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It is currently one of the main four Disney branches, the other three being the Disney Animated Canon, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Star Wars. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7.4 billion the transaction made Jobs the largest shareholder in Disney. Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm before it was acquired by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs in 1986. It is best known for its CGI-animated feature films created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface used to generate high-quality images.
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The studio has earned 27 Academy Awards, 8 Golden Globes, and 3 Grammy Awards, along with many other awards and acknowledgements.
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Pixar Animation Studios is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California and a part of the Walt Disney Studios group.