Was going to initially repond that is probably the first case you give but 
after actually searching for "pixar" on youtube it appears to be the latter. 
I found one person uploaded Victor Navone's Dancing Alien and called it 
"Pixar- i will survive". Although he was eventually hired by Pixar he did 
that as an amateur using Animation Master. Then there is one called "Pixar 
Ice Egg" which appears to be a take on the Ice Age character Scrat, which is 
Blue Sky, not Pixar!

On one hand they appear to be using Pixar's name to garner views, but on the 
other hand many of these videos are not being uploaded by the original 
artists.


"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message 
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>  I just noticed an odd trend:
>
>  Make a youtube (or google videos) search for "pixar". Half the results
> will be computer animations which are cearly *not* made by Pixar nor in
> any way related to them. (They don't have the Pixar logo, they are not
> mentioned anywhere in the Pixar filmography, and their quality is crappy
> compared to the average Pixar animation quality.)
>
>  Most egregiously, Pixar does only 100% CGI animations (Wall-E being
> the first exception, and even in there the amount of live footage was
> really small), yet there are many sequences out there of live action
> movies with CGI effects which are claimed to be made by Pixar. For an
> example, make a google search for "kung pow pixar".
>
>  (Ok, Pixar has done some live action + CGI shorts for commercials,
> but those are also clearly listed in their filmography.)
>
>  I can think of two reasons why someone would use the name "pixar" in
> conjunction with such a CGI animation:
>
> 1) They are faking the origins of the animation in order to get more views
>   and more popularity.
>
> 2) Like the word "photoshop" in the world of image editing, the word 
> "pixar"
>   has somehow got the general meaning of "computer graphics animation" for
>   some people, who erroneously use it as a synonym for it.
>
> -- 
>                                                          - Warp

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