Harry McCracken goes inside Pixar and tells everyone about it on his site, Harry-Go-Round.
He says…
On Saturday night, San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum held a benefit at Pixar in Emeryville. Once again, I was in attendance—and once again, I had a good time.
He says that they showed a brief trailer for Cars, but that was all about the film they saw that night. He also says that the most of the presentation was done by Michael Johnson who works for Pixar and is also a board member at the museum. He talked about both Pixar’s film-making process and its perspective on the world.
Here are some tidbits from the article on what Johnson said…
* The DVD editions of Pixar movies are produced at the same time as theater ones, and are actually separate renderings composed for a TV’s aspect ratio. “We do it because we can.”
* Random quote: “We don’t want real-looking humans—they’re kind of creepy…reality is just a useful measure of complexity.”
* Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton like to work with a traditional movie script; “John Lasseter, not so much.”
*Pixar does want to make some sequels to its films, and that the studio, which is still a fairly small operation, will likely grow.
*Ed Catmull and John Lasseter have no plans to leave Northern California, but will likely spend a couple of days a week in LA.
He also that they watched One Mand Band, Pixar’s latest short film to be released with Cars. Then they heard from co-director Mark Andrews and animator Angus McLane, and then they saw the short again.
And that about wrapped the night up.
Last modified: March 3, 2006