Designing With Pixar by John Lasseter

45 Activities to Create Your Own Characters and Stories

A practical, idea-driven guide that translates the studio’s creative principles into lessons for designers and storytellers, showing how character-first thinking, clear visual storytelling, playful iteration, disciplined craft, and close teamwork combine to solve design challenges and evoke emotion; it emphasizes sketching and prototyping, learning from failure, and the importance of empathy, timing, and simplicity to create memorable, human-centered work.