Eve, WALL-E’s love interest, marks the first design collaboration between Apple and Pixar. A call from Andrew Stanton to Steve Jobs in 2005 resulted in Johnny Ive, Apple designer, spending a day consulting on the Eve prototype.

“I wanted Eve to be high-end technology – no expense spared – and I wanted it to be seamless and for the technology to be sort of hidden and subcutaneous,” Andrew Stanton, Wall-E’s director, told Fortune. “The more I started describing it, the more I realized I was pretty much describing the Apple playbook for design.”

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