Henry Selick, who directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, and Coraline, is at the head of a new animation studio in San Francisco. Shademaker Productions, previously called Cinderbiter Productions, is pulling together talent now for its first film, a movie also called Shademaker, and there are already some impressive names involved…
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Earlier this month we featured some of Pixar artist Lou Romano's amazing color script for Pete Docter's Up. But at the time it was very low res, a broad overview of the color board. Romano has now posted high resolution scans of all of the panels of the Up color script on his official blog.…
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For every Pixar movie, a color script is created, which is essentially an at a glance look at the color keys and tones for the entire film. A color script gives you a good look at how the color arcs in a film relate to the story. Lou Romano created the color script for Pete…
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Pixar loves to hide Easter eggs in their films, little references to movies and characters from the animation studio's past and future.
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There is nothing I love more than early concept art. To be able to see what a film could have been, or maybe was originally intended to become (for example, Ralph McQuarrie's art of Luke Starkiller, complete with the crazy air respirator mask). Lou Romano, a member of the art department at Pixar Studios, has…
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Disney has released a bunch of new character stills from Pixar's presentation of Ratatouille. Check them out below: Official synopsis: Academy Award®-winning director Brad Bird ("The Incredibles") and the amazing storytellers at Pixar Animation Studios ("Cars," "Finding Nemo") take you into an entirely new and original world where the unthinkable combination of a rat and…
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