Article is a little shallow. Great video by Catmull to Stanford business school on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

Article is a little shallow. Great video by Catmull to Stanford business school on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc (54 minutes) And here's an article by him: http://hbr.org/2008/09/how-pixar-fosters-collective-creativity/ar/1 http://hbr.org/2008/09/how-pixar-fosters-collective-creativi... e.g. Toy Story 2 was an impetus to creating the present review system; the reason for saying 5 good things is just to make the people feel better about the criticisms: the last thing you want to do after years of exhausting work is point out what sucked. Catmull is the main guy driving these standards; Lasseter is busy being a creative; BTW: I thought I'd discerned a hidden pattern of pixar having the writer voice the primary mentor role - Brad Bird voiced Edna Mode in The Incredibles; Andrew Stanton voiced Crush in Finding Nemo - but... Brad Bird didn't voice Gusteau in Ratatouille