BTW, the guy who asked the first question is Brad Templeton, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He's a computer industry pioneer himself. -jcr
At 52:58, this quote has proved to be INCREDIBLY true, and to an extent was already true at the time: "A lot of Pixar wannabes are going to come out with horrible films...And some good ones!"
i use to tell people that the original hotspot for cg animation was in fact NY and not LA. of course most people didnt believe me. I remember the Amuze group meetings at NYU and LIU. its incredible.
History has the information, and the industry should cherish the principals, passion and talent from this team The two best tidbits I found was from Ed, how they caught themselves on Toy Story 2, and how the art process/technologies change, but the passion of the people who create it does not.... and it should not. Respect to the tool, and respect to art; always is the art and story paramount.
All of this is great but Brads answer to the question at 1:20:40 is so so true of most modern cinema. Sadly. He puts into words and gestures what I've tried to say for years
Incredible's 2... perhaps Pixar shouldn't milk successful films, but do more originals that are also as great as the Incredible's. Brad Bird should still definitely direct more films for Pixar though. That is my personal opinion.
Thank god I found this talk. Great insights on CG. It has changed man... Today studios only care about technical abilities, witch are very important. But I agree with the talk, I've not seen anything I like in 3D exept the Pixar stuff. The CG has been severly abused as a art form, thanks to avengers, and hobits and all the rest of the family.
If you use Subdivision (Sub-D) surface modeling method to make your 3D model in XSI, Maya, Max, Lightwave, Blender, Modo, etc. You'll have to thank Edwin Catmull, because one of the most popular algorithm that calculate Sub-D was invented by Edwin Catmull and Jim Clark. The algorithm is called Catmull-Clark. There were other sub-d algorithms such as doo-sabin, but now a days, catmull-clark is the widely used method, and is set as default.
Thanks for putting this up! Really wonderful to hear stories about making the stories from all of them. I really agree with Brad on everything he said about not cutting or changing scenes to keep the audience from becoming bored. We don't all have ADD. (I do, but I can pay attention to a movie without a billion cuts)
xsi allowed the use of texture mapping well before that older guy "invented" it...he may have popularized this, through his work with pixar, but thats it
That is true that the company of Pixar didn't do any formal work on the movie, but Pixar exec. John Lasseter was a big part of that movie and the executive producer. Lasseter is the cheif creative officer at Disney. It is unlikely that a split will happen anytime soon. Both Disney and Pixar benefit greatly from the partnership with the merchandising and such.
What Brad said around minute 54/55 rings so true to me and is so profetic. Here we are 14 years later and every animation studio tries to come up with the stupidest ideas ever and put it on screen.
@electricmastro Dude, it's alright. My last comment was a little harsh, I apologize. The new list of yours looks fine. Toy Story 3 was an incredible movie! And you're right, no matter what, you have to put a Pixar film at the bottom and that doesn't mean it's a bad movie.
At pixar they use their own software to animate. I think Maya is one of the biggest and most used, but I think many of these programs works on the same basis, so I think you'll be fine if you use Lightwave in the program that you're in and then you can try other programs like Maya later. And if you get a job at Pixar they'll teach you their software anyway :)
@BleedHuskaRed1220 Okay how about this list? NOTE: The #11 spot does NOT equal bad, think of it as #11 being good/great and #1 being excellent! 1. Toy Story 3 2. WALL-E 3. Ratatouille 4. Toy Story 5. Toy Story 2 6. Up 7. Finding Nemo 8.The Incredibles 9.A Bug's Life 10. Monster's Inc 11. Cars
I LOVED this. All of these guys are my heroes and have inspired me so much with my own artistic endeavors. Thanks so much for having this available online!
hahaha that is so funny: he sais nobody recreates the part from juressic park with the rimpelling water glas..... i did 2 weeks ago (in a clay animation... The monster turned out to be me by the way )
what software do they use at this studio? Matter of fact, whats the software to use that will get you employed? I am in a program where people are using Lightwave alot, and no other software is used. I try to use Maya, but the teacher hates it. Am i wrong? I just dont want to end up unemployed later
The quality of the sound in this recording is terrible. So much feedback that it is painful to listen to. Please consider using a sound recording technician in your future recordings. The material is much too important for this kind of loss of quality!
