What was Pixar's CAPS project?
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2025
- In this video I'm talking about Pixar's CAPS system that allowed Disney to go all digital with their traditional animation.
The CAPS document by Pixar: alvyray.com/Pix...
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Hi all. I was one of the three engineers on CAPS at Pixar. I wanted to commend you on getting so much of the story right. It's so often not the case. Great work. If any of you have any questions, I'll be glad to answer what I can assuming I'm not compromising Pixar/Disney in any way.
Oh nice! Really happy to hear that you liked the video and thanks for helping to advance animation! If you don't mind, I would actually love to talk to you more about CAPS and Pixar, do you have an Instagram or twitter account that I could contact you on?
I really miss CAPS. If only Disney should sell its old CAPS system to an indie studio as Disney moved on from 2d animation. Maybe James Lopez Animation will cover 1 CAPS computer due to Disney dismantle CAPS since 2004. I also realize that Dinosaur was animated in CAPS even though its not 2d animation. Very smart plan. When Disney acquire Dream Quest Images and collaborate with CAPS to make Secret Lab, Disney uses CAPS to blend live action settings with CGI dinosaurs. Very neat choice.
I think we should bring it back!!!!
Hey Michael! What tools did you develop for Toy Story on the modeling and animation software?
@@shaneworden63 for Toy Story, I was more involved with making sure it got out the computers and onto film. I want working much on the production software for that show...
Funny enough you're about the only video I've find so far with any picture of the CAPS system (or at least attempted). That stacked Pixar shot is really the rare one I got a kick out of (more amusing than the stacked SGI Indigo's ILM used on Jurassic Park). Kudos to you're research for that.
Happy that you liked it, thanks!
My teacher was explaining caps in class today but this is an incredible explanation that made me understand the process more!!! Tysm!!!!
I'm really happy that you found it helpful, you're welcome!
Oddly enough, while _The Rescuers Down Under_ was the very first Disney animated film to make full use of the CAPS digital ink-and-paint process, _The Prince and the Pauper,_ the Mickey Mouse featurette that originally accompanied said animated feature, was the very last Disney short film to use the traditional ink-and-paint process.
1:49 the film after that film The Rescuers Down Under
It was probably a better decision to use Toon Boom Harmony. Developing software isn't exactly fast & cheap. I'm sure at that point Toon Boom Harmony had just as many features (if not more) than CAPS did at the end of it's life.
Disney really should've open sourced the software if they weren't doing anything with it, or at least sold it to another company. Who knows? Maybe they did sell it...
As far as I know they didn't sell it, just just dismantled them and got rid of them. That's true though, Toom Boom Harmony is probably a lot better to use nowadays
Snipple Animation used Toon Boom Harmony in the Animaniacs revival for Hulu since mid to late 2019.
@@DennisTamayo nope at all, flash too
Caps is dated by now.
3:27 when they made recent films like the Prince and the Frog and Winnie the Pooh
Two corrections for you. First, CAPS stands for Computer Animation Production System. Not “animated”. Second, that photo of Tom Sito is not of him at a CAPS station. He’s sitting at an Animac station. That’s what animators used for their pencil tests before sending their scenes to be scanned into CAPS. Animac (didn’t that become “SceneMachine” later?) was written in-house.
Oh ok, thanks for the corrections. Hope you liked the rest of the video!
Nice video man! Super informative I had no idea about how they went about those animations 😀
Thanks!
Great explanation of CAPS! :D
Thanks!
There were other scenes they used CAPS in The Little Mermaid
Wish there was more info on caps.
Was something similar to this system used for cartoons on TV in the early 2000s?
As far as I know only Disney had this sort of system when CAPS was first introduced. By the time that the 2000s had come around computers could be used for animation (Toy Story had come out in 1995) but for cartoons as far as I know most companies just used ordinary traditional animation.
MovieMation Spongebob switched to digital ink and paint during its second season as well as shows like Dexter’s Lab and The Powerpuff Girls during there later seasons.
@@mr.pendleton7121 Oh ok, that's interesting. Honestly I don't know too much about cartoon series, I've mostly just looked into movies. Might be something I could look into for a future video.
Technically for animated TV shows the switch to digital ink and paint started in the late 1990s and would continue into the early 2000s with the last show Ed Edd n Eddy being the last to switch to digital
Fact check: it was NOT “just as good if not better” then ce aniamtion. Look at the color of little mermaid vs lion king ,ect. Ce animation is OBJECTIVELY better.
I don’t understand why you assume that Toon Boom Harmony was a stupid decision. Most animation studios use Harmony and it would be better than using 10+ year old software that probably wouldn’t even run on modern hardware.
Yeah, that's true, but I was more thinking that it's a shame that they just got rid of that instead of developing it, and then had to rely on third-party software later on down the line. I'm not saying that the decision to use Toon Boom Harmony as opposed to other available software was a bad idea though, considering that they had already gotten rid of CAPS.
It would've been a HORRIBLE idea to use CAPS for their last two hand drawn films. It's like saying, "Let's use Photoshop from 10 years ago for our brand new film!" (if it were discontinued).
It's likely Disney sold the source code of CAPS to another company (maybe Toon Boom?). That's what companies usually do when a certain branch of their business is failing, they sell off any viable assets.
I was shocked to hear that every film after The Little Mermaid used digital pen and ink with CAPS as well. I had no idea! I'm still bummed there aren't any major hand drawn movies outside of anime which I'm not really a fan of.
not necessarily sometimes something old can get the job done just fine
If Disney revive one CAPS computer and update CAPS into Disney's CAPS app on smartphones, then CAPS will be the future for future 2d animated films. I agree on that one that dismantling CAPS was a mistake more than 10 years ago. Disney should revive CAPS one day and fix the CAPS system for updating on future computers. #BringBackCAPS
Because CAPS looks beautiful while Toon Boom looks cheap flash garbage
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Guess Home on the Range ruined traditional animated Disney movies!
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