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For a long time it felt like Pixar was doing better stories than Disney and honestly I feel like Disney animation slowly started catching up with Pixar stories when John Lasseter was put in charge.

From your description you’d expect Disney studio to produce better stories.

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There’s no monopoly on stories and Disney was run by committees for a very long time. The internal culture and some of the non-movie activities reflect the values of each studio. For example, Pixar open sourced USD which is quickly becoming an industry standard for animation and VR. I could never imagine WDAS open sourcing something that could give them a competitive technological advantage.

USD = Universal Scene Description, in case anybody else was wondering.

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