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 [...]
Art From a Pixar Movie That Will Never Be
Posted on September 3, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Star Wars Pixar
Posted on June 23, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
The Inappropriate Golden Book
Posted on May 21, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Car guts
Posted on April 29, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
My 2-year-old son is obsessed with the movie Cars. Obsessed, I tell you! While surfing the net for pictures of Lightning McQueen, I stumbled across this little oddity. An illustrator named Jake Parker wondered how the insides of one of Pixar’s cars might work, considering that these vehicles are “strange machine/flesh hybrids,” in Parker’s own words. [...]