{"id":2947,"date":"2010-04-23T22:24:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T22:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/woodys-news-round-up-042310"},"modified":"2010-04-23T22:24:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T22:24:43","slug":"woodys-news-round-up-042310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/woodys-news-round-up-042310\/","title":{"rendered":"Woody&#039;s News Round-Up! (04\/23\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1070.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"81\" width=\"114\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1070.jpg\" style=\"width: 114px; height: 81px;\" \/><\/a>The following headlines probably deserve their own posts, but when the Pixar news pipeline becomes&nbsp;severely backed up, this is what has to be done. Welcome to&nbsp;the latest installment of <strong>Woody&#8217;s News Round-Up<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>&bull; Reporters Fly in for Aviator Mater:<\/strong> During the press conference at Pixar Canada&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/pixar-canada-now-open-for-business\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grand opening last Tuesday<\/a>,&nbsp;Creative Director Dylan Brown <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qpI7hkSDJgQ&#038;feature=player_embedded\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confided in&nbsp;a small group of reporters<\/a>&nbsp;with art from a&nbsp;&quot;top secret&quot; project. When he finally revealed the piece, reporters ignored Brown&#8217;s pleas and their camera flashes started to go off!<\/p>\n<p>The Pixar team seemingly shrugged it off, essentially allowing for the&nbsp;upcoming Cars Toon to be revealed. The short,&nbsp;tentatively titled Aviator Mater,&nbsp;has&nbsp;been hinted at&nbsp;before, but&nbsp;this is&nbsp;the first concept art<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1069.jpg\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"117\" width=\"86\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1069.jpg\" style=\"width: 86px; height: 117px;\" \/><\/a> (click to view larger) from&nbsp;the upcoming aerial&nbsp;tall tale to be publicly revealed. Understandably, Brown stayed mum about any plot specifics. [via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/article-318815\/vancouver\/pixars-first-studio-outside-us-make-short-films-vancouver\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Straight<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>&bull; Not Your Average Movie Based VG:<\/strong> The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/gamesblog\/video\/2010\/apr\/23\/toy-story-3-game-trailer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">exciting&nbsp;trailer<\/a> for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/disney.go.com\/toystory\/#\/products\/video-games\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toy Story 3: The Video Game<\/a>&nbsp;was recently&nbsp;released online! I can&#8217;t go into detail about the latest Pixar interactive experience, but I can say that I had a lot of fun playing it at&nbsp;the studio&nbsp;and meeting the developers from Disney. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s really not like any other Pixar game &#8212;&nbsp;or movie based game for that matter &#8212; those&nbsp;rarely seem to live up to the source. But TS3&#8217;s game isn&#8217;t solely aiming to mirror the movie, it&nbsp;actually creates an extremely enjoyable open world&nbsp;in what&#8217;s being called&nbsp;Toy Box mode.&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Toy-Story-Video-Game-Nintendo-Wii\/dp\/B0038MUCWS\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pre-order the game&nbsp;here<\/a> (in stores June 15th, 2010 on all major platforms) and enjoy new&nbsp;box art up top. Come see what I&#8217;m talking about over at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/gamesblog\/video\/2010\/apr\/23\/toy-story-3-game-trailer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Guardian<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1071.png\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"135\" width=\"113\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/images\/1071.png\" style=\"width: 113px; height: 135px;\" \/><\/a>&bull; Pixarian &quot;Webinar&quot; + Win Signed TS3 Posters from Animation Mentor:<\/strong>&nbsp;Pixar animators and Animation Mentor instructors Victor Navone and Aaron Hartline want you to know that they&#8217;re hosting a web seminar&nbsp;on&nbsp;April 29th! If you&#8217;re an aspiring animator, you&#8217;ll definitely want to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www323.livemeeting.com\/lrs\/8000181787\/Registration.aspx?pageName=4fxhgf9jp1fc477d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">register for&nbsp;Thursday&#8217;s live chat<\/a>&nbsp;which starts&nbsp;at&nbsp;7 PM <span class=\"caps\">PST<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>Everyone else might want to take advantage of the exciting contest they&#8217;ve set up which closes on the day of the &quot;webinar&quot;.&nbsp;By following <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AnimationMentor\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Animation <br \/>\nMentor on Twitter<\/a> and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.animationmentor.com\/webinar\/twitter\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">instructions at this page<\/a>, you could win a signed Toy Story 3 poster! Good luck everyone and hey Victor! [via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/hannahmation\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hannahmation<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><u>This should satisfy your Pixar cravings for a little while. Enjoy!<br \/>\n<\/u><br \/>\n<em>Please share your thoughts on the stories. Are you&nbsp;excited&nbsp;to see&nbsp;Aviator Mater; is&nbsp;TS3: The Video Game&nbsp;appealing to you; will you enter AM&#8217;s contest?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>The following headlines probably deserve their own posts, but when the Pixar news pipeline becomes&nbsp;severely backed up, this is what has to be done. 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