Pixar Research

Pixar, the most famous animation filmmaking studio of this world, has been succeeded in both box office and artistry for more than ten years since it issued "toy story", its first 3D animation film, in 1995. The most important reason for its success is that it attaches much more importance to its content quality. It is well-known that filmmaking mixes film creating with business management and scientific technique, especially in animation area. Nearly every Pixar's animation film is excellent is owing to that it has done good jobs in the three aspects, and besides, idealism also plays distinguishingly significant role in Pixar's success. Scientific technique provides possibility for 3D film development and makes it move on. Film creating gives the technique an orientation. The technique can be fully used only by a good originality. Talent business management not only provides 3D animation filmmaking with huge money, but also integrates film art with other specialized fields. Idealism takes a very important place in Pixar. Using 3D technique to make a long animation film is the common dream of the crew of Pixar, which makes the crew can work together actively, cooperate easily and help each other kindly, even.though they come from much different fields.This paper consists of five chapters. The first chapter is a summarization of Pixar's generation and development. The second chapter discusses the characteristics of Pixar's filmmaking and content. The third chapter studies Pixar's business management. The forth chapter talks about the influence which scientific technique takes to Pixar's animation films. The last chapter is about firm idealism of Pixar crew.