Why is Pixar paying for animated pieces of Robots?

The prices represent how much they have to pay their designers to create each piece. More complex pieces take longer to make, so cost more.

why would they need to pay instead of creating them thereselves

Because each of their editors need to be paid somehow. It's no good applying for a job at Pixar if everything you do there is for free.

how do you create different things?

By thinking how to write program creatively and try to make it better.

if there making the movies why do they have to buy the peices

When you refer to Company as they. It includes people who are paid to do the pieces.

how long does it take to make and finish making a whole crowd

Quite a while. You need a lot of different combinations.

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Welcome to Crowds!

In this topic we'll explore how swarms of robots were created for WALL-E using combinatorics.

This topic contains two lessons:

Lesson 1: Building crowds

Appropriate for grades 4-7
Use combinations to create your own cast of robots of a given size

Lesson 2: Counting crowds

Appropriate for the high school level
Explore how combinations and permutations leads us to the binomial coefficient when casting scenes

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does this method apply to animation too?
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