What do they do?

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#1

I’ve always

wondered what Pixar directors do when their not making a movie. I mean, John Lasseter is running 2 animation

studios, so he doesn’t count. But once you finish a project you were working on, then what? Do you still come to

work every morning? Do you start developing other movies? I thought that maybe they “helped out” on

other films, but I can’t find other directors in the credits. And even if they do, they get payed for that?

Speaking of finances, anybody know how they get payed (salary, lump of money every movie, etc.)?

Sorry for

ranting off so many questions! :blush: I’ve just been so bugged by them! :unamused:

#2

I think once you finished with one movie, then you take a break for maybe a week then you

start the process all over again.

#3

Knowing animators, they play videogames. :stuck_out_tongue:

Nah

– I’m just half-kidding. They probably work on some of their other projects, take some time off for themselves,

et cetera. Although, taking into account that the studio has 5-6 films under their hood at the moment, their

employees are (most likely) always constantly at work.

#4

Good

Point! :stuck_out_tongue:

#5

Well i assume then the directors just sit around and goof

off right? :wink: I would think maybe they’d take a short break then (considering these movies take years to

produce) get to thinking about their next film.

#6

lennonluvr: well, I don’t think they would think up an idea on their break? it

wouldn’t be a break then wouldn’t it? :wink:

#7

well no

it wouldnt, but I said take a short break then get to thinking about their next

film. :slight_smile: and they may think about it a little during a break. Doesnt mean they’d do anything about it at the

time. :wink:

#8

Anyone cannot say that anybody who works at Pixar, ‘Always’ works there.
Is obvious that

they do have their own lives outside of Pixar when they are not working in their jobs. And then many of the

Directors, if not all, have to sometimes even do some of their planning and work outside of Pixar, or at home,

(As Mr. Stanton had to, during some parts of his Finding Nemo project in order to

keep it together, mainly at the start of it).

I have seen on the FN dvd of a bonus video about an inside

look at what Pixar looks like and there was a part there that showed some of the animators working in Pixar,

playing video games. So yes I see that some of them are blankly video game fans for sure.
And for every movie

they finish, we all know they have a celebration over there after announcing to the whole crew over there about

the completion of the aimed project. And those people who were in that project team may or may not have the

ability to rest, while they are likely given new jobs after they have done their parts in a previous project. But

heh, it definitely is not a ‘siesta’ for any of them. There main purpose in

working at Pixar is To Work. Which is the same for every other employee at a major

line company out there in the world.

#9

Dory’s Defender - My point

exactly…concerning the computer games and the employees’ workloads.

Breaks are fine…as long as they don’t last unnecessarily long; heck, the studio itself is filled with

such “relaxing” amenities as foosball, soccer fields, tennis courts, swimming pools, and even video

games. Everybody at Pixar are like grown-up kids – living proof of how much fun it is to goof off as well as

work there. :stuck_out_tongue:

#10

So basicly, they have fun

while they work, thus considering it a semi-break.

#11

Yep, is a different place of life at

Pixar Animation Studios.
And yet, they are closed from the public.
They have

alot of things there. And I had also learned that some of the peoples workplaces there are like little cottage

houses inside the studios. They have places to sit and talk all together, fun and games, and they even have their

own fun meeting events that are great to have with many of the employees working in projects to help them gain

better interaction and relations with everyone else who works in their team in which overall, increases the

potential for more work being done faster and with more ease together, and also bringing more creative thoughts

and ideas to help form a great movie for all of us to see and be supportive of its existence and what the

individs that accompany it can be for all of us who do.

#12

The Star Swordsman - You got

it! It’s important to have fun doing what you do. :wink:

Dory’s Defender - Yep

– you nailed it! And yeah, they (the employees/supporting staff) do have the priviledge of designing their own

workrooms: Pete Doctor’s room is set up like a miniature tiki lodge, other workers have collections of toys and

comic books placed along their walls, and some employees even now the entrances to secret rooms hidden behind

their bookshelves or through air vents.

#13

Another thing I’ve never understood is how Pixar “functions”, if I

may, without employment contracts. I mean, how do the animators get paid? :confused:

#14

Are you sure the Animators don’t have any

kind of contract of any kind? I thought they would. :question:

#15

If you look

here:

Pixar Wikipedia

And scroll a little bit you’ll see it

says they don’t use them. But impies other studios do. :confused:

#16

I think that even when

Pixar writers (especially the big ones like John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Andrew Stanton etc), are on

holiday/vacation they are still working on their next projects but rather thinking about it rather than putting

pen to paper.

#17

?claro!
You wouldn’t expect them to be

loafing for the entire time during the holidays. Some of their works mean big business, and big business means no

time for games. Is their job, so they have to manage their times well in order to continue suceeding in what I

see that they do best in.