The photo was shot f 1 . 8 1500 50 mm ISO 250 and then edited in Adobe Lightroom . <| sep |> That ' s not really the reason they cancelled it . According to the book Creativity , Inc . there was a lot more that went into the cancellation than just that . That ' s the reason they gave , and I think they gave that reason so investors wouldn ' t get scared . The real reason it got cancelled was because it was an experiment . See , Pixar had a system . A system for creating movies that had been working for 15 or so years previously . So , they kept asking themselves Why do we have this system that works ? Is it is ? Or can we create an environment that ' s the same from scratch ? So , they took their best team and their best concept and put them in another building off the main Pixar campus , hoping that they would create a team of storytellers that could compare to the top minds at the main Pixar HQ , essentially replicating the events that lead to Pixar ' s greatness in the first place . But , evidentially . it didn ' t work . They keep falling back onto certain habits , and the story failed to progress . Ultimately , the experiment was a failure and they axed it . Now , to deviate for a moment , I believe that this is the reason Cars 2 was NOT cancelled . Investors would have gone crazy if they cancelled 2 films due to story issues . particularly two that are lined up backtoback on the schedule . So , they had the choice to cancel the completely new Newt or the guaranteed money maker Cars 2 . As a business decision , they went with Cars 2 and Newt was cancelled . The book , oddly , said nothing about the similarity to Rio . It ' s also a pretty flimsy reason to cancel a film .