Alvy Ray Smith

A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of...

By the mid-1980s, the fabled animation studios of Walt Disney had fallen on hard times. The artists were polarized between newcomers hungry to...

The story of Pixar's early short films illuminates not only the evolution of the company but also the early days of computer animation, when a small...