Animation never ceases to evolve, seemingly with every new release.
But where did it begin, and will it have unintended effects?
Its computer animation was revolutionary for 1995, but just how much have things changed since then.
On a nearly unimaginable scale.
What enabled Pixar to do it, and what have the advances been since then?
After that films Best Picture Oscar nomination, a contract was worked out for a feature film.
in storyboarding, scripting and concept art before anything is committed to animation.
InToy Storythis prep alone took eighteen months to do.
Suddenly, computer animation became the in thing in Hollywood.
Not just within Disney of course.
Now explaininghow rendering worksis where things get complicated.
AndIce Age, still a decent-looking film, was 14 years ago.
Its safe to say the animation studios programs and methods are now ridiculously sophisticated, and only getting better.
DisneysHyperionmust surely be the motherboard (sorry) of all animation technology at the moment.
Remember the bit about path tracing?
it’s possible for you to watch their own video explanation of ithere.
Thats why the first computer animated features tended to avoid such effects where they could.
And that species is just one of 64 featured in the film.
The animators could actually create fully volumetric, interactive clouds instead of painting them in.
But then animation studios have received input from leading live-action cinematographers.
Frequent Tarantino collaborator Robert Richardson also supervisedBig Hero 6.
How can independents, even those staffed with really talented animators and technicians, hope to compete?
Otherwise its been Disney/Pixar/Dreamworks hegemony (dont get me started onThe LEGO Movies snubagain…).
Im talking about films likeFoodfight!, basicallyToy Storys nightmarish opposite where a supermarket comes alive at night.
CouldThe Good Dinosaurreally look dated in 20 years time?
And ifToy Storyhas aged noticeably, its in its human characters.
But they obviously arent the films attraction by some distance.
Just skip to about 21:10 of the above SIGGRAPH video, and the secondToy Storyclip.
