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Pixar Animation Studios, commonly known as Pixar is a computer animation studio owned by Disney. it began in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division, known as the Graphics Group before Disney purchased it in 2006.
Pixar has produced around 22 feature films, beginning with Toy Story (1995), which was the first-ever computer-animated feature film; its most recent film was Onward (2020). Toy Story 3 (2010), Finding Dory (2016), Incredibles 2 (2018), and Toy Story 4 (2019) are all among the 50 highest-grossing films of all time,
The studio has also produced dozens of short films.
so how Pixar as a studio was able to create all these amazing animation movies but most importantly what is the software behind the magic they are able to create.
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Can confirm that Pixar would never have Presto (or Marionette, for that matter) out in the wild, been told directly from a Pixar dev that support would be a nightmare on a good day. For any students keen on interning at Pixar, they recommend that they cut their teeth on Maya, as (apparently) transitioning to Presto is easier if you have Maya experience. Other interesting tidbit, back before Autodesk pillaged the majority of the CG software ecosystem, when Maya was made by Alias|Wavefront, A|W made the Maya source code (which would have been somewhere around v2 back then, I think..?) available to Pixar so that they could write the prman-Maya bridge to be as seamless as possible.
Thanks for sharing !
For animation internships, maya actually isn't listed as a requirement and they'll make their judgements based on 2D reels as well! From personal experience, they'd be happy to train a 2D animator for Presto - inspirationtuts mentioned it's very artist friendly. But knowledge of maya certainly does help a lot!
@@gracev7855 Very true, not one piece of software qualifies or disqualifies candidates - good artists' skills shine through, no matter the tools being used.
This means that Maya = presto.. So Maya is the king!
@@cherifaly6757 Um... actually, no. Do not love your tools, they will not love you back (:
I'll just stick with blender
nice
and i'll just stick with Maya
me too
@@severfifteen994 That's a personal attack
@@severfifteen994 maya HE maya WHO
2:40
Why...
Yikes, salty face
I dont remember that part in the movie....
Animators just goofing about and having fun for shits and giggles. Got to have some stress outlet.
Therapist : Undead Dory doesnt exist, she cant hurt you.
Undead Dory : 4:10
XD
200th like
2:20 it just keeps getting weirder...
Ikr
4:17 Ohhh, that direct on-model pose editing.
Ohhhh, that’s good stuff.
Even source filmmaker doesn’t have that, which makes it a pain to use for me.
I love how this channel upload interesting videos all the time.
Glad you enjoy it!
@@InspirationTuts Yes I love every single one of your uploads. Its very rare to find youtubers like that.
Yeah it's becoming my favorite too
Ye
Another video full of inaccuracy
The secret is they have the best artists, pipe td and production management team to control the cost and delivered the final product.
Tools matters but it's not the focal point of how they have accomplished their amazing work.
I find it's funny how people always comparing which software is the best, it really depends on what best suits your workflow and pipeline.
Tools are always a limit for a good artist, i bet their tools is trying to eliminate the upper ceiling and also make it the most efficient way.
Blender has gained some real ground now. Allowing anyone to modify the source code and selling it for free really sets it apart
open source, free, and a generalist software... that's why it's great. it may not be like maya, c4d, zbrush, or whatever where they're focused on just 1 thing, and that's not a bad thing because it opens so many more doors than the rest do and that's ok.
Pixar Exec: Brian it's a kids movie...Your suppose to make a kid's movie 2:40
The thing with blender is you modify it's code unlike propitery software and this allows for wide range of optimizations
It might allow it but it takes an active developer to actually do it too. Whats your point?
@@Megalomaniakaal IT allows it and there are many people contributing to it rather than a small team. This speed up work. U can that blender has catched up to other software
@@cameosix7077 In areas it has and in some it is still doing the catching up. I know I use it too, have been since late 2003. :)
Ironically it used to be one of the best UV unwrappers in mid naughties but sadly it has fallen behind on that front.
Love your videos. It would be great if you highlight all the names of the software used. Thank you ♥️
Alias-wavefront was the industry standard before pixar, it was doing incredible cg for its time, it used to run on silicon graphics hardware which cost 100s of thousands for hardware and thousands for software. Blender will get latest render an in December as both commercial and limited personal editions, and they are very much interested in using blender with renderman for smaller projects and just fun, as they are very much python based themselves in the way they are moving ahead.
Thanks for spending some time in the intro telling us what Pixar is, we would have never known otherwise.
