A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - by the achievements of"Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented individuals, into the construction of its East Bay campus, the provider's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable preliminary string of eight strikes. The donations of Ed Catmull, John Lasseter and Steve Jobs are profiled. Two-dimensional animation's decline is chronicled as animation rises. Effort and creativity seem to share the monitor in equal proportions.