How Pixar Lost Its Way

Re:How Pixar Lost Its Way by babesh on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @07:37PM (#14363753)

Intentional talent drain. A tiny bit of anecdotal information from a talk given by a couple of Pixar artists was that if you were an artist, you could get paid 30% more in Southern California than at Pixar in Emeryville. Also talked to an engineer who left Pixar for Google. I think Bob Iger doesn't want an independent and powerful Pixar.

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Re:How Pixar Lost Its Way by moomin on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:39AM (#14365707)

Yeah, there's no real story here, is there? Pixar is now a Disney brand, charged with keeping its existing properties chugging along happily. Meanwhile, the original Pixar team has spread out and created stuff like Tomorrowland (far from perfect, but way more interesting than the average movie) and Frozen (which it's fashionable to hate on but is actually as good as its receipts). Wreck It Ralph and Zootopia _are_ Pixar movies, they just don't have the brand.

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Re:How Pixar Lost Its Way by mifreewil on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @11:31PM (#14364644)

What's in Southern California?

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Re:How Pixar Lost Its Way by Kindra on Thursday May 18, 2017 @12:10AM (#14364745)

Disney Animation is based out of Burbank. I think the writing was on the wall when John Lasseter took over as head of basically all of Disney's animation groups which includes Pixar.

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