Before the toys and monsters, Pixar was a hardware company.
In short: Discover how one of the world's most profitable animation studios began not with movies, but with high-end computer hardware for the government and medical fields.
Long before winning twenty-seven Academy Awards, Pixar operated as a high-end computer hardware firm. Its early history is defined by financial struggles, the hiring of fired Apple employees, and the development of digital printers rather than the polished animation for which it is now famous.
The studio's origins trace back to a Mormon graduate student at the University of Utah. This transition from hardware to the most critically adored animation studio in history highlights a journey of industrial evolution and creative pivot.
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