VIDEO & ARTICLE: Pixar & Schools of the Future
Pixar University's Randy Nelson talks about Learning and Working in the Collaborative Age. This interesting video clip from Edutopia is great discussion fodder re: ed policy.
For follow up reading I highly recommend the article Animating a Blockbuster: How Pixar Built Toy Story 3 in the May 2010 Issue of Wired Magazine.
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Permalink Reply by Michele Vogt-Schuller on
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Thanks for this Ryan - for some reason I couldn't get the audio (but I'll go to Edutopia and find it!) - as you probably know, I LOVE Pixar and am completely enthralled by their process; one of the best things about their UP cd was the extras (I personally think this is their masterpiece, although I liked TSIII, I only saw it once, which, for me, is unusual - but I did cry) - especially when their artists take a trip to South America to look at the topography there. Every time I go to Berkeley to visit my sister, I drive by their studios in Emeryville and pay homage......
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Goble on
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MVS! Have you made sure your volume is up / off mute? Just asking :) Also finally saw Poyno last week - I do like Spirited Away more but I think there were some really show stopping scenes in Ponyo! Thanks as always for joining the discussion!
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I actually had it up - I even had my crabby in-house consultant (my 14 year old son) check it for me (he was mumbling almost under his breath about how clueless and inept I am with technology). Anyway - one of the things I like about Miyazaki is that he doesn't fill his movies with junk to make them longer. Although most of his movies are loooong for animated films, Ponyo was very short. There's also a form of acceptance in the movies, for example, when the mom character discovers Ponyo, she doesn't think about whether or not she should take her in, she simply does. Most directors would have make this one of the issues in the movie (should she or shouldn't she????) - the adults also believe what the children tell them, no matter how improbable or strange it might be. Imagine, if you will, a "family" comedy starring Eddie Murphy and Scarlett Johanson (as the impossibly young mother of teenaged children) whose child finds a fish/person and brings it home. Most of the movie would be filled with "wacky" scenes trying to hide/make parents believe/etc....that the fish/person is REAL and HUMAN even though they're DIFFERENT. Sorry to off on a tangent. But one of the reasons why I LOVE these movies is that just isn't done.
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That is a very astute observation - I hadn't even thought about this idea of acceptance. Very cool point. Although, I must say, Ponyo's dad was pretty wacky :)
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They always need a bad guy - but very often he or she is not too bad....
The not so bad people: the witch/big head thing in spirited away, the warrior woman in Princess Mononoke (sp). Real bad guys: the dude (voiced by Luke Skywalker/Mark Hamill) in Castle in the Sky. I also think he likes wacky dudes (Howl's Moving Castle) - voiced by Christian Bale who I think is a real wacky dude. -
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I thought he was an extra from Pricilla Queen of the Desert :)
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