'Pixar: 20 Years of Animation' opens in Taipei

But, why is Pixar so good at telling stories?

“The people at Pixar are really really passionate about telling stories,” replied Klaidman. “They love it. It's something that's just deeply inside them.”

Also, she noted that Pixar's artists work in a very collaborative environment, with one person – the director – as the leader of “the vision.”

“The director has the idea, works with the writers and writes it; but the director works very closely with the story, artists, and everybody wants to meet the director's vision,” she said.

With 75 people when Toy Story was made, she remarked that Pixar has roughly 200-300 people working on one movie, with more than three already in the pipeline – “Toy Story 3” is due to be released in June 2010, “Cars 2” in June 2011 and “The Bear and the Bow” in December 2011.

Yet, the working atmosphere at Pixar is not like: “I'm the leader and you'll do what I say,” it's rather an atmosphere of “that's a great idea” and “hmm, does that help tell the story?” she pointed out.

“When people feel so much respect and so much passion for the same vision, it just works. I mean it's hard, it's really hard work; it takes 4-5 years to make one of these, [there are] struggles along the way,” she said.

Having a story you want to tell, having the passion to really work hard and to tell it, and having the right combination of people are among the guiding principles she would recommend for a Taiwanese company to succeed in the animation industry.

“You need the creative skill, the technical skill, and you need the management, business organization skill, and you need to create a working environment where people are truly respectful of each other's ideas, and collaborative, and passionate. So if you have all those ingredients, of course you can,” she concluded.

Pixar: 20 Years of Animation (皮克斯動畫20年) / Now through November 1 (Sun.) / Taipei Fine Arts Museum (臺北市立美術館) / No. 181 ZhongShan N. Rd. Sec. 3, Taipei City (臺北市中山北路三段181號) / Adult NT$200, Concession NT$150 / (02) 3393-9888 /

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