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For anyone looking for a deeper dive into how Pixar iterates on their movies and how highly-functioning creative teams can work in general, Creativity, Inc. by
by andygcook 6y ago
For anyone looking for a deeper dive into how Pixar iterates on their movies and how highly-functioning creative teams can work in general, Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull is a really interesting book.
It goes into the history of Pixar and some of the detail of how they work with actual stories from the movies they've made. One of my favorite anecdotes from the book is how they nearly almost lost all the work they did on Toy Story 2 and almost went under.
One caveat is that the book doesn't cover the news about John Lasseter's misconduct, so it's not all roses, of course.
- mentos 6y agoGreat book. I read it once 4 years ago and again 2 years ago thinking about reading it a third time. The lessons have been applicable to me in game dev but if you work in any field whatsoever that relies on creating anything I'd recommend reading it.
- JustinGarrison 6y agoCreativity Inc came out in 2014 and John left in 2019. I'm not sure how that would have been covered or relevant to the book.
- andygcook 6y agoRight. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I meant that the book doesn't cover that scandal (which it couldn't have, as you mentioned) and that the Pixar story isn't all roses.