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Pixar Animation Studios This article is about the animation company. For information on the file format .pxr or the graphics designing computer, see Pixar Image Computer. Pixar Animation Studios 1995-present logo Type Subsidiary Industry CGI animation Motion pictures Predecessor(s) Graphics Group of Lucasfilm Computer Division (1979–86) Founded 1979?(1979) as Graphics Group August 17, 1986?(August 17, 1986) as Pixar Founder(s) Ed Catmull Alvy Ray Smith Steve Jobs[1] Headquarters Emeryville, California, United States Key people Ed Catmull (President) John Lasseter (CCO) Jim Morris (General Manager and Executive VP of Production) Products Pixar Image Computer, RenderMan, Marionette Parent Lucasfilm (1979–1986), Independent (1986–2006),The Walt Disney Studios(The Walt Disney Company) (2006–present) Subsidiaries Pixar Canada Website Pixar Animation Studios, or simply Pixar (/?p?ksɑr/, stylized 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 PhotoRealistic 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.[1] The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4?billion, a transaction which made Jobs Disneys largest shareholder. Pixar has produced fourteen feature films, beginning with Toy Story in 1995. Thirteen of the films have received both critical and financial success, with the notable exception being Cars 2, which, while commercially successful, received substantially less praise than Pixars other productions.[2] All fourteen films have debuted with CinemaScore ratings of at least A-, indicating a very po