So I spent an afternoon doing homework and watching Disney and Pixar movies, because there’s nothing better than watching my favorite kind of movies while plugging away on my homework. So when I decided to take a mental break I decided to look up Pixar. (Pixar.com)
The site overall has a very simple and clean look to it. Now I’m guessing that they want to keep it that way and not overwhelm anyone. But the fun comes in once you start navigating through the site. You get to read about current employees and which pieces or characters they have created or worked on, you can read about how they come up with and develop their shorts, watch bloopers and trailers, and read up about their rendering techniques. The one I thought was the most interesting was reading about “How they do it.” It takes you through a step by step of the whole process. Under each step they have written quick blurbs about what the 14 steps involve and added a single shot from each of those steps. Now that we have been learning Maya and know that some renders can be lengthy , its not crazy to imagine that 1/24 of a second of screen time of a Pixar scene takes at least six hours to render, I was however blown away by the fact that some have taken up to 90 hours to render! How could anyone stand to wait for that to finish rendering?
But on that note, I L-O-V-E the people who do! Thank you Pixar, you may just be my God.
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Nice! That is a rediculous amount of render time, and i’d be the guy who waited 90 hours only to realize I had the wrong window selected when i hit reder…
I LOVE PIXAR!!
Wall-e is currently my desktop background.
ALSO: Here is that logo company I was talking about this morning! http://www.thechase.co.uk/homepage/index.php
They have some awesome stuff using negative space.
That site is amazing! And I quite enjoyed most of their logos! Thanks for suggesting it Jill!
Pixar really is amazing. The creative team is so good, that it hardly surprises me that the site is as entertaining as it is. I really like the clean feel I get from they, it must the white.
If you haven’t seen it, there’s a movie Pixar released that has a bunch of their old shorts they used to put on TV. It’s really wild to dive in the past and see their old work and watch how far they’ve come.