― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Saturday, 31 January 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link
*does nothing for an hour*
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 31 January 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
― sucka (sucka), Saturday, 31 January 2004 23:28 (twenty years ago) link
Favourite myth about computer animation, as attempted in a badly edited end-of-the-evening-news report:
Animator Woman: Computer animation is so much quicker, I can just move this over here in a few seconds. If we'd been painting this film on cels, it would have taken months.Narrator: In total, Finding Nemo took 6 years to make...
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― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 1 February 2004 13:47 (twenty years ago) link
and i like the 3d modelling thing they do these days (everything machanical in Belleville for instance, Futurama's spaceships and buildings) where they 3d model various bits and incorporate them / make them look like more traditional 2d animation. without this things tend to change shape when going around corners and that always used to bug me.
> who, other than animation-heads, gives a crap about animated shorts oscars?
people who are interested in what'll win the animated feature award in a couple of years time? people interested in the new animation techniques that are coming through? the short is where people tend to try out things, it's a testing ground. and that's more interesting to me than, say, another jack nicholson movie 8)
andy
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From the man who brought you NeXT.
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Tom, mail me at the below address. I can't find your email address in the archives.
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Disney and Pixar: undrop dead. Though then there's this:
IN a subtle but important shift, Pixar has matured, allowing its strategic thinking to evolve inside a sprawling corporation. For instance, some of the studio’s executives once resisted sequels and direct-to-DVD efforts, arguing that quality and the brand could suffer. While sequels were not out of the question, they said Pixar’s hot streak hinged on pushing boundaries with original material.But at Mr. Lasseter’s presentation in April, Disney’s first such event in 10 years, he announced “Cars 2,” a 2012 sequel that will take Lightning McQueen and his pals on a tour of foreign countries. Also in the works are four direct-to-DVD movies built around Tinker Bell.“We are definitely planning on doing more sequels, just as we are more originals,” Mr. Lasseter said in an interview. “We talk with Bob Iger about which ones make sense to do from a business perspective. But each movie has to be absolutely great or you will snuff out a franchise.”And the Pixar team, which also has oversight of Walt Disney Animation Studios and the DVD-focused DisneyToon Studios, decided that it was O.K. to outsource some direct-to-DVD animation to an Indian company, a departure from its rigid stance that outside animators could not deliver the necessary quality. (Mr. Lasseter will still closely monitor the efforts, however.)
But at Mr. Lasseter’s presentation in April, Disney’s first such event in 10 years, he announced “Cars 2,” a 2012 sequel that will take Lightning McQueen and his pals on a tour of foreign countries. Also in the works are four direct-to-DVD movies built around Tinker Bell.
“We are definitely planning on doing more sequels, just as we are more originals,” Mr. Lasseter said in an interview. “We talk with Bob Iger about which ones make sense to do from a business perspective. But each movie has to be absolutely great or you will snuff out a franchise.”
And the Pixar team, which also has oversight of Walt Disney Animation Studios and the DVD-focused DisneyToon Studios, decided that it was O.K. to outsource some direct-to-DVD animation to an Indian company, a departure from its rigid stance that outside animators could not deliver the necessary quality. (Mr. Lasseter will still closely monitor the efforts, however.)
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 31 May 2008 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Also:
In Disney’s case, Pixar was assigned the difficult task of turning around a storied animation department that had fallen into disrepair as it struggled to find its footing in a new world of computer-generated pictures. At a low point, the 2002 film “Treasure Planet” flopped so badly that Disney was forced to take a $98 million write-down.A window into how the rebuilding effort is going will come on Nov. 26, with the release of “Bolt,” the tale of a Hollywood dog star who becomes lost in New York and has to make his way back to California. Mr. Lasseter and his team have heavily reworked the project, including playing up a wickedly funny side character, a hamster.
A window into how the rebuilding effort is going will come on Nov. 26, with the release of “Bolt,” the tale of a Hollywood dog star who becomes lost in New York and has to make his way back to California. Mr. Lasseter and his team have heavily reworked the project, including playing up a wickedly funny side character, a hamster.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 31 May 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
including playing up a wickedly funny side character, a hamster.
played by Jack Black, I suppose.
― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 31 May 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
nope, but it does have miley cyrus and john travolta in it
― abanana, Saturday, 31 May 2008 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm more of a Wallace and Grommit man.
― Aimless, Sunday, 1 June 2008 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
speaking of jack black... "skidoosh!"
― msp, Sunday, 1 June 2008 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I love pixar but I couldn't make it past the first 10 minutes of Cars...
― akm, Sunday, 1 June 2008 05:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i got high hopes for wall-e.
― ledge, Sunday, 1 June 2008 09:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Why did they decide to make a sequel out of one of their poorer efforts? I mean, it is not like they don't have enough amazing movies that you really wish there was more of.
