Director John Lasseter says level of realism is now 10 times greater for cinema audiences
The pioneering Hollywood studio that revolutionised the industry with the first computer animated feature film is pushing cinematic boundaries still further with its latest production, Cars 2.
Walt Disney's Pixar studios has devised "mind-blowing" technology that will make the film – a fast-moving spy story with anthropomorphised cars as characters – its most challenging and complex yet. Director John Lasseter, who shot to fame in 1995 with Toy Story, the first feature-length computer animated film, said: "The level of complexity in Cars 2 is 10 times what we've been able to put into any other film.
"Everything you see has been created by somebody. That took new technology. It's close to reaching the level of complexity you see out in the real world."
Such is the sophistication that the cities featured, including London, have been reproduced with a level of detail that was previously unattainable.
The pioneering Hollywood studio that revolutionised the industry with the first computer animated feature film is pushing cinematic boundaries still further with its latest production, Cars 2.
Walt Disney's Pixar studios has devised "mind-blowing" technology that will make the film – a fast-moving spy story with anthropomorphised cars as characters – its most challenging and complex yet. Director John Lasseter, who shot to fame in 1995 with Toy Story, the first feature-length computer animated film, said: "The level of complexity in Cars 2 is 10 times what we've been able to put into any other film.
"Everything you see has been created by somebody. That took new technology. It's close to reaching the level of complexity you see out in the real world."
Such is the sophistication that the cities featured, including London, have been reproduced with a level of detail that was previously unattainable.
- 6/25/2011
- by Dalya Alberge
- The Guardian - Film News
'The Greenchic - Finding Dad', a film promoting militant vegetarianism, to premiere in India this month
Children's animated films have long had a tradition of pushing a message. From the Depression-era Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with its "good triumphs over evil" theme, right up to the present-day eco-messaging of Finding Nemo, Happy Feet and Wall-e, animators have often sought to thread a political strand into their story-telling.
But it is unlikely that Hollywood's animators would ever go as far as the producers of The Greenchic - Finding Dad, a full-length animation set to premiere in India later this month. Mumbai-based Koffee Break Pictures has followed up its 2007 film My Friend Ganesha with a film about, well, I'll let them explain:
India's first-ever 100% vegetarian animated feature film…It depicts the pain faced by mute animals when they are separated from their families by man. A small chicken travels from...
Children's animated films have long had a tradition of pushing a message. From the Depression-era Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, with its "good triumphs over evil" theme, right up to the present-day eco-messaging of Finding Nemo, Happy Feet and Wall-e, animators have often sought to thread a political strand into their story-telling.
But it is unlikely that Hollywood's animators would ever go as far as the producers of The Greenchic - Finding Dad, a full-length animation set to premiere in India later this month. Mumbai-based Koffee Break Pictures has followed up its 2007 film My Friend Ganesha with a film about, well, I'll let them explain:
India's first-ever 100% vegetarian animated feature film…It depicts the pain faced by mute animals when they are separated from their families by man. A small chicken travels from...
- 6/14/2011
- by Leo Hickman
- The Guardian - Film News
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