Mark charts some of the groundbreaking moments in computer animation from Pixar’s relatively short history…
These days most people dont consider the technology that goes into a CGI movie or advert.
Its assumed that the computer does most of the work and those involved simply take the accolades.
Yet, this was still finely balanced with the demands on computer resources.
But the extra computing power available did allow them a little soft body extravagance with Heimlich the caterpillar.
But inToy Story2 theyre much more apparent, and required to do more acting.
Monsters Inc. (2001)
For very obvious reasons, inToy StoryPixar avoided hair.
Finding Nemo (2003)
In a word, underwater.
It also has some huge external scenes on the island, dwarfing any CGI sets that itd previously considered.
But these were just the tip of a whole CGI iceberg of problems that the complexity ofThe Incrediblesrepresented.
As such, these came with their own problems, not least designing them to move believably.
But lots of other special software technology was designed for this specific film.
The world inWALLEis just one big refuse dump, and WALL-E is just one tiny trash compactor.
