Pixar purchased from Lucasfilm by Steve Jobs

In 1986, Steve Jobs, the visionary co-founder of Apple, made a historic move by purchasing Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division and incorporating it as Pixar. This acquisition, which initially seemed like an unconventional venture, would go on to reshape the computer graphics industry. Pixar, at the time, was a small computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, experimenting with computer-generated imagery. Under Jobs’s leadership, Pixar would evolve into an animation powerhouse, revolutionizing not only computer-generated images but filmmaking itself. In 1995, they released Toy Story, the world’s first feature-length computer-animated film, setting a new standard for animated storytelling using computers, a trend that to this day has not been reversed.