{"id":914,"date":"2006-05-07T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/the-man-who-could-save-animation"},"modified":"2006-05-07T17:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T17:53:00","slug":"the-man-who-could-save-animation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/the-man-who-could-save-animation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Could Save Animation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5801\/681\/1600\/Picture%201.1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5801\/681\/200\/Picture%201.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/report\/0,6115,1186017_1|8963||0_0_,00.html\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animated-news.com\/archives\/00005008.html\">Animated News<\/a> has a great article on <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8220;the creative engine behind the Pixar hit machine&#8221;<\/span>, John Lasseter.  <\/p>\n<p>The article discusses the mega-creative genius&#8217; past, present and future, and also his love of cars, story and quality.<\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-style:italic;\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Incredibles director Brad Bird, now overseeing Ratatouille, a big upside to a deeper Disney-Pixar marriage is the stronger connection he expects Lasseter to forge between Disney animation and the Disney parks \u2014 something Walt Disney pioneered. &#8216;&#8216;The press likes to say that Pixar is about to &#8216;change the Disney paradigm,&#8217;&#8216;&#8217; says Bird. &#8216;&#8216;But to me, what we&#8217;re doing is going back to the real Disney paradigm. The original Disneyland was designed by people who worked on Walt&#8217;s animated features. They got working on the rides and brought storytelling into attractions. That&#8217;s what separated Disney&#8217;s park from everyone else&#8217;s.&#8217;&#8216; Every time Lasseter visited the Imagineering crew over the years, Bird got the sense he&#8217;d found a home base. &#8216;&#8216;He&#8217;d bounce from room to room like an excited child. And he&#8217;d make them excited about what they were doing, too. John loves this stuff down to the marrow of his bones.&#8217;&#8216; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to have a read. Its really interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tmnf_excerpt\"><p>Entertainment Weekly via Animated News has a great article on &#8220;the creative engine behind the Pixar hit machine&#8221;, John Lasseter. The article discusses the mega-creative genius&#8217; past, present and future, and also his love of cars, story and quality. For Incredibles director Brad Bird, now overseeing Ratatouille, a big upside to a deeper Disney-Pixar marriage &hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Man Who Could Save Animation - Upcoming Pixar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pixarplanet.com\/blog\/the-man-who-could-save-animation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Man Who Could Save Animation - Upcoming Pixar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Entertainment Weekly via Animated News has a great article on &#8220;the creative engine behind the Pixar hit machine&#8221;, John Lasseter. 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