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On Toy Story 4, the words "ANIMATION STUDIOS" are already formed while the logo still plays as normal. On Pixar's 20th Anniversary Special , when the lamp has squished the I, we can see "CELEBRATING 20 YEARS" in gold.
First used for the 3D release of Cars 2 (2011) as well as 3D releases of anamorphic PIXAR films and shorts. 25th anniversary version in Cars 2 (2011) (theatrical release only, the normal logo appears on home media releases)
Pixar Animation Studios (pronounced "pics-ar") was formed in 1979 as The Graphics Group of Lucasfilm Computer Division by Edwin Catmull, Steve Jobs, and John Lasseter. It was renamed to its current name in 1986, and originally produced CGI animated shorts, most notably The Adventures of André...
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1979–1986
Pixar began in 1979 as The Graphics Group, a part of the computer division of Lucasfilm.
1986–1994
On February 3, 1986, Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs acquired the company from Lucasfilm and renamed it Pixar. Its first logo, based on the design of their image computers, was nicknamed "the BSD" (short for "Beveled Square with a Dent"), a play on the Berkeley Software Distribution version of Unix that Pixar used. The wordmark was created by John Lasseter with a stone cutter.
1994–present
During production of Toy Story in 1994, Pixar began referring to itself as Pixar Animation Studios, and dropped the square logo in favor of a wordmark set in the Charlemagne Bold typeface. This logo was created by current Pixar CCO Pete Docter. The character Luxo Jr. became a mascot and appeared in the on-screen logo for every opening and closing of Pixar films, starting with the closing logos of Toy Story(1995), the company's first movie and the world's first fully computer-animated feature...
Pixar has produced 28 feature films, which were all released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through the Walt Disney Pictures banner, with its first being Toy Story (which was also the first CGI-animated feature ever theatrically released) on November 22, 1995, and its latest being Inside Out 2 on June 14, 2024.
Currently Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Lucasfilm Animation (through Lucasfilm) and 20th Century Studios's animation division are parts of the Walt Disney Studios unit.
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Logo Variations - Pixar Animation Studios. Toy Story (1995): Normal animation, but when Luxo Jr. faces us, the animation freezes for a few seconds and fades in to the opening scene (which is the cloud wallpaper in Andy’s room).