Really helpful
I can see they use Linux to run this in all the screenshots! I think that is really cool.
The software they where using in the video was Maya 😅
Presto is for animation and maya is also used :)
From what I heard Disney studios (Frozen stuff like that not made by Pixar) are animated in Maya but Pixar movies in Presto only. In this video he obviously mixed footage from both (and even the USD software of Pixar) since there is not a lot of ressources on presto.
@@kodoyama presto is a proprietary software owned and developed by Pixar. It's probably inspired indeed but it's not made by the same people. If it was it would have be called Autodesk Presto with a mention on their website (it would be a huge selling point to make the main software for Pixar) but it's not the case so pretty sure Autodesk doesn't develop for them except with Maya yes
Pixar never used autodesk softwares.
@@alexas8787I was not sure for Maya for maybe modeling so thanks
Judging from the few shots of the software shown in the video it resembles Maya more so Blender or 3DSMax.
it was nothing but maya and motion builder
umm do u animate or sculpt or 3d model or anything like that ? if u do , can u please show us 1 time ?
1:37 that guy looks like FilthyFrank and Oliver tree combined
Thanks for the information.
I know the focus is on the software in your videos so this will be a nitpick. Lucasfilm started the division but you forgot to mention the part where it was bought by Steve Jobs and became the company that we know as Pixar before being purchased by Disney. It's a small detail but it kinda leaves people watching this video who don't know the history to think Lucasfilm developed all the technology. Love your videos BTW.
Which software pixar use for texturing?
I love this channel content
Presto Renderman is a Blender plugin
Thank You friend for this video.
Great idea for a video!
What about spiderman into the spider verse?
Something you missed here are the artists. Do you not think Pixar and Disney have gone to EXTREME lengths to get the best animation artists, the most talented, the most skilled and most experienced artists in the world? There is an old saying amongst artists. "An immature artist blames his tools". I personally look to that first Neanderthal who, sitting in his cave, decided to draw a mastadon on his cave wall in charcoal from his firepit. He didn't say, "If only I had a computer!" I think that the artists at Pixar would have done the job just as well, maybe not as fast, but definitely just as well with Maya.
Great video!!
4:52 what's with the thicc dragon who made the thicc dragon wow looks like someone had fun that workday
Looking for name of that movie!
I was looking for this topic a week ago _ I found it now __ thank you so much ⚘
I thought PIxar used proprietory inhouse software called Renderman???? They did a documentary on it a few years ago, I rememebr when they did Finding Nemo, one single frame took over 90 hours to render as it was the most complex in the entire movie.
Renderman is their render engine not their software
4:43-4:48 What are the 3 movies? Ships, SF with Zeppelin and SF with an osprey-like assault craft.
One is POTC, one is fantastic 4, and the assault craft is a thunderbird so it has to be avengers
@@will2037 Thanks!
@@will2037 Have you seen the short film on a similar landing craft? It's part of the Love, Death and Robots anthology by Netflix!
@@Tome4kkkk yeah I watched it they were pretty funny
@@Tome4kkkk I think that's a Nazi bomb, not a zeppelin. It's from Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
Maybe some studio will use a custom version of Blender, since it's open source.
We know what software they don't use - Blender.
@Karanjeet Kainth Yup
the artists in pixar expressed their interest in blender it is told in the event of renderman for blender
They do, or at least they did, i used to work for Kodak (Motion Picture Imaging) and visited Pixar a few times (back then although the animations werte digital they still had to be transferred to 35mm film for the cinemas and we supplied and carried out the work for them, i actually saw Toy Story about three weeks before it premiered.), it was a visit to them that actually got me into Blender all them years back, a few of their artists were working with it, it wasn't their main workflow but these guys found it easier to use for prototyping scenes, they told me they liked it so much so that their in house software was actually originally based off of a heavily modified branch of the original open source blender.
I worked at Disney Animation for almost 8 years, and I did use Blender to model several blendshapes on a movie 👍
@@ikerclon ...and I used Wings 3D and Silo for some things occasionally but that doesn't mean the studio I worked for was using it. Just like your Blender adventures were not in the pipeline of the studio.
What's the film with the dragon characters shown at 4:52?
after watching this all I can think is wow... how low poly is everything? I mean you can't get real time play back like that without being super optimized especially on a laptop
They do animations on low poly model first and once they have the specific animation complete they change the low poly into a high poly model for higher details.
