The Pixar Touch Journal Entry # 8

5 comments

1.) Pixar is improving their technology.
2.) Pixar is still associated with Lucasfilm.
3.) Pixar is ten times better than Lucasfilm.
4.) Lucasfilm just recently made a computer animation film and the graphics were awful.
5.) I wonder if George Lucas misses Pixar's brilliant work.

4 questions

1.) Where is Pixar receiving all this money?
2.) How will Pixar use the money?
3.) When will they make their first film?
4.) How will ordinary people receieve all these computers?

3 vocabulary words

1.) Percolating - to cause (a liquid) to pass through a porous body; filter Pg. 82
2.) Wholly - entirely; totally; altogether; quite Pg. 81
3.) Espoused -to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause Pg. 83

2 literary techniques

1.) "Our first computers were born not out of greed or ego but in revolutionary spirit of helping common people rise above the most powerful institutions." This is a hyperbole because it is giving an immense exaggeration of the powerful institutions. Pg. 83
2.) "...but we had a long way to go to get there." This is foreshadowing how much of an impact Pixar will have on society. Pg. 85

1 summarizing sentence

1.) Jobs bought Pixar and Catmull and Smith are beginning to understand how hard it is to run a business.