Microsoft and Pixar partnered to produce a proof-of-concept that would make Pixar’s industry standard rendering software available in the cloud. The application needed to be built quickly, in time to share at Microsoft’s PDC 2010 conference so they asked us to help with the design. Our primary goal with this project was to capture the minimal and friendly aesthetic of Pixar but still produce a rich interface that captured the depth of the product they were creating.
You can read some initial press coverage. Also, this project finally left the proof-of-concept phase. You can read about that here.