They also use a extensive smoothing program made for A Bugs Life (forgot the name).
As every big company They have own tools. And that tools are using some coding from commercial sws. So that packages are Just improvements. Presto is quite fine, M too. It doesnt matter what code you are using, but if you have something which helps your needs it is always good.
Is this used for rigging too, or just animation? I heard Maya is used for the rigging part, but I could be wrong.
Presto also supports rigging, fur and hair grooming, and simulation (I think?)
What about modeling?
00:48 Nope. Not most importantly. Even If they are given usual tools. They will still achieve their usual quality.. but yeah at the cost of more time.
Nope
Nice video!
Maya is the BMW? reliable? I can't think of a software less stable, maybe in its early days...??
Yea, Maya crashes alot specially in earlier versions.
3:47 OMG, they are using Ubuntu(?) with Gnome
Yes, and they use System76 laptop
@@andikatrin.2574 Awesome!
I have no Idea why there are some dislikes on this video
wow its "open my eye"
0:03 - There goes the hopes the hopes and dreams of some little girls...
They make a lot custome script etc all the time.
you can get renderman but it cost a lot of money i use blender
Nice
Yeah
Answer: they using Presto, originally named "Marrionette".
i have to say this video leaves out a lot of details for example pixars software is actually based on maya but has deviated quite a bit over the years. They also use other software like houdini and yes even blender. And render man isnt actually that useful for most studios most of the use something else like redshift etc.
Renderman is for big scenes. As Arnold from Sony. So for small shots or products sure People can use something like Redshift or Vray (which i dont like). And for milions objects in one scene for example Clarisse. It depends. Renderman is really great, always was one of the best. Also Arnold is my favourite Engine.
USD is fully implemented now in Houdini. Commercial software is always in better position as the dev teams are bigger and have access to many use cases of their clients. I bet in 5 years there will be only 3 software worth learning: Blended, C4D and Houdini. The rest is total crap and stays there mostly due to inertia. And I also bet that one day Pixar will switch to Houdini which they already use for some things. The only weak point of Houdini is character animation which will be patched once KineFX modules get matured. And regarding Renderman, for years it was almost unusable in smaller teams, the latest versions are far better in being easy to use but they also had to rewrite it heavily for that. So not everything that Pixar produce is the best and far beyond everything else. They are for sure pioneers and they contributed a lot to animation and 3D in general and Catmull is a great and wise man, no doubt about it.
industry standard is still Maya 🤷🏻♂️ Although Blender is good, I don't think Blender or C4D will ever be used inside the animation industry
@@daviddoodlez You are correct, Maya is still a king and will be for some time due to various reasons. But animation industry is a broad term and C4D and Blender have their stable place in it and they are covering different areas then Houdini. But only Houdini is in a position of taking Maya down as major vfx studios are already switching (sloooowly), cheers!
@@mareknetzel you have a good point!! I think the switch is currently slow since studios might not wanna re-train their staff to newer programs 😂 Hopefully we can see a shift someday!
I agree Houdini is going to be the next big software because of its ability to produce things procedurally. So instead of making just one chair model, you can design a program within Houdini to spit out several thousand variations of chairs. However, the problem is the vast majority of 3D artists find Houdini scary and hard to learn (since it's got more of a programming workflow), and I hate to be that person but a lot of the programmers that are great at using Houdini don't have that artistic touch. Yes occasionally you have some artists that are good at Houdini and occasionally you have programmers that are really good at art. But that's very rare. So I'm interested to see how the industry is going to tackle that issue.
@frost bite most studios use older versions of software to avoid bugs or unprecedented errors during production, a popular studio in Vancouver uses Maya 2015 just to be safe haha so constant updates aren't always the best in that regard
hello i´m Richard, which software is good for the beginner ? Blender is free but too complecalted for me. so please if you know easy one for me i would be happy thanks.
Every software is easy if u put some time with it.
I recommend using Prisma 3D (or Reconn 3D) for beginners. Both of them are good and more beginner friendly than Blender. (I recommend Reconn 3D the most as it has the best lighting for beginners and stuff)
Nice👍
The only reason they don't use other software is because they couldn't handle the thickness which they had to create.
Wow!
In 2008 I was in a workshop with Doug Sweetland, here, in Brazil. They say 'there os no IK in our software' Its insane, I dont care about 'marionets' is a garbage. May be, todays is a good software.
