animated films ( which were not musicals ) upset Disney's dominance.

Pixar created a 3D zoetrope inspired by Ghibli's for its touring exhibition, which first showed at the Museum of Modern Art and features characters from Toy Story.

In 2005, after disagreements between Disney's Michael Eisner and Pixar's Steve Jobs over the distribution of Pixar's films, Disney announced that they would be creating a new animation studio, Circle 7 Animation, to make sequels to the seven Disney-owned Pixar films ( which consisted of the films released between 1995 and 2006 ).

As it is the norm, the term is usually superfluous, but it makes an important distinction in situations in which one might normally expect animation, as in a Pixar film, a video game or when the work is adapted from an animated cartoon, such as Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones or Josie and the Pussycats films, or The Tick television program.

Pixar also targets the mass market with its movies, but adopts a differentiation strategy, using its unique capabilities in story-telling and animation to produce signature animated movies that are hard to copy, and for which customers are willing to pay to see and own.

It acquired an international reputation, producing numerous talented individuals and teams which found their place within studios as prestigious as Disney, Universal Studios, Hanna Barbera, Pixar, Dreamworks and Warner Bros.

A segment of Feed the Kitty, in which Marc Antony believes that Pussyfoot has been turned into a cookie ( and unaware that the kitten is actually perfectly safe ), was the subject of a homage in the Pixar film Monsters, Inc.

* Your Friend the Rat, a Pixar short film which briefly mentions Black in the history of rats.

Lasseter pitched the concept for Tin Toy by storyboard to Pixar owner Steve Jobs, who agreed to finance the short despite the company's struggles, which he kept alive with annual investment.

Pixar, in fact, sold the license to the manufacturer of Tin Toy MINDStyle objects, which created a maquette of the vinyl character Tinny inside of the line Art Toy Collectible limited Edition of 500 pieces, the price of ninety dollars.

Disney was uninterested in the concept and urged Pixar to produce a feature immediately which became a critical and commercial success.

Pixar made a test animation for Violet using audio from that sequence, which is included on the DVD version of The Incredibles.

Only The Walt Disney Company — which owns Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, the Pixar Animation Studios, and Marvel Studios — is fully based in Southern California.

In 2006, Operation Lifesaver requested that Disney edit a scene of the Pixar film Cars in which the character of Lighting McQueen races a train to a grade crossing while the crossing lights are flashing.

Spinoffs of the short called " Surprise ", " Light & Heavy ", " Up and Down ", and " Front and Back " have appeared on Sesame Street, which are now available on the Pixar Short Films Collection – Volume 1 though the original narrative track is not included.

In March 2008, Bird resumed work on the film, which is a co-production between Pixar and Warner Bros.

* Day & Night ( 2010 ), an animated short film created by Pixar and which was shown along with Toy Story 3 during the movie's opening in the U. S., featured an excerpt from one of Dyer's lectures.

The upbeat jazz orchestral sound was a departure in style not only for Giacchino but for Pixar, which had previously relied on Randy and Thomas Newman for all of its films.