Pixar Cars & One Man Band
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Poster For Pixar’s Animated Feature Cars

Finally seen Pixar’s latest film Cars, directed by John Lassetter, in fantastic digital format at The Light Vue Cinema. After the initial disappointment of the first teaser trailer, I am pleased to say that Pixar have come up with the goods yet again. Oh, apart from the exception of Jeremy Clarkson as the voice of Lightning McQueen’s agent. I wish directors wouldn’t insist on using localised celebrity voice talent for each country. It instantly shatters the illusion. I’ll definitely be buying the original US version of the DVD. Look out for the hilarious tractor tipping scene and the equally superb end credits.


Screenshot From The Short Film One Man Band

As a bonus, the new short film One Man Band written and directed by Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews was also shown before the main film. The film has a beautiful European style, somewhat of a departure for Pixar and has a nice simple storyline with well developed characters.

Cars CG Society Article
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CG Society’s Road Trip Article


Wireframe, Diffuse and Occlusion/Reflection Render Layers From Cars

Click Here to view the CG Society article detailing Pixar’s Production Focus on Cars

Ratatouille Teaser Trailer
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Screenshot from Pixar’s film Ratatouille

Ratatouille Teaser Trailer now available to download from the Apple Quicktime trailer site in excellent HD quality. Pixar’s latest film directed by Brad Bird. Release date Summer 2007.

Pixar Art of Cars
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The Art of Cars
by Michael Wallis


Example Page From The Art of Cars

Another excellent ‘art of’ book from Pixar. Included are many examples of pre-production sketches, maquette sculpts, animation thumbnails, digital paintings and digital renders amongst others. The book also includes fascinating development insights from some of the key artists and animators at Pixar.

Puffs Tissues Commercials
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Screenshots From US Commercial For Puffs Tissues

US commercials for Puffs Tissues. Similar style to The Sandman as the characters were also created by Mackinnon and Saunders the people behind the film.

Pixar Cars Teaser Trailer
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Screenshot From Cars Trailer

First look at Pixar’s latest film entitled Cars.

The quicktime teaser trailer is quite disappointing for Pixar. I think this is down to the rather flat middle section of the trailer. I have faith though, that Pixar will deliver, as usual, a visually stunning feature film.

Wallace and Gromit Trailer
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Curse of the Were-Rabbit Screenshot

New feature length stop motion animation Teaser Trailer for
Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit by Aardman and Dreamworks.


Stop-Motion Animator Andy Symanowski With Nick Park

Featurette for the movie. Andy Symanowski (shown in red and grey t-shirt alongside Nick Park) was on my animation degree course at the Surry Institute of Art and Design (now UCA Farnham). He has also worked on Chicken Run, Wallace and Gromit: Cracking Contraptions and Rex the Runt.

Pixar Digital Artist
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Website for Pixar digital artist – Suzanne Slatcher
Suzanne was on my animation degree course at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design (now UCA Farnham) and has been lucky enough to work on Ratatouille, Cars, The Incredibles and Finding Nemo.

Her website can be found here

Corpse Bride Trailer
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Screenshot From Corpse Bride Trailer

New Quicktime trailer for Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride. Download here

The film initially looks CGI but is stop motion (thankfully). One of the main reasons for this is down to new filming techniques. Canon Digital SLR cameras were utilised instead of 35mm film and was edited on Apple Macs in Final Cut Pro.

The look is also down to the ability to fine tune facial expressions instead of using head replacements. This is due to the minaturisation of mechanical gears.
Models and sets created by Mackinnon and Saunders in Manchester UK.

The film was created at Three Mills Studios in London.

DVD now available here from Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com

New Domain Name Registration
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It has been taken for years, but I finally managed to register the andywhiteley.co.uk domain name with UKReg.co.uk This will redirect to my .com domain name.

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