We're going with the former proximal cause, that the influx of Pixar people to Disney caused the change in Disney eras. Coincidences are coincidences, but that's simply too big of one. When you boil it all down, though, the Disney Revival was due to an unlikely cause: Computer-Generated Imagery ("CGI"). However, CGI was an indirect cause: Pixar was the more direct one. It pays to go through this in some detail, because this sequence of events is at the core of today's animation industry and represents an epochal upheaval in the industry.
Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the computer division of Lucasfilm. Thus, there is a "Star Wars" connection there. Pixar was spun-out from Lucasfilm as its own corporation in 1986 with funding by Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, who became Pixar's majority shareholder. Originally just a special effects firm, Pixar eventually began making entire films itself.
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