The Pixar Touch Journal Entry #1

5 comments

1.) Pixar is incorporated with Disney.
2.) The makers of Pixar were unemployed and made it to the top.
3.) Ed Catmull was an undergraduate in 1970.
4.) The creators of Pixar believed in 3-D computer animation when others thought it wasn't possible.
5.) Lasseter was working at Disney before he was fired from their.

4 questions


1.) Why was Alvy Ray Smith fired from his job?
2.) Why was Lasseter fired from his job?
3.) Why was Catmull fired from his job?
4.) Why were these well-educated men fired from their jobs?


3 vocabulary words


1.) Cherubic - a beautiful or innocent person Pg. 4
2.) Ubiquitous - existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent Pg. 11
3.) Contingent - likely but not certain to happen Pg. 8


2 literary techniques


1.) "The story begins as a soft-spoken, straitlaced former missionary named Ed Catmull enters graduate school at the University of Utah in 1970." This is characterization because it is displaying the qualities Ed Catmull has. Pg. 9
2.) "In Pixar's case, at least, the resistances and uncertainties were abundant - as was the will." This is a simile because it uses "as" to explain the resistances, uncertainties, and the will as being abundant.


1 summarizing sentence

1.) The journey for the creators of Pixar has begun because Ed Catmull has been recruited to the University of Utah.