"Within these pages, a menagerie of sketches, knickknacks, rendered scenes, and cherished insider photos illustrate a series of short essays that recount the personal side of Pixar's history"--Slipcase

• Introduction: "Inspiration surrounds us"
• Aspirations: "People make cartoons for a living?"
• Education: "Learning from each other"
• Traditions: "The sorcerer's apprentices"
• Technical experiments: "Making it up as we go"
• Personality: "The inanimate brought to life"
• The brain trust: "Greater than the sum of its parts"
• Toy Story: "If a toy were alive, what would it want?"
• A Bug's Life: "Seeing smaller worlds"
• Toy Story 2: "A family of characters"
• Monsters, Inc.: "Making the fantastic believable"
• Pixar Animation Studios: "A home away from home"
• Wild workspaces: "Cartoonists are really big kids"
• Teamwork: "Animation is the most collaborative medium"
• Family: "We worked hard, but we had fun"
• Storytelling: "The search for entertainment"
• Character animation: "Making it look effortless"
• Finding Nemo: "Overcoming fear"
• The Incredibles: "Using your special gifts"
• Short subjects: "Filmmakers in training"
• Pixar University: "Investing in people"
• Exhibitions: "A traveling collection"
• Cars: "The journey is the reward"
• Ratatouille: "Following your passion"
• WALL-E: "Irrational love defies life's programming"
• Pixarland: "Great movies make great rides"
• Up: "Taking the past forward"
• Legacy: "Inspiring future generations"