Animated Films.
Help! I'm a Fish
The film follows the adventures of three children, Fly who is a skateboarder, his sweet younger sister called Stella and their cousin Chuck who is overweight and intelligent. When Fly and Stella's Mother and Father go out, Chuck's Mother Aunt Anna is babysitting for them all and she falls asleep, they all sneak off to go fishing only to stumble across the boathouse home of Professor MacKrill who is a marine biologist saying that climate change will melt the polar icecaps within the next century, Professor MacKrill has developed a potion that turns people into fish so they can survive the rising sea level and also an antidote to reverse the process.
Toy Story
Woody is a pull string cowboy doll and also he is the leader of a group of toys that all belong to a boy called Andy, which act lifeless when humans are present. With Andy and his family moving homes one week before his birthday, Woody and all the other toys stage a misson to discover Andy's new presents. They find out that Andy recieved a spance rangerBuzz Lightyear action figure, Buzz is then replacing Woody as Andy's favourite toy. Woody feels left out because Buzz has started getting all the attention from all the other toys.
Animation:-
Toy Story was the first fully computer animated film. The film began with animated storyboards to guide the animators in developing the characters. 27 animators worked on the film, using 400 computer models to animate the characters. Each character in the film was either created out of clay or was modeled off of a computer drawn diagram. Once the animators had a model and the motion contorls were coded allowing each of the characters to move in different ways, such as talking, walking or jumping. Woody was the most complex character as he required 723 motion controls including 212 for his face and 58 for his mouth. Every shot in the film passed through the hands of eight different teams, the art department, layout department etc.
Animation:-
Toy Story was the first fully computer animated film. The film began with animated storyboards to guide the animators in developing the characters. 27 animators worked on the film, using 400 computer models to animate the characters. Each character in the film was either created out of clay or was modeled off of a computer drawn diagram. Once the animators had a model and the motion contorls were coded allowing each of the characters to move in different ways, such as talking, walking or jumping. Woody was the most complex character as he required 723 motion controls including 212 for his face and 58 for his mouth. Every shot in the film passed through the hands of eight different teams, the art department, layout department etc.
UP
By tying thousands of balloons to his home, Carl sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. He meets a young boy call Russel, who is a wilderness explorer and he eventually becomes a stowaway.
Animation:-
Pixar usually designs their characters to be caricatured. The elderly individal in the film called Carl was not given elderly features such as hair in his ears etc but by giving him wrinkles, pockmarks on his nose, a hearing aid and a cane make him appear more elderly. The individual that created Carl wanted to push a stylized feel, espeshially the way Carl's head is proportioned, he has a squarish apperance whilst Russel the young boy is shaped like a balloon. The challenge of making UP were so that the characters felt natural.
Animation:-
Pixar usually designs their characters to be caricatured. The elderly individal in the film called Carl was not given elderly features such as hair in his ears etc but by giving him wrinkles, pockmarks on his nose, a hearing aid and a cane make him appear more elderly. The individual that created Carl wanted to push a stylized feel, espeshially the way Carl's head is proportioned, he has a squarish apperance whilst Russel the young boy is shaped like a balloon. The challenge of making UP were so that the characters felt natural.
The Lion King
In the pride lands of Africa, a lion pride rules over the other animals in the animal kingdom, who celebrate the birth of the future king Simba. Simba's father King Mufasa gives him a tour of the pride lands, teaching Simba the responsibilities of being a king and also warning him about the place beyond the borders. Simba's evil uncle Scar who longs to be king, tells Simba that the place beyond the borders in a elephant graveyard. Simba and his best friend Nala another lion cub go to the place.
Animation:-
The animators studied real life animals too help them with this film. They even asked Jim Fowler, renowned wildlife expert to visit the studios on several occasions with an assortment of lions and other inhabitants to discuss behaviour and help the animators give their drawing a real life feel.
The Pride Lands are modelled on the Kenyan national park which the crew visited.
Animation:-
The animators studied real life animals too help them with this film. They even asked Jim Fowler, renowned wildlife expert to visit the studios on several occasions with an assortment of lions and other inhabitants to discuss behaviour and help the animators give their drawing a real life feel.
The Pride Lands are modelled on the Kenyan national park which the crew visited.
