Lessons from Pixar: Innovation through collective creativity

http://speakerdeck.com/u/nirlevy/p/collective-creativity

by quizbiz • 15 years ago

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erichocean2• 15 years ago

tl;dr: Not worth a read.

As someone who has spent an enormous amount of time studying Pixar's process, and why it works, I can tell you that the author of those slides simply cribbed material from an Ed Catmull speech, and has no clue what was important from that speech and what was not.

michaelchisari• 15 years ago

Do you have a link to the original speech? I'd be interested to see it.

JulianK• 15 years ago

I believe it's this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc

quizbiz• 15 years ago

You're right. I almost regret this submission. But without your comment, I would have stopped exploring this.

What would you add? What did I miss?

I didn't really think through submitting this to HN. I certainly haven't had the luxury of studying Pixar's process in depth. I guess the title gives off the wrong impression.

I quickly made these slides to try to extract some concrete lessons from Ed's article in HBR. As I grapple with creative autonomy in my own startup, these slides were a way for me to start to think about introducing ideas to the co-founders.

ollerac• 15 years ago

I really appreciate your humility. It's obvious you're genuinely looking for something and that's heartening.

You might want to check out some interviews with John Lasseter. I enjoyed this video that documents one of his days at Pixar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5HN3-l_f-U

apollo• 15 years ago

I think this was derived from Ed Catmull's talk at Stanford.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc

Lessons from Pixar: Innovation through collective creativity

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