― Jibe, Sunday, 1 June 2008 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm guessing it's for the money.
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 1 June 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
has anyone read the pixar touch? is it good?
― markers, Sunday, 21 April 2013 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Pixar-Touch-Vintage-David-Price/dp/0307278298/
So I guess Pixar's hand was forced to do sequels, but surely they could have come up with something more inspired than Monsters U.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 June 2013 00:29 (ten years ago) link
Pretty long article herehttp://www.wired.com/2014/10/big-hero-6/Thing I had to notice was that chart comparing Pixar to Disney film grosses - notice how Pixar's have gone down while Disney's have increased. Not coincidentally since Pixar has been doing lackluster sequels...
― Nhex, Friday, 7 November 2014 17:31 (nine years ago) link
Didn't know about this:
But it wasn't all bad: While at Disney, Lasseter saw an early computer-animation test for Tron and it blew him away. “It was very simplistic, but a door opened up in my head and there was this incredible world beyond it,” he says. “I kept thinking, ‘This was what Walt was waiting for.’” Lasseter started an animation test—hand-drawn characters in computer-generated backgrounds—and began developing an idea for a computer-animated feature about forgotten appliances at a summer cabin waiting for their owner to return. Lasseter pitched the idea to the top brass. It was rejected. “The only reason we'd do computer animation,” Lasseter was told, “is if it was cheaper or faster.” Immediately after the meeting, he was summoned to the office of the manager of the animation department and told he was out of a job.Lasseter was mortified. “My entire self-identity, even as a little kid, was based on this dream of working at Disney,” he says. “It just was so crushing to be fired from the place of your dreams.” He didn't tell anyone that he'd been let go—not even his wife, Nancy. Instead, he said that he'd quit to pursue computer animation. (It wasn't until Disney bought Pixar, more than 20 years later, that Lasseter finally admitted the truth.)
Lasseter was mortified. “My entire self-identity, even as a little kid, was based on this dream of working at Disney,” he says. “It just was so crushing to be fired from the place of your dreams.” He didn't tell anyone that he'd been let go—not even his wife, Nancy. Instead, he said that he'd quit to pursue computer animation. (It wasn't until Disney bought Pixar, more than 20 years later, that Lasseter finally admitted the truth.)
― Nhex, Friday, 7 November 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
With Lasseter in charge of the entire animation division now, it seems like there's been a slow transformation of the main studio into the new Pixar.
― I'm In The Mood To Munch! (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 November 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
Exactly - this article's the first time I'm hearing it explictly
― Nhex, Friday, 7 November 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
assumed this was about this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/29947502
Toy Story 4 is a go....if they do it well I suppose that's fine (and I have a hard time believing Lasseter would let anyone fuck this particular franchise up) but still.
― akm, Friday, 7 November 2014 18:12 (nine years ago) link
but still what?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 November 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
I wish all film series would replicate the Toy Story formula re: increasing qualitative returns.
― I'm In The Mood To Munch! (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 November 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Haha, nice scare quotes - 'exciting' new filmman, maybe Pixar is just getting stretched too thin - Lasseter actually directing TS4 himself too
― Nhex, Friday, 7 November 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
TS 2 was poor though.
Discounting TS3, Pixar's last great film was Ratatouille, 2007.
This run of Cars 2, Brave, Monsters U and Nemo 2 has been terrible in comparison to Disney's very good run of Tangled, Wreck it Ralph, Frozen.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Friday, 7 November 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
...nobody take the bait there
― Nhex, Friday, 7 November 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
I liked Finding Nemo 2, myself. The characters were much more thoroughly developed this time around and, although I thought all of the hardcore fucking was going to put me off, it really worked in context.
― I'm In The Mood To Munch! (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 November 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
I actually agree! Ralph and Tangles are great, seeing the new one tonight. I still think Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc and Toy Story 2 were peaks. Rest sort of a scramble, save Nemo 2, which was amazing and surprisingly hot, for fish.
Anyway, it's not a coincidence that as soon as Lasseter ported over from Pixar to Disney proper, Disney movies starting getting better and Pixar started getting shaky. It's telling that Pixar postponed a bunch of stuff; I believe we are in the middle of the longest gap with no Pixar films.
What is Brad Bird up to?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 November 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
his neck in lawsuits
― Pict in a blanket (WilliamC), Friday, 7 November 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
(j/k)
(Also some "Teen Wolf" vibes.)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 21:40 (two years ago) link
whole lotta dreamworks face in that trailer
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
trailer is manic af
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link
This is the one set in my old Toronto neighbourhood! Can't wait to see it. The short by the same director was a lot mellower, hopefully this was just trailer'd up
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:37 (two years ago) link
I literally lived opposite this house!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FEZ0WZqWYAkpX6H?format=jpg
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link