Toy Story 3 Released In UK Today
After refraining from watching any trailers, searching for pre-renders and taking a hiatus from following Lee Unkrich on twitter I can only presume that Toy Story 3 will be the must see film of the year and will be booking IMAX 3D tickets as soon as possible.
The Art of Toy Story 3
by Charles Solomon
A new book in Pixar’s excellent ‘art of’ series is now availiable to order.
UP
Dir: Pete Docter
Pixar’s latest film Up is released on Blu-ray today in the UK. I was looking forward to seeing this as I missed it at the cinema. Written and directed by Monsters Inc. director and veteran Toy Story animator Pete Docter Also includes Pixar’s latest animated short Partly Cloudy
An interesting section in the making of documentary, describes how the story department fleshed out Carl and Ellie’s developing relationship. One idea shows them trading ’punches’ throughout the years to gain one-upmanship over each other! The idea was unsurprisingly discarded as the ‘cross your heart’ concept was deemed more prominent. It just shows that Pixar develop their stories to the full, exploring every possible avenue, while going through many rewrites before deciding on the final draft.
Monsters Inc.
Dir: Pete Docter
Finally, released today in the UK, Monsters Inc. on Blu-ray.
Includes full DTS-HD uncompressed sound.
Production Still From Pixar’s Short Film Partly Cloudy
Where do delivery storks get their babies from? This question is the basis of Partly Cloudy, the new short animated film by Pixar. The story features a stork called Peck who handles various dangerous baby animals sculptured by Gus the insecure grey cloud. Keeping with tradition, the short will be shown in cinemas proir to UP.
The CGsociety Article entitled Sky-High Talent introduces production artist Peter Sohn as a short film director at Pixar.
Screenshot From Pixar’s New UP Trailer. Character Based on Kirk Douglas?
Quite a few items in this post as Pixar ramps up marketing for the film. The first half of the trailer features scenes that have been shown in the previous trailers although, in the second half we are treated to some new unseen footage. The above screenshot illustrates the excellent use of Subsurface Scattering on the characters skin. Watch the UP Trailer 3 HD
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UP Posters of Carl Fredricksen, Russell and Dug the Dog
Also, new out are three high resolution posters to promote the film. One for the main character Carl Fredricksen, one for the boy explorer Russell (who I hope doesn’t become too annoying) and the other for Dug the talking dog. You’ll see how they got around the talking part in the trailer. UP is the first Pixar film to be released in Disney Digital 3-D and will be released in UK theatres on 16th October 2009.
The Art of UP
by Tim Hauser
The latest book in the excellent ‘art of’ series is now availiable.
WALL.E Wins Best Animated Feature
Octapodi Just Loses Out On An Oscar
WALL.E deservedly received an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, but my favourites, Pixar’s Presto and Octapodi by students at Gobelins L’ecole de L’Image lose out in Best Short Film (Animated) category.
WALL.E
Dir: Andrew Stanton
Released today in the UK, WALL.E on Blu-ray which features some great extras, including Pixar’s latest great animated shorts Presto and BURN.E
One of the most facinating extras on the disc is the part where the director, Andrew Stanton totally re-writes the ending (the switch between WALL.E and EVE) and due to his ‘gut feeling’ has the whole team doing their bit till all hours of the morning to get the film finished in time for the cinema release.
Screenshot From The Film UP
From what I have seen, UP looks amazing, especially as is it Pixar’s first feature film to be shown in Disney Digital 3-D View the Quicktime Trailer 2 in HD 1080p.
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