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Before Pixar was Pixar, it started at NYIT in the 70s with Ed Catmull, Alvy Ray Smith, Malcolm Blanchard, David DiFrancesco, Ralph Guggenheim and Bill Reeves and some others.

The second stage happened when George Lucas hired the six names already mentioned and formed a group that continued to grow by adding more people, amongst them John Lasseter.

The third stage was the Steve Jobs era when the Company of Pixar was actually formed (even if he was not actually a founder).

The fourth stage was when they started making features.

The fifth stage was when Disney bought the studio from Steve Jobs.

And now, when both Lasseter and Catmull (and Lee Unkrich and Darla Anderson) are gone after having been major forces for decades, and new projects like the Spark shorts have officially been put in motion, and not to mention that the Disney and Pixar studios are now in charge of two different presidents and CCOs, it looks like we have entered the sixth stage.
Which makes you wonder if this will lead to any noticeable changes from now on.

I hope so. I'm definitely interested in WDAS and PIXAR more now that Lasseter is gone. I don't doubt that for a few more years they'll still follow the buddy roadtrip formula, but I believe we'll start getting little bursts of creativity here and there that would've never happened under Lasseter.

My hope is that we some day will see a Pixar movie that doesn't feel like a Pixar movie (in a good way). Just for the sake of variation.

It'll be interesting to see what changes Jennifer Lee and Pete Docter bring to their respective studios and to see new artists having the opportunity to direct now that several have left from both studios. Though I agree with Disney's Divinity that these changes won't happen overnight. We'll have to wait a bit to start to notice the differences with the previous management.

Yeah, most of the projects that are already in production or pre-production, perhaps all of them, were greenlighted before the recent incidents, and finding a new approach to a story will take some time anyway. And just as important as the story itself is how a story is executed.

Yes, the Era of Lasseter's raping is over.

Pixar are hopefully (and most likely) entering a new stage.

I am very curious about what will result...