ENGLISH ARTICLE

PIXAR

Pixar Animation Studios (Stylized as PIXAR), or simply Pixar is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California. The studio is best known for its CGI- 1. …… (animating, animated, animates, animate) feature films created with PhotoRealistic RenderMan, its own implementation of industry-standard RenderMan image-rendering application programming interface used to 2. …… (generate, generates, generated, generating) high-quality images. Pixar 3. …… (begin, began, begun) in 1979 as the Graphic Group, part of the computer division of Lucasfilm before its spinout as a corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc, co-founder Steve Jobs, who 4. …… (become, became, becoming) its majority shareholder. The Walt Disney Company bought Pixar in 2006 at a valuation of $7,4 billion, a transaction which made Jobs Disney’s largest shareholder.

Pixar has produced thirteen feature films, beginning with Toy Story in 1995. It was 5. ….. (follow, following, followed, follows) by A Bug’s Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monster, Inc  (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009), Toy Story 3 (2010), Cars 2 (2011), Brave (2012). Twelve of the films have received both critical and financial success, with notable exception being Cars 2 , which, while commercially successful, 6. …… (receive, receiving, received, receives) substantially less praise than Pixar’s other productions.

The studio 7. …… (had, has, have) earned 26 Academy Awards, seven Golden Globe Awards, and three Grammy Awards, among many other awards and acknowledgments. Since the award’s inauguration in 2001, most of Pixar’s films have 8. …… (were, was, is, been) nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, with six winning: Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, and Toy Story 3 are two of only three animated films to be 9. …… (nominate, nominating, nominates, nominated) for the Academy Award for Best Picture. On September 6, 2009, executives John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich were 10. …… (present, presents, presented, presenting) with Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Biennale Venice Film Festival. The award was presented by Lucasfilm founder George Lucas.

1.What is the main idea of this text?

a.    The main idea in the first paragraph is about the beginning of Pixar Animation Studio.

b.    The main idea in the second paragraph is the films was produced by Pixar Animation Studio

c.       The main idea in the third paragraph is the awards that have been achieved by Pixar Animation Studio

2.What is the author’s purpose in writing the text?

The author’s purpose in writing this text is to tell about how Pixar Animation Studio was built from beginning and can survive in animation industry until now.

3.What kind of writing is this?

The writing above is kind of an article of animation studio

4.What type of writing is this (expository, technical, narrative, etc.)?

The type of writing is narrative, tell the readers about a big animation studio like Pixar.

5.What kind of Tenses of this writing? 

The author use the Simple Present Tense and Present Perfect Tense, the Tenses that usually uses in a daily conversation, because it’s more simple, effective, communicative and efficient