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post #1 of 10
9/16/08 at 5:21pm
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http://chud.com/articles/articles/16...ION/Page1.html

Great report. I am one of those people that would kill to enter that building.
Animation has been one of my favorite genres since my very early childhood.

And it's good to hear that the movie looks promising and that the whole department was shaken by Lasseter.

And the perspective joke was good.
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post #2 of 10
9/16/08 at 5:30pm
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I know that the Grinch isn't a Disney character, but I'm not really a cartoon guy, so I don't know who the Disney equivalent would be.
Cruella de Vil ?

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That was a year ago, and this film has hurtled to the finish line at a pace very unusual for an animated movie. And it sounded like it was refreshing for many of those involved. 'This is as close to guerilla filmmaking as you'll get with a movie like this,' an animator told us, and he was excited by that. I get the impression that the very, very long development process for animated films can wear you down and make everything sort of become stodgy and well-worn and boring. For the folks working on Bolt - even the ones who carried over from American Dog - things never had a chance to get dull.
I'd be interested to hear more about this. How did they move faster? What's their "guerilla" version of animation? Animation is way different from live-action. You can't just "fake it" or "grab one more take during lunch". Everything is created from scratch (unless they borrowed or recycled assets/elements from their other features or other scenes, which Disney has done before). Sure, you can settle for an un-perfected shot, but really, throwing more people on it (or work longer hours) is the only way I can think they could pick up the pace... Like CGI, like the video game industry. Course, we still say "9 women can't push out a baby in 1 month".

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post #3 of 10
9/16/08 at 5:39pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
Cruella de Vil ?

Correction: Cruella de Vin

Should have given me a holler, Devin. I could have given you an exciting tour of the Corporate Controllership office and showed you some spreadsheets in progress.
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post #4 of 10
9/16/08 at 5:41pm
Nice run-through, Dev.
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post #5 of 10
9/16/08 at 5:45pm
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Originally Posted by Ratty View Post
Correction: Cruella de Vin
Perfection.
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post #6 of 10
9/16/08 at 5:54pm
The animation looks stellar, but I dunno, the story (as presented in the trailer) does nothing for me. It looks very cookie cutter in that aspect, like routine Disney Channel pap (especially the dialogue). Chalk me up as forever longing for American Dog, which at least had pretty awesome character design.
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post #7 of 10
9/16/08 at 9:54pm
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I could have given you an exciting tour of the Corporate Controllership office and showed you some spreadsheets in progress.
Hot Macro action! Oh man, I could just cream in my jeans at the site of those merged books. Goddamn!
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post #8 of 10
9/17/08 at 2:02pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
Cruella de Vil ?

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I'd be interested to hear more about this. How did they move faster? What's their "guerilla" version of animation? Animation is way different from live-action. You can't just "fake it" or "grab one more take during lunch". Everything is created from scratch (unless they borrowed or recycled assets/elements from their other features or other scenes, which Disney has done before). Sure, you can settle for an un-perfected shot, but really, throwing more people on it (or work longer hours) is the only way I can think they could pick up the pace... Like CGI, like the video game industry. Course, we still say "9 women can't push out a baby in 1 month".


I know people on it. They have been working massive OT for a year or more at this point. That's how they've done it.
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post #9 of 10
9/17/08 at 2:14pm
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I know people on it. They have been working massive OT for a year or more at this point. That's how they've done it.
That's not really "guerilla". That's "par for the course" in that industry.
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post #10 of 10
9/17/08 at 8:10pm
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That's not really "guerilla". That's "par for the course" in that industry.
It's not guerilla nor par for the course with the type of OT they've been putting in. It's just 'we changed our minds and oh shit we need to fix some stuff' excessive.
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