Post #210086 by Tiki-bot on Tue, Jan 24, 2006 4:28 PM

I think you meant Pixar "(is) giving up creative control of their legendary animation studio". There's a lot of speculation going on in the digital art community about WHAT IT ALL MEANS! Will Pixar be pounded into creative submission like Disney's own animation division was? Or will Jobs/Lasseter/Catmull have more control over the course of Disney's future animation projects? No one seems to be talking specifics.

The fact is that even though Jobs is the biggest shareholder, only time will tell what kind of power he has over the Disney board of directors. My guess is that the Pixar acquisition is merely a happy by-product (for Disney, anyway) of Jobs master plan for dominion over a huge license leveraging, content creation and distribution empire. Think about it: Disney has one of the most valuable catalogs of movies and properties in the history of...history itself! They also own ABC television. Jobs presides over a superstar content creation facility (Pixar) and the hottest hardware and software distribution conglomerate in the computer world: Apple. I think taking over Pixar is going to seem like small potatoes when this machine gets up to full speed over the next few years.