Pixar has posted the first full-length trailer online for Brave, which you can also watch on the big screen if you go see The Muppets. Given that everything Pixar creates is something special… What is Brave, and what’s it about? Read more »
What happens when Disney/Pixar’s Cars is mashed up with twelve famous movie and TV vehicles? Click through to find out. Read more »
I know a lot of people aren’t looking forward to Cars 2 as much as they do other Pixar films. And for good reason: Cars is primarily a franchise aimed at little boys. That said, I think the movie looks like a blast, what with its globe-trotting spy angle and another trademark Pixar eccentric cast of characters. Disney has released pictures of every character featured in the film, and from the other cars racing against Lightning McQueen in the first-ever World Grand Prix to a huge assortment of spy characters, it’s always fun to see how Pixar uses character design to accentuate that character’s personality. And then there are the Read more »
You don’t get much better than Pixar Animation Studios when it comes to tugging at the heartstrings, and here’s a 5.5 minute video to prove it. The fan-made compilation brings together the most memorable and powerful moments from 25 years of Pixar’s filmmaking, including both its big-screen blockbusters and all those wonderful short films. Read more »
Cars is arguably the best animated motion picture from Disney-Pixar. Who can’t help but love Mater, Luigi, and Guido? Of course, many a kid would go for Lightning McQueen in an instant, but the film is rife with other lovable characters. So, recently, the official announcement for Cars 2 was made, getting every fan out there excited – with June 24 being marked in countless calendars all over the world. The poster was released late last year is cool enough, but the recently released retro posters of the Cars 2 World Grand Prix just blows it away. I saw the four posters at FilmoFilia, and boy, do they look awesome! Read more »
I know what you’re thinking. This must be some official piece of Toy Story 3 artwork, from Pixar and Disney, right? Wrong. Even harder to believe is that it was drawn entirely by hand on an iPad, using an $8 app called Brushes. Granted, it was done by artist extraordinaire Kyle Lambert, who specializes in artwork made using an iPad. But it’s just too good. I wouldn’t believe it myself if not for this video, showing his Lambert’s process (at high speed) from on-screen sketch to finished product. Amazing, right? (And I bet it’s Steve Jobs’ favorite video ever. Talk about corporate synergy.) Head over this way to see more Read more »
Today, the world’s greatest animation studio turns 25 years old. I know — I can’t believe it either. Naturally, this milestone cannot be allowed to pass by without celebration. So put “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” on repeat, because we’re going to take a trip into the past, present, and future of Pixar Animation Studios. 1979 Believe it or not, it started with George Lucas. Before there was a Pixar Animation Studios, there was The Graphics Group, which comprised a full third of the computer-generated-imagery unit at Lucasfilm. The Graphics Group produced the first CGI effects ever used in filmmaking, including the “stained glass knight” in Young Sherlock Holmes Read more »
As the whole world knows, Pixar is the holy grail of animated film. They can do no wrong. Every film they’ve made has been a #1 hit, and an instant classic. But because they have such a reputation for excellence, we never hear about their failures. But as every genius will tell you, brilliance is achieved only on the backs of countless failures. One of Pixar’s failures is a movie called Newt. Newt was announced a few years back as being one of Pixar’s many movies in the pipeline, but since then it’s been canceled for unknown reasons. (My theory: Pixar simply couldn’t make the story live up to its Read more »
This is flipping brilliant. Perhaps inspired by the just-released Toy Story 3 (haven’t seen it yet, don’t spoil it for me) an artist going by the moniker “Sillof” has mashed up Star Wars with Pixar‘s library of characters. And the result, as I said before, is pure brilliance. What’s most surprising about these mixed characters is how easily and logically they come together. It only reinforces the fact that everyone at Pixar is a Star Wars fan, and the archetypal characters in George Lucas’ original trilogy have had tremendous influences on just about every piece of genre fiction of the last three decades. For example, Sillof combines WALL-E with R2-D2 to Read more »
Josh Cooley is a story artist for Pixar Animation Studios. In his spare time, he likes to sketch wildly inappropriate cartoon images, such as the ones he’s compiling into a book called Movies R Fun! An Inappropriate Golden Book. Everybody knows the Golden Books, right? Those illustrated story books for kids based on everything from classic fairy tales to modern kids’ movies? Cooley has taken the idea of Golden Books and turned it into his own playground for re-telling scenes from the kinds of big-screen movies that would scar any youngster for life, but are sure to tickle every geek’s fancy. Click through for the full sampler gallery of images Read more »
