Pixar

Pixar, doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. It is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios and one of Disney's three feature animation studios. The studio started in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division, was known as the Graphics Group before its spin-off as a corporation in 1986 with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder, and was acquired by Disney in 2006. Pixar is best known for its feature films, technologically powered by its RenderMan software, which began as its implementation of the RenderMan Interface Specification image-rendering API of 1988.