{"id":595,"date":"2008-06-22T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=595"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:51:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:51:38","slug":"the-pixar-touch-sample-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/22\/the-pixar-touch-sample-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PIXAR TOUCH: Sample Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt the biggest success story in films in the past two decades has been the rise of PIXAR Animation Studios. A small sidebusiness started by George Lucas but sold off to Steve Jobs, the small northern California-based studio rose to prominence through a combination of smart business strategies and the boundless imagination of its output.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, <em>The PIXAR Touch<\/em>, David A. Price&#8217;s fabulously researched hostory of the company from its earlliest days to the present, has been released to some rave reviews. We haven&#8217;t had a chance to dig into the book ourselves, but we can point you in the direction of something that may whet your appetite to read it.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, the <em>New York Times<\/em>, published a chapter excerpt from the book, which charts the development of Toy Story 2 from direct-to-home video quickie release to a feature film in its own right. The decisions that went into this evolution are as much practicle business ones as they were articstic, and makes for fascinating reading.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re interested in reading <em>The PIXAR Touch<\/em>, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=PIXAR%20Touch&amp;tag=filmbuffonlin-20&amp;index=books&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\">here<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=filmbuffonlin-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>to order the book from Amazon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Without a doubt the biggest success story in films in the past two decades has been the rise of PIXAR Animation Studios. A small sidebusiness started by George Lucas but sold off to Steve Jobs, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/22\/the-pixar-touch-sample-chapter\/\" title=\"THE PIXAR TOUCH: Sample Chapter\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[33,7857],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-animated-film","8":"tag-history"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}