On the 1st of January 2012 I watched 'Pixar: 25 Magic Moments' which was broadcasted on Television http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00x9cdm/Pixar_25_Magic_Moments/http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00x9cdm/Pixar_25_Magic_Moments/.I will be writing about some parts I found interesting and handfuls of information...:)
I think this programme gave a great insight on the Pixar animation studios and how things work around there. The 3 words Tim Allen (June 13, 1953) uses to describe Pixar: ''Creative, inventive and fun''. I think this is a great explanation of Pixar and really shows us, in those 3 words, what Pixar is all about. When John Lasseter (January 12, 1957), American animator, director and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios says ''we wanted to be different'' I think they do exactly that. I think Pixar's style in animation IS different and unique. With their great success with Toy Story, Pixar then had to work on what their next film would be...then came 'A Bug's Life'. Lee Unkrich (August 8, 1967), Supervising film editor for 'A Bug's Life described how they attached a little camera at the end of a stick and saw what would be an ants perspective of nature...''Research was literally done in our backyard'' John Lasseter. I was surprised when I heard that because the footage did look as if they travelled far and wide to receive such footage. Then in 2009 they brought us Pixar's Up (2009), My personal favorite film :) as described, the scene where the house begins to lift off was such a nice and calm scene showing the house flowing up into the sky where the adventure begins.
As we all know, John Lasseter is the Chief creative officer of Pixar and was the first to work at Pixar. After him Andrew Stanton ( December 3, 1965), the writer/director of 'Finding Nemo' was hired and soon after Pete Docter (October 9, 1968), director of Monsters Inc. and my favorite film Up. I never knew Billy Crystal (March 14, 1948), the voice of Mike Wazowski-‘Monsters Inc.’ (2001) turned down an offer from Toy Story (1995), and then got a call form John Lasseter's assistent about Monsters Inc. You learn something new everyday! :) I think the relationship between Sully and Mike is awesome. You can see that their the best of friends and it shows that through the film I mean they live together and that kind of shows a lot. In 2003 we got Finding Nemo. Andrew Stanton the writer/director of Finding Nemo (2003) described how he is with HIS son, all those restrictions etc and so he interpreted that into Finding Nemo through 'Marvin' and 'Nemo' which shows the typical father and son 'bond'. When it comes to storyboards, it takes Pixar about two and a half years. When it came to Toy Story and the storyboard, Woody was seen as the 'bad' character and was quite off-putting so it gave them time to experiment around and change 'Woody's' character as well as his personality.
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