it's a complete depar te for pixar in the sense that it, pixar's first kind of period film, you mightomputer animation because with a film set in medieval scotland like brave, every object which we have to create, has a sense of history to it. so it's so hard for the computer to do. the computer like its things to be perfectly, you know, perfect. like the bloomberg building, you know. it likes doing things like that. whereas in medieval ottland it's so challenging. it's pick all-- pixar's first female lead character as well t is so exciting. this has got such adventure to it and magic. and also,ou know, i'm so proud of recently cars come out. it just came out on home video. and it was a real labor of love for myself too because my father was a parts nager at a chevrolet manager at whittier, california, ani grew up loving cars. and it is really kind of the merger of the two sidesf my family, my two loves which is my mom with the art and animation and my dad with cars. and so you know, i'm really proud of them. >> rose: and if the criti don't see it, does it bother you, because you have

he was driving up the pixar. handling -- and then of course goes back to apple he is juggling quite a few things. i think that was a time of great stress in his life and also some unhappiness. next is not doing very well. those maps aren't selling. and pixar -- it was a hard hardware software company and nobody is buying pixar -- except disney bought a few pixar machines, and so for a while he hemorrhaging moneys at boast companies. >> and the most wildly creative period, producing these phenomenal -- >> by the time they produced "toy story" they're no longer hemorrhaging money. >> yeah. did he long for apple during this period? did he ever give up on the notion -- >> no. apple was his baby, his child. i don't know he longed for it but he was deeply frustrate it was being screwed up. that after a whale they weren't inventing new products and the products sucked and they kept coming out with more macintoshs but not a new man. couldn't create a new operating system, a new mac os, so he is watching as people screw u

. >> and simultaneously was doing pixar. >> pixar is a wonderful example of the intersection of art and technology. a friend brought him up to george lucass to meet some of those people, and lucas was getting rid of the digital animation software division he had. steve thought that was really cool, thought he could make it for consumers the ability to do digital renderings, and that never took off, but there was one guy working there in charge of making shorts to show off how cool the machines were, and he made a couple shorts with a lamp and then one called tin toy, and the rest, as they say, is biography, if not history, and makes one eventually leads to toy story, and pixar is a transformative thing in the animation business. >> he said something very profound to you in the book about that period, which is the strain that running pixar and next simultaneously put on him physically, and he even says i think that had something to do with my eventually getting cancer. >> i don't think that's the case. i don't think you can get cancer from working hard and stress, but he felt that way an

the research i put into all of my books and work is a product of how we do things that a-- at pixar.es you will see him depicted monkey-like or as superman. i wanted to honor his monkey coloring. i decided to paint him white with a darker face. it is nice to breathe new life into it in a way that is reverent and honors the past but also lets them breathe and have fun. it is almost a european notion to bring these symbols and icons from southeast asia. they decorate their deities. it was a god they interacted with every day in a human way. the most important thing has been to create work that is appealing to me. i want to see vishnu to pick did in a modern way. it dawned on me by reinterpreting the deities in a way that is modern and reverent to the history, i am building a bridge for young and old audiences to make friends with the culture and these icons to learn their stories. ♪ >> sanrio famous for the designs for hello kitty. i thought i would try to make it as cute as possible. that way people might want to read the stories. then people might be open to learn about the deities a

and incorporated it as pixar. john was there from the very start. was there and we were joined by other people along the way. and it took us ten years to do it. >> what was so hard? >> oh, there were-- good question, huh. >> yeah, it is a good question. it took us a long time to build the technical foundation to dohis stuff. we were pioneering every step of the way, pixar invented all of this stuff, but as john says we don't view our ef i as a technology company, our product is content, all of it is just in the service of the storytelling, of the eative people. and computer animation is a misnoer. the computers don't dot animation, they do the drawing. and they crank on ese drawing arings for like three hours but one of the fastest computers which is item drawings are three dimensional. but the animators act, you know, i've watched john and his team work. they are the heart and soul of the characters, they do all the acting, not the computers. >> but to make re i understand what you are sayi, i would think that people, when i was telling you about m

