Pixar

Many of you know that I like Pixar Movies, but let me explain why. Pixar is a company that uses 3d animation program called Renderman to make there movies. Renderman is a program that Pixar created. Anyway, they put extensive time and effort into making all of these characters and objects into a movie so that it looks real.






All of the Pixar movies to date look just like the real thing, except for the people in the Incredibles, but that is because they are super heroes. A company such as Pixar has to make there movie so that people will believe them. They have to make the movies so that the people look at the movie and story line, and not the animation. Now this personally makes it very hard for me because I like to watch movies for 3 reasons, first is to see what special effects are in the movie, to get ideas for what I may want to do in the future, and second for the story line. When a movie such ad Pixars recent Wall-E, is done well, it makes it very hard for me to focus on the animation. I tend to focus on the story line instead of the animation. It takes me 3 or 4 times before I start to pay attention to all of the special effects and 3d animation.



Now I personally like 3d animation. And when I finally look at the movies at an animation stand point, they always impress me. The complexity of the scenes is just amazing. I personally have done a little bit of 3d animation which you can see on my website, but I have not ever done anything as complex as what Pixar has done.



Another thing that impresses me about Pixar is that they always try something new. In Finding Nemo for instance, they learned and implemented the idea and ability to make a scene look like it was underwater. The water in Finding Nemo looks so much like real water that if you did not know it was 3d animated, you would have no clue that it was not real. Another example is in Monsters Inc. Sulleys hair was, from what I understand very hard to make look real and move correctly. They had to build a separate gravitational field in order to accomplish this.



Pixar is also very creative, they like to put objects from other shows into there movies. For instance, the Pizza truck form Toy Story has appeared in every movie since Toy Story 2. To see a full list of these instances, click here.



To this date, Pixar has made 9 full length movies. Toy Story, Bugs Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WALL-E along with many short films including For The Birds, Jack Jack Attack, and the most recent Presto and Bern-E (Bern-E will be released with Wall-E the DVD).



Since Pixar puts so much time and effort into all of there movies, they have to start them many years in advanced. Pixar has 6 Upcoming movies between now and 2012. Those movies are

Up (2009),



Toy Story 3 (2010)




Newt (2011)




The Bear and the Bow (2011)




Cars 2 (2012)




John Carter of Mars (Before 2012). No Picture Available

It looks like Pixar has a lot of work on there hands.