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>  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.

A more general reason is that people rarely bother to credit authors. When 
they do, they go for the most famous (and known to them) name in the field. 
That's why so many interesting quotes are attributed to celebrities rather 
than to their actual but obscure authors.

Photoshop is a case of genericized trademark, like Xerox or Heroin. It's a 
related phenomenon but people are not (yet) saying "I'm going to see a 
pixar" instead of "I'm going to see a CG animated movie". Of course some 
people will fall for it, otherwise these folks 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%ADdeo_Brinquedo wouldn't be in business.

G.

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