What did you think of the first Pixar film with live-action?
When I first heard that Wall-E would have some live-action, I was very skeptical…But after seeing Wall-E, I’m very happy they did it! Pixar pulled it off perfectly. If they were to do it again, I would have no problem with it.
I didn’t really like it. It kinda made my WALL-E viewing experience a little too wierd. I was so used to seeing animated characters all the time, then you throw the curve ball with humans in it. I just didn’t like it.
I wasn’t very skeptical about it when I heard about the live-action, but when I saw it, any worries I had were blown away. I loved how they integrated live-action into WALL-E, it really worked, and it was really cool.
I thought it was neat for their first try. I just made the movie more realistic.
I did not come in expecting it at all, was totally surprised, it felt awesome. I especially loved seeing Fred Willard as the BnL CEO. (I purposely wanted to come into the movie knowing as little about it beforehand as possible. Glad I did!) I thought it was a good move. It really seemed to add to the depth of the world. Only caveat is that you then have to take the leap of faith of adjusting to cartoon people later on, and that’s difficult for some people, but I did think that the hall of captains’ portraits was a really brilliant idea to make that jump easier to make. And I guess that technically should be enough for people, but even so it is kind of a hard idea to digest. I think you just have to acknowledge that you are in the reality of the world in the film, the same world where robots gain self-awareness. And because it skirts between being a cartoon and aiming for realism, some people find it difficult to consume. But I just let myself be enveloped in the reality Pixar created, so it worked on me. Overall, I thought it was a good move, and it made the movie what it is today. So yeah, I love the live action. Looked like it was fun to direct and composite too.
Were the portraits of the past captains all live-action (besides Captain McCrea)?
The first one was a straight up photo and the last one was of course completely cg. Every instance in between was combination of the two mediums, slowly morphing actual pictures to cartoon images in greater and greater degrees.
Yeah, but it made the viewers possibly think that this is how humans could have turned out to look kinda blobbish and more squishy as it were.