@BleedHuskaRed1220 Maybe I probably should have thought it over some more and I haven't seen a few of these films in a while, but whether you like it or not, unavoidably there's going to be a Pixar movie at the bottom, so you have no choice but to put a Pixar film at number 10 and, but I juist want to make it perfectly clear, I like ALL the Pixar movies, regardless if there at number 10, besides, if I change it someone will complain anyway. DO NOT think of the #10 spot as the worst film.
Amazing, I was Google searching about Ed Catmull and Pixar when I ran into this because my interest was peaked by a new book about Pixar well written and very entertaining read by David Price. Check out the new book in the stores.
Definitely relatable and clever in each unforgettable story/3D adventure. Awesome talk with incredible innovators and filmmakers, with the important focus to present/generate the feeling of a place like the ocean or seeing everything from a bug's point of view, instead of trying to make everything look like what you can already see in real life.🎯💻✏🤠👨🏻🚀🦸🏼♂️🦸♀️🐟👹🦕🌅 Stay safe everyone!
History has the information, and the industry should cherish the principals, passion and talent from this team The two best tidbits I found was from Ed, how they caught themselves on Toy Story 2, and how the art process/technologies change, but the passion of the people who create it does not.... and it should not. Respect to the tool, and respect to art; always is the art and story paramount.
I understand that you wrote this comment a year ago, when Pixar had just made Cars 2 and Brave (which were not up to Pixar's normal standards), but Pixar is getting a lot better. Monsters University was a very good film and Pixar's next film, 'Inside Out', is expected to be really good. Every movie compony has their downfalls, which explains Cars 2 and Brave. However, I agree that Pixar should make an Incredibles 2...
@jtapia1123 1. I should have probably thought it over and I haven't seen a few of these fils is a while, but there are only 10 feature length Pixar films as of this moment! So you have no choice but to put a Pixar film at number 10 and I like ALL the Pizar movies, regardless if there at number 10, besides, if I change it someone will complain anyway.
A question I would've asked: Disney had possibly one of the best successes ever with Wreck-It Ralph. It was the best video game movie of all time, had some of my favorite humor (Gotta love king candy's puns), and it had LOADS of different cameo appearances right at the start. However, to my knowledge, Pixar did not work on it. This could inspire Disney to stop working with Pixar. Is it maybe possible that pixar could fade away from disney and become an independent movie maker?
You see, this is skills. These people will be employ for a very very veeeery looong time with these skills. Plus they're doing something they love doing.
BTW, the guy who asked the first question is Brad Templeton, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He's a computer industry pioneer himself.
-jcr
As a digital artist (and wannabe Pixar employee) I applaud these people! :) :) :)
I like how down to earth these geniuses are and not like the phonies in hollywood. Very inspirational panel indeed!
Back when Pixar made great movies
At 52:58, this quote has proved to be INCREDIBLY true, and to an extent was already true at the time: "A lot of Pixar wannabes are going to come out with horrible films...And some good ones!"
It's so great to hear them defend 2D animation and talk about the computer being just a tool.
i use to tell people that the original hotspot for cg animation was in fact NY and not LA.
of course most people didnt believe me.
I remember the Amuze group meetings at NYU and LIU. its incredible.
History has the information, and the industry should cherish the principals, passion and talent from this team
The two best tidbits I found was from Ed, how they caught themselves on Toy Story 2, and how the art process/technologies change, but the passion of the people who create it does not.... and it should not.
Respect to the tool, and respect to art; always is the art and story paramount.
All of this is great but Brads answer to the question at 1:20:40 is so so true of most modern cinema. Sadly. He puts into words and gestures what I've tried to say for years
thanks for sharing Computer History Museum
It was awesome
Incredible's 2... perhaps Pixar shouldn't milk successful films, but do more originals that are also as great as the Incredible's. Brad Bird should still definitely direct more films for Pixar though. That is my personal opinion.
