Pixar has always been pushing the edge when it comes to photorealism in their movies, but it’s always in the little things you may not notice such as water or a character’s hair. However, the stunning animation will be difficult to ignore in their upcoming short film, The Blue Umbrella. A brief clip has been released online, and it’s tough to believe that Pixar didn’t shoot live-action footage and then place animated faces on top of it.
Hit the jump to check out the clip. The Blue Umbrella will play in front of Monsters University, which opens June 21st.
Via WSJ via Pixar Planet.
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THATS SO FUCKING AWESOME! WHOOOOOO!! I FUCKING LOVE PIXAR BRO!
Why *didn’t* they just shoot it live action and just animate the eyes and mouth? The whole idea behind computer animation isn’t to strive for photo realism, it’s to transport you to worlds you’ll never see. If they look photo realistic, then that’s a bonus. But who gives two shits that a gaggle of umbrellas looks photo realistic? Pointless.
Please take your negative ass and throw it off a cliff. You see 30 seconds of video, and you’re acting like you know everything about it.
It would take 5x the CG to remove the actors manipulating real umbrellas.
Not to mention you wouldn’t get near the same quality of movement.
This looks fun. I don’t understand the carping about this clip already.
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That shit looked crazy.
“Pixar has always been pushing the edge when it comes to photorealism in their movies, but it’s always in the little things you may not notice such as water or a character’s hair. ”
Actually Pixar is rarely photorealistic. In fact they deliberately avoid photrealism. They strive for something that feels real, but isn’t. A kind of hyper-reality. But their starting point is photorealism, then they see how far they can push it.
@ Mark. a style of painting and sculpture that depicts esp commonplace urban images with meticulously accurate detail
Its a style that makes the mind and eyes think that what you are looking at is real though it isn’t. They use things like every day objects, common places and things we see constantly to trick our minds that we aren’t looking at piece of art. So you kind of just proved you were dumb by saying what you said and proved the ORIGINAL comment in the article right.