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. 

Toy Story Series

Toy story was the first feature-length 3D computer animation which produced by Pixar Animation Studio, directed by John Lasseter. Toy story series are one of the most popular animations in world. The story is about the toys which belongs to Andy. As all the children will grow up, their toys will face the abandonment issues. Andy’s growth promote the development of the story and the movies perfectly describe each character and catch the touching moments. The plots are simple, the toys hope to get their owner’s care and love, then a lot of things happen and they need to break through all the difficulties to get that love they want. I like this movie as it give me a lot of the feeling and happy time. I watched this movie when I was very young. I love the stories and the characters. The animations were so brilliant to establish such wonderful world for people. They just use some toys which are the most common things in the world as the main characters to describe a story of growth and accompany. We all have a toys and they play an significant role in our lives. So when we watch this move we can find a lot of memories. Those toys are our friends forever.

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The First 3D Animation

 In 1990, after twists and turns the Pixar Studio finally got the chance to make their first 3D animation movie, which is also the first one in the world. This is a historical progress and it symbolizes the New Age of the animation. The movie’s name is “ Toy story”. It is said that the first step is the only difficulty, but the all the steps are all troubles for something which is brand new. I believe as the first tracker, Pixar seemed like in a pressure cooker at that time. Under the pressure of funds, the limitation of technology and stress from Disney, the animators stumbled every step of way and the movie almost to be aborted at the worst time. However, the movie succeed and shocked the world. What is the secret that make it such successful and popular? The secret penetrates in every corner of each frame. Next time I will talk more detail about the ups and downs making process of “Toy story 1-3”

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The Pixar Story

The Pixar Story

This video depicts the growth process of Pixar animation studios and the development of 3D technology in the field of animation application. Pixar, which is a very special animation studio as it has a lot of experience and is combined with a group of amazing animators. They devote themselves to creating wonderful animations and no matter what, they never give up and always bring people a lot of surprises. Steve Jobs said “Pixar has seen by a lot of folks as an overnight sess, but if you really look closely- many overnight sesses took a long time”. We must have seen their works before, such as Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Cars, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, Wall E, Up, Brave and so on. Those animations are almost known by anyone and we grow up together.  Everyone can receive more or less positive energy and inner feeling from different stories. They give me a great number of inspirations and encouragement. I really appreciate their company and they show me the reason why is it amazing to become an animator. As Walt Disney had said “when finding a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, we don’t think of children, we just look at the fine, clean, unspoiled spots down deep in anyone of us. Maybe the world would make it forget and maybe our pictures can help record”.

Posters

15 minimal painting styles of Pixar's animations.