Print and broadcast media have explored Ozark culture broadly. Books set in the Ozarks include Where the Red Fern Grows, The Shepherd of the Hills and As a Friend. The 1999 film Ride with the Devil, based on the book Woe to Live On, depicts warfare in Southwest Missouri during the Civil War.
The late story artist Joe Ranft is named a Disney Legend. The Walt Disney Company announces that it has agreed to purchase Pixar Animation Studios. Ed Catmull and John Lasseter also assume leadership of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Disney Pixar uses a mixture a Autodesk Maya and Pixar Renderman for their work. Maya for the modeling and animation, Renderman for the rendering of the animation out. These piâ¦eces of software are the industry standard, also, for computer aided special effects.