What is name fast software plz tell me
You forgot that Steve Jobs owned it and allowed Pixar to flourish in its own ecosystem....before Disney bought Pixar by giving Jobs “half” of Disney
There were orks shown, from wich movie are they from???
Warcraft (2016), I think.
Quality video :)
Thanks!
If you think so, then you are a noob. Lol
@@cherifaly6757 your a jerk
Well, today is not only an a software for every kind of purposes, is more a pipeline approach, in that sense the information is too incomplete in this video, may Pixar still used Mari for Texturing, actually, in the usd pipeline web you can see that program, I know that use Houdini for fx and some set dressing, and of course they use Renderman but not in Maya, not in presto, they use Renderman in a scene assembler named katana.
What animation software do they use? I don’t understand
They use Presto, Presto animation software is only exclusive to Pixar, it’s not available to download for the public
It'd be Pixar contributed to Blender more if not at all
So, Pixar uses Linux to run their software. That's expected!
lots of big and small studios run Linux desktops. Why pay the Windows tax when you're running Maya, Nuke, or Houdini 100% of the time?
Not only because windows is costly for setting up but also because windows is really less stable than linux and mac os. My linux laptop can go easily for 2 months without shutting down without an issue... Now imagine this on a windows laptop...
I really thought they would use Mac OS since Steve Jobs had a lot to do with Pixar
@@junilog Good Point! But I don't think the Disney's developers would ask Apple for exclusive high end specs sheet for their custom application. Plus, Linux is also faster than Macos and Windows, so they probably wouldn't have bothered fiddling around Apple's proprietary world.
@@junilog The problem with the Mac is that a lot of the high-end graphics apps are super-optimized to take advantage of NVidia graphics cards, and Apple/NVidia can't get their acts together and collaborate on drivers.
2:40 LOL deleted scenes XXX.....looks some what like blender 3d this good free software .
Your channel is awesome and your narrating is soothing!
ahhh they use maya
What software do they use? Their own. Started by Ed Catmull in 1972. It was named PIXAR in 1985.
Little known fact. John Lasseter tried to introduce 3D graphics to a film while at Disney. He was fired.
Funny how they wanted PIXAR now that it was a success.
They should try Blender also
As "we know it is awesome "
They do, or at least they did, i used to work for Kodak (Motion Picture Imaging) and visited Pixar a few times (back then although the animations werte digital they still had to be transferred to 35mm film for the cinemas and we supplied and carried out the work for them, i actually saw Toy Story about three weeks before it premiered.), it was a visit to them that actually got me into Blender all them years back, a few of their artists were working with it, it wasn't their main workflow but these guys found it easier to use for prototyping scenes, they told me they liked it so much so that their in house software was actually originally based off of a heavily modified branch of the original open source blender.
Presto= Nascar
Maya= Ford
3Ds max= GM
Houdini= BMW
Blender= Volkswagen
That is wrong comparison for Houdini, Houdini is a car factory as you can develop any tool you need within easily....
Blender would be a volvo.. you can drive that shit off a cliff and it would still work
Great! *now Disney*
I'll Be with Cinema4D, 3Ds Max and AutoDesk Maya
Area 51 type beat
Pixar uses renderman. I used it once
@@spaghetta5497 Yup I know thats how i rendered way back.
Why not renderwoman
They invented it.
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 ik
they also use houdini.... a lot
Actually they use their brains alot more!
2:40 ummmm?
Is this the taste of a liar???
Source?
But u didn't tell us what they use for concept, modelling and texturing
Maya/ZBrush and Photoshop
@Oliver Böhm no one use photoshop for texturing today, i see in some project mari and could be create the material in substance designer.
Ok, here's something I have wondered about for a long time: what program do developers use to actually create a program like Presto? How does one go about creating a whole entire program from scratch? Wouldn't there have to be some other sort of baseline, bottom level program to even allow for the creation of a new program? I mean, you can't just pull a software like Presto out of thin air, so where does it come from? What is the process of creating something like Presto? Does that make sense? In a more broad sense, who programs the softwares that allow Pixar to write their own new programs? Does such a "software for making another software program" even exist, or is it all made by people just writing lines of binary code in a terminal and somehow being able to make a new program or something like that? It's kinda like a "chicken or egg" situation in my brain. It doesn't make sense to me how someone would be able to create a new program without some already-existing program being used to create that new program, if that makes sense. I'm trying to phrase this question in a bunch of different ways so hopefully one of them will make sense for what I am asking lol. Basically, who writes the programs that are then used to write other programs? Where does it all start at the very base level?
