Unceasing Superego

“Toy Story”, the first animated creature film made by Pixar, was incredible successful at that time. Kids loved it, critics loved it, and people in the animation field were knocked out.   Although the “Toy Story” succeed, Pixar was facing another serious challenge: what was the second product going to be? That is a big problem and many people fear this thing, especially when people have their first fantastic record. Many companies could not go thought that then they went bankrupt and Pixar was a small animation studio just then. As they first work, it was under tremendous pressure to create another miracle. Then the “A Bug’s Life” was growing step by step to show people Pixar could handle it. A total new story, characters and feeling. Animators did their research on their own backyard and they used some tiny video cameras which were put on the end of stick and they were placed on some wheels from LEGO then those cameras could move under the plants and viewed thing as tiny bugs. Those cameras were really helpful for those talented animators, such as they noticed that how translucent everything was! “A Bug’s Life” was the first computer animated widescreen movie. As Pixar’s second job, animators seemed they had greater ambition as they built a complicated organic system, more details and more technically difficult. The story is about ants, a swarm of laborious ants were suffered the oppression of the lazy, atrocious grasshoppers perennial and the ants had to offer their own food of the grasshoppers. Things changed after a little smart and creative ant named Fillet ruined the whole food by accident and the whole ant colony had to be punished for his mistake. Other ants disliked him and thought him as a troublemaker then let him to find some helpers, but actually they wanted to get rid of him. Fillet came back and with many “strong” insects which were come from circus. After went thought many kinds of experiences, those ants trusted fillet and the helpers, using their unite and courage to overcame the enemy. At that time, the ticklish question was the system could not show more than fifty ants in a scene technologically and technician hoped the director could control the number of the ants and set them under the limit. The director, John Lasseter said: “I think you guys can do better” and he tried his best to helped them. He believed in them and pushed them. In the end, thought new technology advancement,  those artist transformed the 50 crowd into 431. That was unprecedented and without question, “A Bug’s Life” was very successful and Pixar broke thought the second film syndrome. I watched this movie when I was eight, it was really impressive. I love it as it shows me we should never give up when we are facing difficulties and pressures. The small weak ants never give up, they defend their homeland, belief and dream as the same as Pixar. Another thing I really love are some sentences  which said by Andrew Stanton, one of my favorite animation directors: the biggest fear was just can you find out the light in the bottle again? Can you make yourself as in love the second time around and you realized you have to actually work now at making yourself as naïve as you were in the first?” They give me a lot of inspiration. Yes, we should continuous exceed ourselves to make the better us. Thanks for reading this blog.