First 20 Years of Pixar Tribute - A Million Dreams

Yes, I left out Cars 2 and Monsters University. Why? Well, to be perfectly honest, at first I just forgot they existed, then I realised that I didn’t have any room for them in the finished video, sooo….. I’ll save them for the part 2 where I cover the second age of Pixar Movies. Thank you and goodbye.
For anyone who cares, allow me to entertain you with my ramblings about Pixar. AHEM
Pixar is great. Like, really great. Their movies practically raised me. Their honesty, fun, and love have carried me since before I can remember. Each of the films you see on screen here are my personal favourites, back when the studio was still young and fully alive and all the original crew were still working there. I remember I used to binge watch as many behind the scenes featurettes for these films as I could. How Toy Story 2 was almost accidentally deleted, the many struggles of getting Toy Story 1 off the ground, or getting Pixar off the ground, for that matter. The story of a Pinocchio toy, was it? That they got stuck to the ceiling of their first office? It’s been so long, I don’t know if that’s correct, but I remember watching it. Also, Brad Bird making the Incredibles-use every part of the buffalo-the studio tour with Nemo’s voice actor, and so much more. Pixar became much more than a studio name to me. I may not have been a member of their family, but I knew that I really wanted to. I especially looked up to John Lassiter. The man they used to call “the next Walt Disney.” I don’t think he was ever Walt, but he was something just as special. John Lassiter. The man who pioneered 3D/computer animated movies, helped found Pixar, and directed (or at least produced) so many of Pixar’s, and later Disney’s, movies. As an artist, I still look up to him. I want to write stories like him. I want to seek what he sought, as some might say. His hard work inspires me every day.
That being said, I have no interest in joining modern day Pixar. It’s not that I think they’re a “bad” studio now, or that their movies “stink,” it’s just that I can tell that the original crew are mostly gone now, John Lassiter chief among them. It’s not the same family it was twenty, or even ten years ago. It’s becoming more and more like Disney, which will come as no surprise to anyone, I think, but I still consider that a negative. I don’t like the way the Disney company is run. Period. So, I’ll keep watching Pixar, probably, maybe, but my main focus will be on Skydance animation where John Lassiter works now (or at least, that was the last I heard) and also my own work. I’ve got a lot of creativity to share with the world, and I hope I get to make as big of an impact on others as Pixar did on me. So thank you, Pixar crew, and thank you John Lassiter. To infinity and beyond!