TotalFilm has an an article/interview with WALL-E director Andrew Stanton which features a bunch of new concept art, as well as the cute photo of WALL-E and the rubix cube seen above. Click on all the images after the jump to enlarge.
The only interesting tidbit from the article comes when Stanton talks about how live-action footage will be integrated into the computer animated film:
“There’s been a lot of conjecture about the humans in WALL-E, but I want to make it clear: we’re not compositing them like the characters in Happy Feet. In fact, the human characters in Ratatouille are more complex than in this movie. We found a way to make the real-world footage [of the musical Hello Dolly! and of Fred Willard as the president of mega corporation BuyNLarge] incorporate smoothly into the animated film thanks to some hybrid production design. The rest of the human characters are what our race has evolved into, basically human blobs - living couch potatoes.”
We saw some of the musical footage superimposed on a television during the footage screened at WonderCon, and it was seemless. And believe me, I was one of the people who was really distracted by the live-action human characters in Happy Feet.
Thanks to UpcomingPixar for the scans, which we cut into neat digestible portions.
February 26th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Amazing when a bunch of inter-dweebs pop boners of Diablo Cody when whip cream on, yet a fucking Wall-E post and I can nearly hear crickets.
THE ART of this is amazing. I seriously can’t wait anymore.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Wall*E is my desktop background now. I really cannot wait for this. My local theatre just got a 5 foot tale cardboard cut out of wall-e and I’m really thinking about taking it now… ha.
February 27th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Those photos look great! Cool to see the sketches of Wall-E. I liked hearing Andrew Stanton at Wondercon say that Wall-E was designed based on the labor he has to do in the story. It shows you how much thought they put into everything.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
These are my scans i sent to Upcoming Pixar :)
April 1st, 2008 at 10:12 am
Those paintings are by Production Designer Ralph Eggleston, who was art director on Toy Story, The Incredibles, and production designer of Finding Nemo.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:34 am
i sent the articile to upcoming pixar there my scans of the articile :) and there all over the net too!!