To answer your question, as far as I know (and this is me talking from my basic knowledge in coding), yes, you do need a programming software that has the ability to compile codes on your computer machine to be able to develop a new program. An example of such programming software is Visual Studio Code, and it usually comes with an inbuilt program preset examples. So, I can download and install VS Code on my computer and it's compilers, then I can take one of the preset programs in VS Code, and modify the code to suit my needs, then when I compile the modified codes, I can develop my own tool that way and give it a name, so that tool does what I specifically wrote my code for it to do... For example, I can use a preset on VS code and rewrite the code such that what it does is to do addition and subtraction of any numbers I input to it, now when I compile this code, I basically create an executable file (.exe) that whenever I launch it, all it ever does is to add and subtract numbers and generate the results for me... Now for computer graphics, it gets even way more complicated, but the basic idea is the same... So, on the basic level, you do need a programming software (e.g visual studio code) that has the ability to compile executable files for you to be able to develop a new tool, and the programmers who specializes on developing new tools or software are software developers... Those are the kind of guys that develop these sort of tools for Pixar etc...
I hope this explanation helps
In addition to my response above, another thing you do have to understand is the very basic way of how computer works. On a microscopic level of things, the only thing computer machine understands is 0s and 1s (like logic gates, 1 means open and 0 means close). Now, in order for we human beings to be able to communicate with computer and tell it to do anything we want, we need to find a way for the computer to interpret whatever command we give it as zeros and ones (0 and 1). That is, we type in a word or a command that we understand, and the computer will interpret and understand them as a combination of zeros and ones.This is where programming language comes in. There are so many types of programming languages that exists, but basically, what those programming language do is to serve as a medium with which we human beings communicate with the computer machine. Now, every programming languages has their own unique sets of rules which we need to learn, so that when we type a command in a programming language, the computer will understand such command and then perform whatever we need it to do. If we do not obey these set of rules, then the computer won't understand us and we will get errors. So, the fundamental of coding is, using a set of rules of a programming language to tell the computer to do anything want, that is called input commands. Then vice versa, for the computer to talk back to us in a way we understand, the computer will give us outputs which we can see on a monitor screen for example. A collection of outputs from the computer that does what we need it to do based on the various input commands we give it are usually collected together in a compiled executable file (created by a compiler by the computer).
This is how I like to look at it
@@TopsonNoble thanks for the in depth response! So my remaining question is where does something like Visual Studio Code come from? Who creates that? I mean, it’s not just natively on a computing system, right? Is VSC just a collection of binary code as well? Like I said, it feels like a “chicken or egg” situation to me. Where does that very baseline stuff like VSC come from? But thanks again for the response, everything else in the process now makes sense to me!
Before Disney, Pixar was owned by Steve Jobs. Then sold to Disney. It was under him that Toy Story was developed and all Pixar features until it sold tho Disney.
And before that, it was the CG division of Lucasfilm. Which George Lucas sold to Jobs to get some cash to help pay for his divorce settlement.
Interesting that, some years after that divestiture, Lucasfilm realized that CG was the future, after all. And so they created Industrial Light & Magic.
The most recent Pixar film is Luca as of now.
Frozen is Disney's - different engine
maya or blender,, what learning
According to yr goals
Maya is industry standard
How can l get presto animation software?
You can’t, Presto is not available for the public, it’s exclusive to Pixar only
Is Presto more functional than Maya?
Who cares?.. They are all tools made from c++ codes..
I bet dreamworks uses commercial software
Really have to admire how sophisticated it is, at least a few million lines of code.
Ahora que lo veo, en algunas capturas de pantalla están usando Gnome, así que efectivamente, usan Linux, jsjsjs.
2:40 wtf
Dleted scnene
I think Game Engines can be used too, to make animated films....
that's just how you render it. generally speaking the modeling, texturing, animation etc are done in a seperate program to the actual game engine, the game engine just handles interactive elements and rendering
@@littlesnowflakepunk855 Oo... So that's it... Are you a game dev or something kind of???
I was trying to find what software did Pixar use? I know the render engine, but the software they use among other things I gotta know this one!
Alias PowerAnimator
Maya
Marionette
Presto
Dude, talking about brief Pixar history without mentioning Steve Jobs is just rude haha. Otherwise nice video, thumbs up.
4:06
you said its free but where can i download it?
They didn’t make it commercially available he said 😢
2:39 bro?
I know animation 😎