Pixar provided the Wall Street Journal with a new still from The Blue Umbrella. I like the photo realism in this rendering. A post on the Walt Disney Studios blog also revealed the official plot synopsis: It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the…
Patrick Giusiano, currently an animator at Blue Sky studios, previously had the opportunity to work on Disney’s John Carter while working at Double Negative — a digital effects studio. While working with Director Andrew Stanton and Pixar’s artistic supervision team, Giusiano proposed shots and acting choices to Stanton. These animation…
Disney animator Jamaal Bradley (alas, now at Dreamworks) created a video to show how a scene comes together. In this case a snippet of “Mama Knows Best” from Rapunzel is first shown in final render, then broken down step by step to show the process used when creating a shot….
Last Monday Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science hosted the Marc Davis Lecture, which this year was a panel talk. Among the panelists was John Lasseter who spoke on the future of animation. One of my favorite quotes from the night was Lasseter’s insistence that art is not dependent…
Disney has released three new images from Pixar’s Brave. As in the previous stills you can really see the artistry and the talent that went into lighting and modeling each scene. Love it. Check’em out below the jump:
It’s not so easy to be like Pixar. The digitial effects house that Terminator 2: Judgment Day built, is finding private investment offers more appealing than IPO prospects. Whether that means there’s not enough interest for a decent IPO or that the private offers are really really good depends on the…