Thursday, Jun. 15, 2023

Pixar's "Elemental" conjures a diverse metropolis where the elements — fire, water, earth and air — live like ethnicities mostly ghettoized from one other. For fire and water, especially, mingling can be combustible. A bad splash could consume fire; a strong flame could evaporate water. This is...

Wednesday, Apr. 12, 2023

"Elemental'' director Peter Sohn says his parents ignited the spark for the upcoming Disney and Pixar animated film.

Sohn invited his parents — who both had emigrated from Korea to the U.S. — to an event. Seeing them from the stage filled him with a deep appreciation for all they had done...

Monday, Jun. 13, 2022

"In 1995, Andy got a toy from his favorite movie. This is that movie."

So begins "Lightyear," a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio's flagship franchise. It isn't a prequel to "Toy Story," exactly, but instead presents the movie that inspired Buzz...

Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022

Psyop has added Teddy Newton to its directorial roster. Newton is a multi-disciplinary animation artist and director who created and helmed the Oscar-nominated animated 2010 Pixar short Day and Night. He’s been an integral part of filmmaker Brad Bird’s team, including storyboarding and...

Wednesday, Jun. 16, 2021

A brisk and bright sun-dappled fable of above-ground adventure and below-the-surface identity, Enrico Casarosa's "Luca"  — a summery, shimmering fish-out-of-water fairy tale — is one of Pixar's most pure and condensed enchantments. 

Pixar has plunged into the sea before, of course, in the...

Saturday, Apr. 17, 2021

Soul (Disney-Pixar) came up the big winner at the 48th Annie Awards honoring the best in animation, followed closely in the feature tally by Wolfwalkers (Cartoon Saloon/Melusine Productions for Apple/GKIDS) .

Soul scored seven Annie Awards during Friday evening’...

Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020

Pete Docter's "Soul" features stairway-to-heaven visions of the afterlife, a pre-birth "before" realm where souls are glowing turquoise orbs and an in-between spiritual realm trafficked by some kind of psychedelic pirate. And yet, kind of magically, it's about "just regular old living." 

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Friday, May. 29, 2020

In Steven Clay Hunter's 23 years as an animator at Pixar, he has drawn a seven-armed octopus, a Canadian daredevil and a wheezing toy penguin. But there were scenes he never expected to animate until he began working on his short, "Out." 

Hunter wrote and directed the nine-minute Pixar...

Wednesday, Mar. 18, 2020

The technology that animated movies like “Toy Story” and enabled a variety of special effects is the focus of this year’s Turing Award, the technology industry’s version of the Nobel Prize.

Patrick Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull won the prize for their contributions to 3-D computer graphics...

Wednesday, Mar. 4, 2020

For a revolutionary animation studio, Pixar has been surprisingly wary of advancing technology. The company may be at the forefront of digital animation, but for 25 years, its spiritual DNA has been decidedly nostalgic. It's the old-school new school. 

In "WALL-E," high-tech humans have...

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