Almost 30 years since its inception, Pixar movies continue to demonstrate and celebrate how emotionally engaging the animated film can be. This is a book about why animation moves the heart and the mind. The Films of Pixar Animation Studio offers the reader and animation enthusiast a one-stop handbook to the studio's work, discussing each film in great detail. Each Pixar feature film is explored in terms of creative choices made by the films' producers, writers, directors and animators from the first bright idea through to final realisation.