For decades, hordes of eager industry professionals have flocked to SIGGRAPH to check out the latest innovations in CG.
Pixar is a staple of the conference, offering the most up-to-date in rendering technology. Ironically, the biggest lines tend to form for a considerably less high-tech commodity. Eager fans have been queuing each year to get their hands on the latest Walking Teapot, a small wind up toy produced to promote Pixar’s RenderMan product.
The official Facebook page for the much sought after collectible recently posted a silhouette of the 2011 iteration of the teapot. In the image, a landscape from an early CG animation test can be seen. As trends have shown, the teapot will most likely tie-into this year’s Pixar film, so expect to see Cars 2 theming when it’s fully revealed later this month.
Get your hands on your own Walking Teapot at SIGGRAPH 2011, running from August 9-11 in Vancouver, BC.
What do you predict this year’s Walking Teapot will look like?
Last modified: August 4, 2011
It looks like Mike from Monsters Inc!
IS THAT MRS. POTTS? Probably not. I want to know what it looks like. Knowing Pixar, it’s probably an amazing design.
No, it’s from an upcoming Discovery Channel special by Pixar called “Walking With Teapots.”
By the way, the teapot was a standard computer tool long before Pixar. Pixar didn’t creat it and doesn’t own it at all. It’s 100% public domain.
Nobody said Pixar created the teapot. The Walking Teapot, as opposed to the Utah Teapot famous for its role in early computer graphics, is PIxar’s take on the iconic design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
And the Utah teapot is based on the MIT Teapot.
What I meant by “KNOWING PIXAR—”
is stuff that has to do with pixar. If that makes any sence.