The Denver Post has an article on, John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Feature Animation and Pixar. The article looks at how John works, and how he’s coping at Pixar and at Disney now he is Chief Creative Officer. The article has quotes from Jim Morris, Brad Bird and Lee Unkrich, as they talk about John’s work ethic.
“I love this stuff,” he said later, reflecting on the 60-year-old Goofy drawings and the animation division’s new logo, a short scene from “Steamboat Willie.” “We want to look back and look forward at the same time. This stuff lasts forever, every single movie. ‘Dumbo’ gets me every time. That moment when, at the same time, their trunks are touching? Long after I am gone they will make audiences cry.” Lasseter talks a lot about making audiences cry. “John will go straight to as much emotion as possible,” said Lee Unkrich, the director of the recently announced “Toy Story 3” from Pixar. “It can become sappy.” But as much as Buzz Lightyear had Woody, Lasseter has a creative foil in Andrew Stanton, whom Unkrich described as having “a more biting way.”
says the article. Have a read, it is quite interesting.
Last modified: March 3, 2007