Thank god I found this talk. Great insights on CG. It has changed man... Today studios only care about technical abilities, witch are very important. But I agree with the talk, I've not seen anything I like in 3D exept the Pixar stuff. The CG has been severly abused as a art form, thanks to avengers, and hobits and all the rest of the family.
This is the best UA-cam ever and inspires me beyond words...
If you use Subdivision (Sub-D) surface modeling method to make your 3D model in XSI, Maya, Max, Lightwave, Blender, Modo, etc. You'll have to thank Edwin Catmull, because one of the most popular algorithm that calculate Sub-D was invented by Edwin Catmull and Jim Clark. The algorithm is called Catmull-Clark. There were other sub-d algorithms such as doo-sabin, but now a days, catmull-clark is the widely used method, and is set as default.
you will loose your dream there... now you are dreaming but when you're finally there its not a dream anymore
Thanks for putting this up! Really wonderful to hear stories about making the stories from all of them. I really agree with Brad on everything he said about not cutting or changing scenes to keep the audience from becoming bored. We don't all have ADD. (I do, but I can pay attention to a movie without a billion cuts)
xsi allowed the use of texture mapping well before that older guy "invented" it...he may have popularized this, through his work with pixar, but thats it
I could have watched another 6 hours of this, thanks for posting the whole thing, really enjoyed it.
What is the music played at the beginning? It's awesome!
Some old timey poetry shit
That is true that the company of Pixar didn't do any formal work on the movie, but Pixar exec. John Lasseter was a big part of that movie and the executive producer. Lasseter is the cheif creative officer at Disney. It is unlikely that a split will happen anytime soon. Both Disney and Pixar benefit greatly from the partnership with the merchandising and such.
Wow, Pixar really is paradise for a creative soul , lucky (and hardworker) people who works in it. I admit it, i´m a little bit jealous
What Brad said around minute 54/55 rings so true to me and is so profetic. Here we are 14 years later and every animation studio tries to come up with the stupidest ideas ever and put it on screen.
@electricmastro Dude, it's alright. My last comment was a little harsh, I apologize. The new list of yours looks fine. Toy Story 3 was an incredible movie! And you're right, no matter what, you have to put a Pixar film at the bottom and that doesn't mean it's a bad movie.
The last 3 right? Up was there peak.
hell yea!
At pixar they use their own software to animate. I think Maya is one of the biggest and most used, but I think many of these programs works on the same basis, so I think you'll be fine if you use Lightwave in the program that you're in and then you can try other programs like Maya later. And if you get a job at Pixar they'll teach you their software anyway :)
amazing.
Favorite!! I Love this Creative Energy!!
A dream come true.
wow thx for the video.does anyone know if there is a more recent version or similar stuff out there.
@BleedHuskaRed1220 Okay how about this list? NOTE: The #11 spot does NOT equal bad, think of it as #11 being good/great and #1 being excellent!
1. Toy Story 3
2. WALL-E
3. Ratatouille
4. Toy Story
5. Toy Story 2
6. Up
7. Finding Nemo
8.The Incredibles
9.A Bug's Life
10. Monster's Inc
11. Cars
I LOVED this. All of these guys are my heroes and have inspired me so much with my own artistic endeavors. Thanks so much for having this available online!
Is this the "pixar story" DVD? Available with the 8 DVDs of pixar?
Me : The tito we want, but it happens -> Brad Bird
Also Me : ***tags PaoLUL***
hahaha that is so funny: he sais nobody recreates the part from juressic park with the rimpelling water glas..... i did 2 weeks ago (in a clay animation... The monster turned out to be me by the way )
Don't care what people say, Iron Giant was great.
2 words... BRAD... BIRD! Evreything he says is ture :)
what software do they use at this studio? Matter of fact, whats the software to use that will get you employed? I am in a program where people are using Lightwave alot, and no other software is used. I try to use Maya, but the teacher hates it. Am i wrong? I just dont want to end up unemployed later
The quality of the sound in this recording is terrible. So much feedback that it is painful to listen to. Please consider using a sound recording technician in your future recordings. The material is much too important for this kind of loss of quality!
