{"id":2179,"date":"2008-08-24T19:12:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-24T19:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/catmull-on-creativity"},"modified":"2008-08-24T19:12:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-24T19:12:02","slug":"catmull-on-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/catmull-on-creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Catmull on Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"luxoharvard\" alt=\"luxoharvard\" src=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/341.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/>Ed Catmull, president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu\/hbsp\/hbr\/articles\/article.jsp?ml_action=get-article&#038;articleID=R0809D&#038;ml_issueid=BR0809&#038;ml_subscriber=true&#038;pageNumber=1&#038;_requestid=42489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">very detailed piece<\/a>&nbsp;on Pixar&#8217;s creative culture for the <a href=\"http:\/\/harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu\/hbsp\/hbr\/index.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvard Business Journal<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Catmull touches on how Pixar innovates in art and technology and the risks they take to achieve this through change. He talks about the company&#8217;s&nbsp;beginnings as a research group, through the production of <em>Toy Story<\/em>,&nbsp;the Disney merger, and beyond; and how they&#8217;ve kept their culture, and plan to keep it, for a long time. The article is 7 pages long and full of fun tidbits that should keep Pixar fans (especially those inetersted in the behind-the-scenes action) interested.<\/p>\n<p>Also,&nbsp;listen to&nbsp;a conversation with Ed Catmull <a href=\"http:\/\/discussionleader.hbsp.com\/hbreditors\/2008\/08\/how_pixars_ed_catmull_empowers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/pixarblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/catmull-talks-pixar-creativity-in-hbr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Pixar Blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>Ed Catmull, president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, has written a very detailed piece&nbsp;on Pixar&#8217;s creative culture for the Harvard Business Journal. Catmull touches on how Pixar innovates in art and technology and the risks they take to achieve this through change. He talks about the company&#8217;s&nbsp;beginnings as a research group, through the &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Catmull on Creativity - Upcoming Pixar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/catmull-on-creativity\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Catmull on Creativity - Upcoming Pixar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ed Catmull, president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, has written a very detailed piece&nbsp;on Pixar&#8217;s creative culture for the Harvard Business Journal. 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