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They also seem to be a very personal and humble company:
* There's [http://betteronme.blogspot.com/2008/07/hello-luxo.html the case] of the young woman who put a video of herself crying at a trailer of ''[[WALL-E]]'' on the Internet, which tickled the employees to the point where they invited her first to the wrap party, then to a tour, [[Think Nothing of It|without promoting this with any sort of "Look, world, we're awesome!" publicity]].
* Then there's 10-year old Colby Curtin, a young girl who was dying of vascular cancer; her dying wish was to see the movie ''[[Up (animation)|Up]]'', so a family friend cold-called Pixar, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130105030044/http://wwwwww2.ocregister.com/articles/pixar-up-movie-2468059-home-show which eventually led to them flying out an employee with a specially-pressed DVD for a private screening of the film] just hours before the young girl passed away. Again, Pixar did this [[Humble Hero|without any promotion or comments to the press]] in any way. This simple event is simultaneously selfless and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]].
* They did a beautiful video for the ''It Gets Better'' project that really shows the diversity of their staff and their commitment to helping the community.
* Some Pixar employees visited Jason Segel and Nick Stoller for a few days and gave input on the screenplay for ''[[The Muppets (film)|The Muppets]]'', which became a hit.