Things have been pretty light on Pixar loving of late but that ain’t gonna last too long with the release of Toy Story 3. No doubt its going to be a masterpiece of style, technical wizardry, storytelling and everything else that they do all so well (its all guesswork until I see it but lets face it, Pixar don’t exactly do bad films…). So ye can all drool over the visuals but what caught my eye is that Pixar, along with Skywalker Sound and Dolby Laboratories, have developed a new 7.1 surround sound configuration for the film to be viewed in – unfortunately Dolby are essentially men-in-white-coats and lack the creative genius of Pixar so the best name they could come up with was well….Dolby Surround 7.1.
Nerds, put your specs on, things are gonna get wordy!!
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I’ll be the first to admit it….I tend to only go to the cinema for:
a) A film i can’t wait to see eg. Star Wars (prequels, sequels, 3-D or whatever he does next), any new James Bond film etc
b) Something that i know will benefit from a cinema setting eg. the surround sound in the Transformers movies was flying all over the shop, all the time…in a brilliant way!
c) 2 hours of mindless entertainment eg. Mission Impossible III – butt-thumping explosions are just so much better in a cinema….even if Tom Cruise’s smug mug is 10 ft bigger…
The last animated film I went to in the cinema was The Incredibles (which I loved…) and I missed Wall-E so after hearing about just how good Pixar’s new film UP was, I thought it was time to see what all this stereoscopic fuss was about!
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To mark this week’s release of Toy Story in 3D, Empire Magazine’s website features a great summary of the story of Pixar’s ‘Toy Story’.
It covers the genesis of the film from the first computer graphic produced in 1972, through the founding of Pixar and the production of the first ever feature-length CGI movie.
Research for the article came from To Infinity & Beyond! The Pixar Animation Studios Story by Karen Paik, a must-read for any animation addicts.
“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.” - Norman McLaren
Actions speak louder than words…
Pixar's One Man Band
I went to the recent AIB World Street Performance recently and saw some fantastic acts. They had a huge variety of different types of street performers who were some of the best in the world at their particular craft.
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