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Pencils Vs Pixels

I heard about this incrediblegroup of computer graphics specialists that George Lucashad...

I heard about this incredible
group of computer graphics specialists that George Lucas
had assembled at Lucasfilm, that he wanted to sell

Full Transcript

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I heard about this incredible group of computer graphics
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specialists that George Lucas had assembled at Lucasfilm,
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that he wanted to sell.
Duration
12 seconds
Views
44
Timestamp in Movie
00:37:30
Uploaded
Apr 16, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Minutehand Pictures,Hideout Pictures,Pencilish Animation Studios

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Movie Summary

It is a celebration of the unique magic of 2D hand-drawn animation and an exploration of how the Disney of the late 1980s and early 1990s led to an animation boom that was quickly upended by the computer animation revolution that ...
And so I went up there and saw what they were doing - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
And so I went up there and saw what they were doing
WEN: In 1972, Ed Catmull and Fred Parke - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:15
WEN: In 1972, Ed Catmull and Fred Parke
The pioneering techniques used here - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:13
The pioneering techniques used here
A film that came out was Great Mouse Detective. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:05
A film that came out was Great Mouse Detective.
And there was the first foray into doing - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
And there was the first foray into doing
And that was a one engineer and one animator - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:16
And that was a one engineer and one animator
They printed them out on a sheet feed plotter. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
They printed them out on a sheet feed plotter.
Hand fed the 24 field paper. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:06
Hand fed the 24 field paper.
And because our goal at the time was - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:15
And because our goal at the time was
You can't tell how this is done to celebrate the Walt - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
You can't tell how this is done to celebrate the Walt
So it was printed on paper, Xerox on cels, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:10
So it was printed on paper, Xerox on cels,
Based on the success of that film, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
Based on the success of that film,
It wasn't in the basement somewhere - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:06
It wasn't in the basement somewhere
And like a seed, they just put it there. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:05
And like a seed, they just put it there.
And we had an engineer and some tech people who - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
And we had an engineer and some tech people who
And they started to get the animators interested in it. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:06
And they started to get the animators interested in it.
It really was the Wild West of software, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
It really was the Wild West of software,
And literally grappling and pivoting, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:10
And literally grappling and pivoting,
Technology is always a tool to serve the art form. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:05
Technology is always a tool to serve the art form.
And in many cases in the trajectory - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:10
And in many cases in the trajectory