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Key to the entire process is a Pixar-developed program called Menv (Modeling Environment). "In computer animation, it's so easy to make things move, but it's the minute detail work at the end that makes it look so real."
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"Where you spend time in this medium is during the last 10 percent of the project," says Lasseter. The old saying in the trade is that doing animation is like watching grass grow, and here, too, in the futuristic realm of the virtual studio, the labor is endlessly exacting. "Sort of a Ubangi plate-lip thing." Hoots and jeers erupt as a rain of paper balls is showered on the miscreant. Should the chip perhaps be bigger? Smaller? Should it come in at a higher angle? How about two chips? "Maybe the chip should get caught in his mouth," someone suggests facetiously. Over and over the scene loops, undergoing excruciating nit-picking by the assembled crew. The shot shows one of the film's major characters, a rag-doll cowboy named Woody (the voice of Tom Hanks),flat footedly taking a flying poker-chip square on the chops. Here in the Pixar screening room, the only thing on the collective minds of John Lasseter and his team is jiggering and polishing the brief clip on screen to eek out the maximum slapstick yuks.
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There are more PhDs working on this film than any other in movie history, and yet you don't need to know a thing about technology to love it." You looked at it and thought, There's an awesome amount of technology in this box, but you don't need to know that to enjoy its output. "I had the same experience when we shipped the first laser printer at Apple. "The characters really come to life, which is at the heart of what animation is all about."įor Jobs, who negotiated Pixar's deal with Disney and played a hands-on role as Toy Story's executive producer, the new tools are revolutionary. "It's not just that the pictures look cool," explains Jobs. "We take an average of three hours to draw a single frame on the fastest computer money can buy," says Jobs, the famed Silicon Valley boy whose day gig, of course, is running NeXT Computer Inc., the Redwood City outfit he founded after his spectacular flameout at Apple. Never given to understatement, Steve Jobs, Pixar's founder and owner, confidently predicts the film will give birth to a whole new era of filmmaking, possibly even supplanting traditional 2-D cel animation entirely.