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At the beginning of Pixar films, starting with A Bug's Life, the logo simply fades out when the logo is complete. On Cars and its video game adaptation, the text "20 YEARS" (with Luxo Jr.'s light replacing the 0 in "20"), with "CELEBRATING" above it in tiny letters, appears when the logo dims.
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)
- The Graphics Group
- Pixar
- Pixar Animation Studios
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 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...
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.
This is the closing logo variation for Toy Story 4. Instead of the lamp, Duke Caboom rides in his motorcycle and bounces to squish the "I" down with it. Then, a Combat Carl Soldier enters from the left to get a high-five from Duke.
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Jim Morris is President of Pixar Animation Studios, where he oversees all of the company’s productions and operations. Morris began working at Pixar in 2005. Films under his supervision include “Ratatouille,” “Up,” “Toy Story 3,” “Cars 2,” “Brave,” “Monsters University,” “Inside Out,” “The Good Dinosaur ...
