[dill_day]

Many great films are made on a fraction of the budget required to produce something like Toy Story. And anyway I don't think it's hard to imagine Pixar artists saying they were more motivated by the pure joy of creating something than by their paychecks. There are bad movies that are created specifically to be monetized -- that people need money is beside the point that often those who create the really good stuff are probably doing it more for fun than for money. I think I see what you're saying, but it seems like an overreaction to what didn't strike me as a controversial comment by the parent.

[SoftwareMaven]

If that were true, there would be other movies like Toy Story, but "open".

[nja]

Well, it isn't quite as long, but http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/ was pretty good in terms of quality.

[matt_e]

That project had a budget of about EUR150k and artists were paid.