Book Review

The Pixar Touch (2008)

David A. Price

Reviewed by Steve Daly | May 20, 2008

Steve Daly

Steve Daly is a senior writer at EW, and also author of EW.com's Money Shot column

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EW's GRADE

B+

Details Writer: David A. Price; Genres: Nonfiction, Science and Technology; Publisher: Knopf

AN ANIMATED HISTORY Reporter David A. Price draws a fascinating portrait of the making of a CG-animation behemoth in The... The Pixar Touch

AN ANIMATED HISTORY Reporter David A. Price draws a fascinating portrait of the making of a CG-animation behemoth in The Pixar Story

Long before it defined CG-animation excellence with films like Toy Story and The Incredibles, Pixar was a scrappy graphics-software and computer-hardware company, constantly in danger of extinction. Its saviors include cofounder Ed Catmull, who dreamed of being an animator but couldn't draw; driven writer-director John Lasseter, a would-be innovator pushed out of Disney; and deep-pocketed patron Steve Jobs, who held on through years of huge losses. in The Pixar Story, David A. Price, a tough, unsentimental reporter, ferrets out lots of backstage drama from fresh sources, weaving a commendably unvarnished history. B+

Originally posted May 09, 2008 Published in issue #991 May 16, 2008 Order article reprints

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