Comments on: Colossal Pictures & MTV.

By: Jeff S

Jeff S — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

This is true and I not saying it was a bad thing! I think that Pixar got the best deal! I trying to remember back many years but wasn’t Pixar in the same building as Pheobus (SP?) Lighting in SF before moving to Emeryville?
Forgive me but I am getting old!
I think the time frame I thinking of is about 1990 - 1991, now I am not a historian by any means.
So maybe Spawned was the wrong choice of words!
Forgive me Sir!
BTW: I loved the MTV spots!
Dant, da, dant, dant, a, dant…

By: Floyd Bishop

Floyd Bishop — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Now that I’m not sure of. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some cross pollination of ideas and staff though. CG was the wild west then, and there was a lot of collaboration and comradery… much more so than today.

By: Floyd Bishop

Floyd Bishop — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I’m guessing you are talking about the layoffs at Colossal Pictures that happened in 1996? While many former Colossal staffers did go to Pixar, many also went to other companies in the area as well as starting their own. Pixar got it’s official start ten years before this event in 1986, when Steve Jobs bought the company for 10 million dollars. At the time, there were 44 people working at Pixar. While many Colossal Pictures employees went to Pixar in 1996, “Toy Story” had already come out the year before, and Pixar was spawned for some time.

By: Jeff S

Jeff S — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s not forget how Pixar was spawned!!!!