The Pixar Touch Journal Entry #9

5 comments

1.) Pixars first product was the Pixar Image Computer.
2.) The Pixar Image Computer was hardly purchased by customers.
3.) Steve believed that they could populate the world with Image Computers.
4.) I believe Steve is right.
5.) I also believe that during the time the Pixar Image Computer was around, it was more of a luxury rather than a necessity.

4 questions

1.) What made the Pixar Image Computer so great?
2.) Why did few people buy it?
3.) What didn't they like about it?
4.) What did they like about it?

3 vocabulary words

1.) Ebullience - high spirits; exhilaration; exuberance. Pg. 85
2.) Subterfuge - an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc Pg. 86
3.) Cel - a transparent celluloid sheet on which a character, scene, etc., is drawn or painted and which constitutes one frame in the filming of an animated cartoon: may be overlapped for change of background or foreground Pg. 98

2 literary techniques

1.) "We had people there we'd have to remind to go cash their paychecks." This is characterization because Kolstad is stating how many people were into the research rather than the money. Pg. 87
2.) "Who's going to buy a $125,000 image processor that requires a host computer and has software development tools but no applications software?" This is conflict because Computer Graphics World is having issues with the PIC. Pg. 89

1 summarizing sentence

1.) Pixar Inc. has many employees working as hard as they possibly can, but they are into the research rather than the money.