PIXAR
25 Years of Animation
6 July 2012 to 6 January 2013
Media Conference: 5 July 2012, 11 a.m.

PIXAR is a computer animation film studio that owes its success to its pioneering CGI techniques which have since become the industry standard. PIXAR was the first company to develop 3D technology for cinema and to bring out 3D animation feature films. Since its foundation PIXAR has won fourteen Academy Awards (among them for Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, and Toy Story 3) and forty Oscar nominations.

In the 1920s Walt Disney made California the centre of the animation industry. Today's leading studios are situated in the San Francisco Bay area. The exhibition is the first in Germany to provide an insight into the workings of PIXAR Studios in California. Paintings, drawings, works on paper, maquettes, film sequences, documentary features and much more will illustrate the outstanding creativity of PIXAR that is behind the hugely successful, completely computer-animated films.

After Anime! High Art – Pop Culture, PIXAR is the second in a new series of exhibitions at the Art and Exhibition Hall that reaches out to a young audience.