No Steve wasn't the creator, he was the executive producer (meaning he gave Pixar money to make the movie). John Lasseter who directed Toy Story and the second film, is the creator and was originally supposed to return to direct the 4th installment but he left and was replaced by Josh Cooley.
He was credited in Toy Story as an Executive Producer. Despite later having little-to-no involvement with Pixar productions, he is often credited under "Special Thanks" during the credits of Pixar's films.
In 1986, he helped develop the visual effects industry by funding the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm that eventually spun off independently as Pixar, which produced the first 3D computer-animated feature film Toy Story (1995) and became a leading animation studio, producing over 27 films since.
After several years of failing to sell The Pixar Image Computer, Pixar decided to go all in on making films. After years of poor sales and rising expenses they were short on cash. To solve this problem Steve signed a $26 million deal to produce 3 animated films for Disney.
One of the most emotional moments in the coming Pixar computer-animated film "Brave" happens during the end credits. The film is dedicated to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who is lauded as a partner, mentor and friend in an early cut of the movie. Jobs served as co-founder and CEO of the Pixar animation studio.
Pixar began in 1979, known as Graphics Group, owned by George Lucas, the producer of Star Wars. Then in 1982, it became Pixar Studios, owned by Disney, with John Lasseter, as chief creative officer.
After Jobs returned to Apple as CEO in 1997, a number of popular Apple products were introduced, including the iMac®, the iPod®, the iPhone®, and the iPad® tablet computer.
Jobs initially had Pixar focus on creating powerful hardware
As is the case now, Pixar in 1986 was staffed by a mix of techies and artists who hoped to create computer-animated films. However, since the technology to do so simply wasn't there yet, Jobs had his group focus on saleable products.
Inspired by the short film Tin Toy, Toy Story is set in a world where toys come to life when they are not noticed by humans, and focuses on the rivalry between Woody and Buzz Lightyear, two toys that fight to be their owner Andy's favorite.
Disney acquired “Toy Story” creator Pixar in 2006 for $7.4 billion. The company became the owner of the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” franchises following the purchase of Lucasfilm in 2012.
Toy Story is a 1995 American animated comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The first installment in the franchise of the same name, it was the first entirely computer-animated feature film, as well as the first feature film from Pixar.
However, a lesser-known chapter significantly shaped his career and wealth: Pixar Animation Studios. It was Pixar's IPO and the massive success of the movie "Toy Story" that made Jobs his first billion, according to reports.
Over the following decade Jobs built Pixar into a major animation studio that, among other achievements, produced the first full-length feature film to be completely computer-animated, Toy Story, in 1995. Pixar's public stock offering that year made Jobs, for the first time, a billionaire.
Despite his immense wealth, Jobs was driven by passion and innovation rather than financial gain. “I was worth about over $1 million when I was 23, and over $10 million when I was 24, and over $100 million when I was 25, and it wasn't that important,” Jobs revealed in a 1996 PBS documentary.
Ever wonder where Steve Jobs got his motivation for Apple? Have you ever heard of the Polaroid camera? It was an innovative and ground-breaking instant camera manufactured from 1948 to 1983. The inventor was a guy named Edwin Land and Steve Jobs idolized him and his company and modeled his career after him.
Pixar started in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division. It was known as the Graphics Group before its spin-off as a corporation in 1986, with funding from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs who became its majority shareholder. Disney announced its acquisition of Pixar in January 2006, and completed it in May 2006.
(The name “Pixar” was conceived as a faux-Spanish word meaning “to make pictures.”) By 1984 Lucasfilm had hired John Lasseter, who had worked as an animator at Disney, and he took advantage of the company's technological strides to create short computer-animated films.
In August 2016 the corporation was acquired by NBC Universal (also known as NBCUniversal), a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation, which was originally a cable television operator. Owing to the slow pace of animated feature production, the first two DreamWorks Animation features were not released until 1998.
Jobs founded a new technology company, by the name of Next Computers, which went on to become a success and was acquired by Apple years down the line. However, he also purchased the graphics division of Lucasfilm, which was later on renamed, you guessed it, “Pixar”. Steve Jobs' involvement with Pixar began in 1986.
Steve Jobs had invested $5 million in animation film studio Pixar after he had left Apple in 1985, and became a billionaire for the first time when Pixar went public in 1995. Jobs later sold Pixar to the Walt Disney Company in 2006 for over $7 billion, and became Disney's largest individual shareholder with a 7% stake.
In 2009, Pixar started expanding its campus to accommodate an additional 1,000 employees, a project dubbed 'Pixar Phase II'. The new building opened in mid-2011 and was called the Brooklyn Building. After Steve's passing, the original Pixar building was renamed The Steve Jobs Building in his honor.
