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Pencils Vs Pixels

What became Pixar AnimationStudios was originally an experimentaldivision of Lucasfilm and...

What became Pixar Animation
Studios was originally an experimental
division of Lucasfilm and George Lucas and
his friend Steve Jobs had equal degree of interest
in the possibilities that this new approach presented to them

Full Transcript

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What became Pixar Animation Studios was originally
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an experimental division of Lucasfilm
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and George Lucas and his friend Steve Jobs
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had equal degree of interest in the possibilities that this
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new approach presented to them.
Duration
22 seconds
Views
35
Timestamp in Movie
00:37:04
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 ...
I don't think they fully envisioned - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
I don't think they fully envisioned
I heard about this incredible group of computer graphics - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:12
I heard about this incredible group of computer graphics
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,