George Lucas And Steven Spielberg Are Actually The Worst Best Friends

Lucas’ Divorce Led To Pixar Being Founded

The gates to Pixar’s campus is seen in Emeryville, California, on November 29, 2016.Over 21 years of unparalleled success, the executives at animation studio Pixar have developed an aphorism they are fond of repeating — that their movies are never finished, just released. The motto speaks to the perfectionism that has seen the company gross almost $11 billion and win 13 Oscars since “Toy Story” blazed a trail as the world’s first feature-length computer-generated animation in 1995./ AFP / Frankie TAGGART / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY FRANKIE TAGGART-“Pixar celebrates 21 years with ‘love letter’ to Mexico” (Photo credit should read FRANKIE TAGGART/AFP/Getty Images)

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Lucas would sell the research and graphics department of Industrial Light & Magic to pay off the divorce settlement of his ex-wife Marcia Griffin. That division, which pioneered the computer animation for Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Kahn, was sold to Steve Jobs.

Jobs would rename the company to Pixar. It didn’t take long Pixar to have acclaim for its short films, and eventually, that led to the release of Toy Story. That would make the movie the first ever full-length computer-animated film.

Lucas’ first film and Tom Holman would be an inspiration for a company founded in 1983.