Pixar Canada Officially Open!

Although they’re still in temporary offices in downtown Vancouver as they finalize a permanent, 20,000 sq ft. home, Pixar has released a video today announcing their official arrival in Canada! 18 year old me is pretty excited right now, while 8 year old me fainted before he had a chance to check the video out on CTV’s website, which for some reason is against embedding videos (we all know that embedding is why NO ONE has ever heard of YouTube…), which not only features John Lasseter, Ed Catmull, and the executive team at Pixar Canada discussing the new studio, but shows various classic characters discovering the city. 

Like I said, I’m obviously pretty excited. Not just that Pixar’s in the country, but that they’re in the same city, when they could have hit up Montréal— the main reasons for Vancouver seem to be taxes, the matching timezone for working with the mothership, and the fact that there’s a huge talent pool here looking for work. 

Here’s hoping it all works out in the long run, this is going to be a huge deal for the vfx/animation community at large here.

Thanks to /Film for the find!