Pixar
An annotated collection of 3 books on pixar, spanning 2009 to 2016. Featuring works by Bill Capodagli & Lynn Jackson, Ed Catmull & Amy Wallace, Lawrence Levy — each with editorial commentary oriented to digital product practice.
Innovate the Pixar Way: Business Lessons from the World's Most Creative Corporate Playground
Capodagli and Jackson document the specific organisational practices Pixar uses to sustain creative output at commercial scale — the braintrust, dailies, the iterative reliance on notes, the refusal to ship until the sto…
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Catmull's account of running Pixar and later Disney Animation — thirty years of specific organisational practices designed to make creative work survive the forces that usually destroy it. The book is more honest than mo…
To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History
Levy was Pixar's CFO during the years leading up to its IPO and during its relationship with Disney, and the book is his inside account of turning a struggling animation studio into the most commercially successful creat…