Pixar is het bedrijf die de grote massa trakteerde op computer animatie films op een heel nieuw level, want de eerste Toy Story was zo zijn tijd vooruit dat deze zelfs nu nog als een paal boven water staat. Want sinds dien hebben we zoveel mooie films van hun gekregen dat de website TheFW.com nu deze top tien heeft gemaakt, met dingen die je waarschijnlijk niet wist. Dingen zoals:

1. Pixar was started under George Lucas, not Steve Jobs

The late co-founder of Apple is often credited with bringing Pixar to life in the filmmaking world during the mid '80s. It's true that his investments helped them reach their iconic status and level of influence in the film industry, but he wasn't the first person to help start John Lasseter and the other dreamers at Pixar on their journey.

That credit should go to 'Star Wars' creator George Lucas and his Lucasfilm studio. According to the book "The Pixar Touch," Lucas hired Dr. Ed Catmull, a computer science professor from the New York Institute of Technology, and his Computer Graphics Lab in 1979 to bring the work Catmull had done in computer graphics and animation into the film industry as part of his Industrial Light and Magic special effects studio. The team that would become the bulk of Pixar's chief technology strategists worked on special effects for such scenes as the stained glass knight sequence for 'Young Sherlock Holmes' and, most famously, the "Genesis Sequence" for 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.'

"The Graphics Group," as they were known at Lucasfilm, eventually branched out on their own when Jobs purchased the tech rights from Lucas for $5 million. (Lucas reportedly sold the rights to offset financial losses from his divorce and dwindling sales of 'Return of the Jedi' merchandise.) The new company was dubbed "Pixar" with Catmull as president and Jobs as Chairman. The name - coined by Aly Ray, Loren Carpenter and Rodney Stock - is a made-up Spanish word meaning "to make pictures." Ray, who came from a Spanish-speaking background, originally suggested "Pixer." Carpenter added the "ar" because it had a "high-tech" feel to it like "radar," and the rest is history.