Unlike the earlier benefits, the bulk of last night's presentation was done by one guy--Michael Johnson, a Pixar technical guy who's also a board member at the museum. That was fine; he did a great job, giving a talk that was about both Pixar's film-making process and its perspective on the world.
I find some bits of that perspective really inspiring.
He began by stating three Pixar rules of success:
1. Casting, casting, casting. (ie, nothing is more important than the team you hire)
2. Hire people smarter than yourself.
3. Art as a team sport. ("51 percent is plays well with others.")
* Johnson said that all Pixar productions begin as 2D ideas. Some of the artists who work on ideas like to use real-world art materials; others work digitally, using Wacom's Cintiq tablets. That's fine: "We take no position on paper."
* He showed a great little film about all the work that went into giving The Incredibles' Violet plausible long hair. It had never been done before and was a huge technical challenge: "Violet's hair brought this production to its knees."
* Random quote: "We don't want real-looking humans--they're kind of creepy...reality is just a useful measure of complexity."
Tell it, brother.
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