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Walt Disney's Pixar Animation Studios has eliminated 75 positions including those of two executives behind box office flop Lightyear in what are the the first significant job cuts at the studio in a decade.

The cuts included Lightyear director Angus MacLane, a 26-year animator who was part of the senior creative team on such acclaimed films as Toy Story 4 and Coco.

Michael Agulnek, Pixar's vice-president of worldwide publicity since 2015, was also laid off. Also departing the studio is Galyn Susman, a producer on Lightyear.

Susman had been at Pixar since the release of the original Toy Story movie in 1995 and was hailed as a hero at the company after she was found to have a backup of the film Toy Story 2 on her home computer when the company mistakenly wiped its own version off its servers while the film was in the early stages of production. 

The story was revealed last year in a tweet: 'Someone at Pixar deleted all of Toy Story 2 and the backup hadn't worked for a month, and the only reason we saw that movie was b/c someone on maternity leave had a copy of it on her home computer. Her name is Galyn Susman and she is now the producer for the new Lightyear movie!' 

An error had been made with a system commonly used to clear unwanted files but by mistake the server began deleting files that were actively being used.

Oren Jacob, Pixar's former chief technical officer explained how someone likely ran the command 'at the root level of the project and the system was recursively tracking down through the file structure and deleting its way out like a worm eating its way out from the core of an apple.'

'He [producer Larry Cutler] looked at the

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