Avatar
By 2154, humans have severly depleted Earth's natural resources, the RDA mines for a valuable mineral unobtanium - on Pandora, a habitable moon orbiting the gas giant. Pandora who's atmosphere is poisonous is inhabitated by the Na'vi, 10 foot tall, blue skinned, sapient humanoids who live in harmont with nature and worship a mother goddess called Eywa.
Animation:-
A number of visual effects techniques were used in the production of Avatar. Work on the film had been delayed since the 1990's to allow the techniques to reach the necessary degree of advancement to portray the vision of the film. The director planned to use photorealistic computer generated characters using motion capture animation technologies.
Animation:-
A number of visual effects techniques were used in the production of Avatar. Work on the film had been delayed since the 1990's to allow the techniques to reach the necessary degree of advancement to portray the vision of the film. The director planned to use photorealistic computer generated characters using motion capture animation technologies.
Monsters Inc
Monsters Inc is a 2001 American computer - animated comedy adventure film. The city of Monstropolis is inhabited by monsters and powered by the screams of children in the human world. At the Monsters, Inc. factory, the employees are called "Scarers: venture into children's bedrooms to scare them and also to collect their screams, using closet doors as portals.
The top Scarer is James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, who lives with his assistant Mike Wazowski and has a rivalry with the ever-determined chameleon-like monster Randall Boggs. During an ordinary day's work on the "Scarefloor", another scarer accidentally brings a child's sock into the factory, causing the Children Detection Agency (CDA) to arrive and cleanse him. Mike is harassed by Roz the clerk for not completing his paperwork on time.
Animation:-
The top Scarer is James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, who lives with his assistant Mike Wazowski and has a rivalry with the ever-determined chameleon-like monster Randall Boggs. During an ordinary day's work on the "Scarefloor", another scarer accidentally brings a child's sock into the factory, causing the Children Detection Agency (CDA) to arrive and cleanse him. Mike is harassed by Roz the clerk for not completing his paperwork on time.
Animation:-
Shrek
Shrek is a 2001 American computer animated fantasy comedy film.
Shrek is a terrifying green ogre that has always enjoyed living in a peaceful solitude in his swamp, he then finds his life disrupted when thousands of various fairytale characters are exiled into his swamp by order of the evil, fairy-tale hating Lord Farquaad. He then brings along a talking donkey called Donkey to go on his journey to see Lord Farquaad and Lord Farquaad says you can only have your swamp back if you go rescue Princess Fiona from the fire breathing dragon at the top of the tower.
Shrek is a terrifying green ogre that has always enjoyed living in a peaceful solitude in his swamp, he then finds his life disrupted when thousands of various fairytale characters are exiled into his swamp by order of the evil, fairy-tale hating Lord Farquaad. He then brings along a talking donkey called Donkey to go on his journey to see Lord Farquaad and Lord Farquaad says you can only have your swamp back if you go rescue Princess Fiona from the fire breathing dragon at the top of the tower.
The Little Mermaid
Ariel is a 16 year old mermaid princess, she is curious about the human world. With her best friends Flounder Ariel collects human artifacts and goes to the surface of the ocean to visit Scuttle the seagull, who offers very inaccurate knowledge of human culture. Ariel ignores the warnings of her father King Triton and his adviser Sebastian that contact between merpeople and humans are forbidden, longing to join the human world and become a human herself.
Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo is a 2003 American computer animated comedy drama adventure film.
Two clownfish called Marlin and Coral are admiring their new home in the Great Barrier Reef and their eggs are due to hatch in a few days, all of a sudden a barracuda attacks them, leaving Marlin unconscious before eating Coral and all but one of their eggs. Marlin names this egg Nemo, a name like Coral liked.
Two clownfish called Marlin and Coral are admiring their new home in the Great Barrier Reef and their eggs are due to hatch in a few days, all of a sudden a barracuda attacks them, leaving Marlin unconscious before eating Coral and all but one of their eggs. Marlin names this egg Nemo, a name like Coral liked.
Ratatouille
Remy is a rat, gifted with highly developed senses of taste and smell. Inspired by his idol who is called Chef Auguste Gusteau. Remy's dreans of becoming a cook himself. When his family is forced to abandon their home, Remy is separated from them and ends up in the sewers of Paris. He then hallucinates the sprit of Gusteau and takes his advice to look around outside, eventually finding himself at a skylight overlooking the kitchen of Chef Auguste Gusteau.