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'''Visuals:''' On a black background, there is a gray square with four circles in red, green, blue, and gray below it. Suddenly, a white light hovers over them, making them 3-D. The circles then turn into spheres. A circle zooms in on the square, and the four spheres zoom out. The word "{{Font|Times New Roman|P · I · X · A · R}}" fades in with each sphere in between each letter.

* On the 1989 party video, there is a triumphant majestic fanfare followed by a voiceover (Pixar employee Craig Good) remarking "The 1989 Christmas Video, brought to you by Pixar. Nobody knows exactly what it is we do, but they know we do it better than anyone in the world."

* November 19, 1995-June 29, 2007: On a light blue background is the text "{{Font|Times New Roman|P I X A R}}" in a spaced-out Charlemagne Bold face (the "{{Font|Times New Roman|X}}" and the "{{Font|Times New Roman|R}}" appear to overlap the floor). A desk lamp (Luxo Jr.) hops in from the right side of the screen and stops once he notices the "I" on the left side. He shakes his body and bounces on the "I" four times before squishing it. He looks around as the text "{{font|Times New Roman|ANIMATION STUDIOS}}" (set in Centaur) fades in underneath the letters "A" and "R". He then faces the camera (presumably in embarrassment or to copy the "I") before the logo fades out.

* On ''Toy Story 4'' and at the end of ''Onward'', ''Lightyear'' (2D versions), and ''Soul'', "{{font|Times New Roman|ANIMATION STUDIOS}}" is already formed while the logo plays as normal.

* On ''Pixar's 20th Anniversary Special'', when the lamp has squished the I, we can see "{{font|Times New Roman|CELEBRATING 20 YEARS}}".

** Starting in 2008, the closing variant has the text "{{font|Times New Roman|ANIMATION STUDIOS}}" fade in a little later than the opening logo.

'''Technique:''' CGI by Pixar themselves, who also animated the 1995 Walt Disney Pictures logo. The orginal version of this logo was animated on an SGI Indigo2 Extreme workstation, with the lamp and letters modeled with Alias/Wavefront PowerAnimator and textured with Amazon Paint. It was rendered with PhotoRealistic Renderman on a Sun Microsystems supercomputer with a SPARC processor and recorded to 35mm negative on Management Graphics equipment, with Monaco Labs developing it to reversal. The 2008 version was animated and produced by Pixar employee Gini Cruz Santos, while the 2019 version was animated with the Presto Animation System.

*At the end of the Pixar panel at the 2020 Disney Investor Day, the opening part of the 2016 Marvel Studios fanfare, composed by Michael Giacchino, was heard, transitioning from the generic music, as it continues onto the Marvel Studios panel.

* It also appears on both 3D and even 2D prints of newer shorts, except for ''22 Vs. Earth'' and ''Ciao Alberto'', which use the previous logo instead.