he was driving up the pixar. handling -- and then of course goes back to apple he is juggling quite a few things. i think that was a time of great stress in his life and also some unhappiness. next is not doing very well. those maps aren't selling. and pixar -- it was a hard hardware software company and nobody is buying pixar -- except disney bought a few pixar machines, and so for a while he hemorrhaging moneys at boast companies. >> and the most wildly creative period, producing these phenomenal -- >> by the time they produced "toy story" they're no longer hemorrhaging money. >> yeah. did he long for apple during this period? did he ever give up on the notion -- >> no. apple was his baby, his child. i don't know he longed for it but he was deeply frustrate it was being screwed up. that after a whale they weren't inventing new products and the products sucked and they kept coming out with more macintoshs but not a new man. couldn't create a new operating system, a new mac os, so he is watching as people screw u

you have to remember pixar was a hardware software company and no one is buying pixar except for g disney bought a few imaging machines. but it's not selling that well.o so for a while, he is hemorrhaging money of bothhagi countries. mon >> one of the most widely mos created periods, too. pixar was producing these "toy phenomenal -- theo >> well, by the time they produced transfix, there were no longer hemorrhaging money. >> to the line for apple doing this. to be ever fully give up on theu notion click >> now, apple was his baby. apple was his child. w he was deeply frustrated that he was beingy screwed up, that afw a while they weren't inventing new products in the productsproc that can they kept coming out with more lines ofd macintosh ts a better machine.coun't create they couldn't create an operating system, you know, a new macro ice. os, s so i think he is watching this people screwed up the wonderfuld baby it helped create. >> finally, at least to hise an tryouts. >> they can't create an operating system at a certain o, point we'll emelia who has beeng running apple says okay, i've

. >> cars 2 was produced by the bay area's own pixar. new girl received nominations. the artist has the most nominations with six fold by the help and the descendants with 5. the goal en globe will be held january 15th, sunday. >> that's chris, a former trash collector from santa cruz. last night, he performed with three of the other semifinalists on the show. the results of the viewer poll will be announced on tonight's show. the final three will compete for the $5 million grand prize beginning at 8:00 p.m. right here on ktvu. that will do it for us. thanks for watching. have a great day.

. >> reporter: more likely because it's pixar genius brad bird's first none and i mated movie.nd the heroes qafer on ledges or above whirling blades like they know they're in the hands of someone used to indestruct i believe cartoon characters. >> i don't think you realize this, but you're about to walk into a whole mess of danger. >> reporter: the adventures of tin-tin on the other hand is steven spielberg's first animated movie. and freed from earthly restrictions with 3-d, the slap stick action wizard of his and our wildest dreams which arenas it's indiana jones squared. i was grinning so hard my jaw hurt. spielberg has another superb film: war horse. based on a kid's book told through the eyes of a horse swept up in the first world war. >> i promise you that i will look after him. and if i can i'll return him to your care. >> he's my horse, sir. >> reporter: i've heard complaints it's corney. if corney means showing flickers of generosity amid scenes of incomprehensible slaughter, i say bring it on. we need something in these fractured times to remind us of our common human

. >>> coming up on today in the bay, an early pixar film going into the national archives. >>> hundredsthousands of people lining the streets for kim jong il's funeral procession in north korea. a li rept coming up. >>> welcome back at 6:43 right now. thousands of north koreans lined the funeral procession route today in the snow to watch the coffin of kim jong il pass by. "today in the bay's" brian mooar is live in washington with the rare video of live tv in north korea. >> reporter: marla, this is highly choreographed. what we're seeing is exactly what the north korean regime wants us to see. the message is this is a dignified, orderly transition of power from the dear leader to the great successor, from kichl jong il to his youngest son, kim jong-un, just 27 years old and completely untested. while we're looking at the tens of thousands of hysterical mourners lining the snowy streets of the capital, there are subtle clues as to the change of power that is taking place here. kim jong-un walking right alongside the limousine that is carrying his father's casket. but right behind him,