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The Pixar Touch: The Making of a Company

With a New Afterword by the Author

Pixar?with the help of animating genius John Lasseter and Steve Jobs?has become the gold standard of animated filmmaking from the beginning with a short special-effects shot made at Lucasfilm to its present position as the producer of landmark films Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, and others. Price writes about the corporate feuds between Lasseter and his former champion Jeffrey Katzenberg, as well as between Jobs and Michael Eisner. And finally Price goes behind the scenes of Pixar?s complex relationship with the Walt Disney Company as it transforms itself into the $7.4 billion jewel in the Disney crown.