I love Pixar!
Greatest film studio of the 21st century and
@pt4liferockz hows that dream going
damn brad birt is a real .. brat .. such a funny guy but really true what he is saying!
@BleedHuskaRed1220 Maybe I probably should have thought it over some more and I haven't seen a few of these films in a while, but whether you like it or not, unavoidably there's going to be a Pixar movie at the bottom, so you have no choice but to put a Pixar film at number 10 and, but I juist want to make it perfectly clear, I like ALL the Pixar movies, regardless if there at number 10, besides, if I change it someone will complain anyway. DO NOT think of the #10 spot as the worst film.
20:12 This is called a coach house
Amazing, I was Google searching about Ed Catmull and Pixar when I ran into this because my interest was peaked by a new book about Pixar well written and very entertaining read by David Price. Check out the new book in the stores.
aside from being a studio's wet dream?
Definitely relatable and clever in each unforgettable story/3D adventure. Awesome talk with incredible innovators and filmmakers, with the important focus to present/generate the feeling of a place like the ocean or seeing everything from a bug's point of view, instead of trying to make everything look like what you can already see in real life.🎯💻✏🤠👨🏻🚀🦸🏼♂️🦸♀️🐟👹🦕🌅 Stay safe everyone!
Well then show it!
Woot?
pixar ftw
@chase17936 exactly how i feel, its so expensive, im gonna do it though- i have to or i wont ever be happy with any job!!!
Ed Catmull is one bad bitch.
What does that statement have to do with this.
1:07:20
53:13
1:18:42
Blah, blah, blah...what ever.
From The Graphics Group to Pixar it's alive today
History has the information, and the industry should cherish the principals, passion and talent from this team
The two best tidbits I found was from Ed, how they caught themselves on Toy Story 2, and how the art process/technologies change, but the passion of the people who create it does not.... and it should not.
Respect to the tool, and respect to art; always is the art and story paramount.
I understand that you wrote this comment a year ago, when Pixar had just made Cars 2 and Brave (which were not up to Pixar's normal standards), but Pixar is getting a lot better. Monsters University was a very good film and Pixar's next film, 'Inside Out', is expected to be really good. Every movie compony has their downfalls, which explains Cars 2 and Brave. However, I agree that Pixar should make an Incredibles 2...
They did made an incredibles 2
@jtapia1123 1. I should have probably thought it over and I haven't seen a few of these fils is a while, but there are only 10 feature length Pixar films as of this moment! So you have no choice but to put a Pixar film at number 10 and I like ALL the Pizar movies, regardless if there at number 10, besides, if I change it someone will complain anyway.
Does brad is on steroids !🧐
Yes I think you're right.
@Anilarvs2443 My dream IS pixar! im studying computer animation :)
Cool
ok here is a video response... but uuuuh don't expect much.
God I love you, Brad. You really made this presentation incredible, for lack of a better word.
Ikr
A question I would've asked: Disney had possibly one of the best successes ever with Wreck-It Ralph. It was the best video game movie of all time, had some of my favorite humor (Gotta love king candy's puns), and it had LOADS of different cameo appearances right at the start. However, to my knowledge, Pixar did not work on it. This could inspire Disney to stop working with Pixar.
Is it maybe possible that pixar could fade away from disney and become an independent movie maker?
Yeah that was great but pixar is great
Best youtube. I love this and will show it to my students!
This was really interesting and really informative + Brad Bird is awesome!
He's a genius
You see, this is skills. These people will be employ for a very very veeeery looong time with these skills. Plus they're doing something they love doing.
Pls Hire me...!!!
nice
Jeez..
Yh I realised that after I watched it through lol thanks anyway. I just bought the pixar story on ebay yay. Should be good.
Thank you for the upload, this was a very enlightening conversation.
NO. The Pixar Story is amazing, though.
very interesting thanks
Hey pixar is the greatest film studio of the 21st century they had too
Amazing! Great conference. And also quite funny, I laughed several times~
Me too
soon I will be working at pixar :)
I have faith in you me too.
46:02
gay will do!