Tuesday, 9 September 2008

Pixar win special recognition award at the National Movie Awards.






And in my honest opinion it’s very well deserved, and the reason why is what they have done for animated movies, starting with Toy Story all the way through to Wall-E, Pixar films have bought us some brilliant films, and some brilliant animation along the way, and with the look of things they can only get better.

The animation in the Pixar films is so good it just makes you go wow, especially in Monsters Inc and Finding Nemo, the parts that stand out are the water effects (Finding Nemo) and Sulley’s fur in Monsters Inc.

Mike's New Car (Short Film at the end of Monsters Inc.



Finding Nemo Trailer.



The water in Finding Nemo looks almost real, and then when you are taken into the Reef setting below it looks even better, everything moves in such a lifelike way, and then there’s the way Sulley’s fur moves in the short film Mike’s New Car when the blowers come on, it just shows how much computer animation is coming along.

These are just two small examples but there are hundreds of things across the Pixar animations that have been done that animation just wasn’t capable of 10 - 15 years ago when 3D animation was starting to appear in movies.

And yes, there are more animated movies out there such as A Shark’s Tale and Shrek both by DreamWorks Animation and Blue Sky Studios’ Ice Age and Robots, but for me, Pixar are a cut above the rest.

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