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Feb
15
2010
UP Blu-Ray UK Release
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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

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.

Jul
27
2009
Monsters Inc. Released On Blu-Ray
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Monsters Inc.
Dir: Pete Docter

Finally, released today in the UK, Monsters Inc. on Blu-Ray.
Includes full DTS-HD uncompressed sound.

Apr
19
2009
Pixar Short Film: Partly Cloudy
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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.

Mar
09
2009
Pixar’s New UP Trailer 3 and New Posters
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Pixar’s UP Trailer 3 on YouTube.


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

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.

Mar
08
2009
Pixar The Art of UP
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The Art of UP
by Tim Hauser

The latest book in the excellent ‘art of’ series is now availiable.

Feb
23
2009
Animation At The Oscar’s
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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.

Nov
24
2008
WALL.E Blu-Ray UK Release
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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.

Nov
08
2008
Pixar UP Trailer 2 HD
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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.

Jul
23
2008
The Pixar Story Documentary
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Poster For The Pixar Story

The Pixar Story documentary now showing in the UK on Sky Movies Family, Channel 305.

Jul
18
2008
WALL.E Released In Cinemas Today
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Poster For Pixar’s Film WALL.E


Screenshot From For Pixar’s Short Film Presto

Pixar’s latest feature film WALL.E is released in cinemas today.

I was a little sceptical when the teaser trailer was first released, although as it turns out, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Oh except for Pixar’s first Nuke The Fridge moment. My jaw hit the floor as cheesy live action (yes, live action) was used to portray the utopian humans aboard the Axiom, very out of character for Pixar. The reasoning behind this is that Andrew Stanton wanted the humans to be in keeping with the Hello Dolly sequence.

As always, Pixar screened their latest animated short before the main film, entitled Presto which as it turns out, is one of the funniest shorts Pixar has created.

Interesting CG Society article on WALL.E entitled The Little Robot That Could covering Pixar’s CG character creation and modeling methods. There’s also an article covering Presto entitled Chaos Theory Behind Pixar’s Presto

Click Here to watch the WALL.E HD 1080p Quicktime Trailers.

The entire WALL.E script is available to download in .pdf format here

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