Pixar

Today’s discussion on Pixar really got me going and I enjoyed it tremendously. Talking about a company as great as Pixar was inspiring and uplifting after these last few weeks. Their practice of having the director head up the whole project and give them free reign away from the constraints of a focus group or investors.

Seeing a company do this instead of selling out to just make money was refreshing. Pixar always pushes the envelope in how amazing their films are cinematically. Brave was just another great movie in a long line of great movies. Besides be aesthetically beautiful it was a great story that really was a nice story about a princess that didn’t follow the usual princess story that Disney pursues. It was refreshing and original.

Pixar really shows how a big studio can keep integrity and still make amazing films that are world spread and make phenomenal sums of movies. To work in an environment like that would be a blessing and I hope to work in that environment someday.

The short films that Pixar does are an incredible way to showcase new skills and new abilities of animators. When watching “For the Birds”, “Geni’s Game”, and “Luxi Jr.” I was inspired about how you can really show off a great deal of talent in a short amount of time, even in live action. I used to have an aversion to short films and think they were rather silly, but now I have a new respect for them that I used to not have.