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Would anybody be interested in buying prints from my art??? I could really need the extra money lol

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Richard Burton & John Hanning Speke | Mountains of the Moon (1990) | Part 2/2

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james burton, glen campbell & the wrecking crew, 1964

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These were meant to be stickers

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Squideo’s Favourites: Toy Story

Pixar Animation Studios arrived with a bang when its first feature-length film, Toy Story, was released in 1995. What would follow was a franchise beloved by children, spawning multiple spin-offs, theme park rides, video games and merchandise. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards, Toy Story is now considered one of the best animated films of all time.

Toy Story is credited with opening up the world of 3D computer animated films, which still rules the industry to this day. With the sponsorship of Disney, Pixar used this technology to create a film that visually stood apart from everything else at the box office and helped complete Pixar’s journey from a small computer division at Lucasfilm to an award-winning studio that has produced some of the best animated films of the past thirty years.

We’re diving into the production behind this animated film, exploring the style and techniques which came together to create this compelling story. In the meantime, if you have an idea for an animated video of your own get in touch with the Squideo team.

Creating a Story

To any fan of animation, Buzz Lightyear and Woody are well-known characters. Yet without Tinny, who reached nowhere near as much fame, they may never have graced our screens.

Pixar Animation Studios had produced a number of animated shorts before it ventured into feature length production, starting with Luxo Jr. (which introduced Pixar’s mascot). Red’s Dream followed, but it was Tin Toy that caught Disney’s attention. Financed by Steve Jobs, Tin Toy was a five-minute short created and directed by John Lasseter. Seen through the perspective of a toy running away from a destructive infant, Tin Toy laid down the groundwork for Toy Story – another Lasseter creation.

Disney had only recently allowed films to be made outside its own production company, starting with Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

In a 2011 interview with Entertainment Weekly, [John Lasseter] said: "Disney kept trying to hire me back after each of the short films I had made. I kept saying, 'Let me make a film for you up here.” They always said, 'No, a Disney animated film will always be made at Disney.' They had no interest in doing an outside project." Lasseter continued: "What changed their mind was Tim Burton. Tim and I went to college together, and he had developed a feature idea called 'The Nightmare Before Christmas.' He went on to become a successful live-action director and was trying to buy 'Nightmare' back from Disney. And they said, 'Why don’t you just make it for us?' That opened the door for Disney to think of these niche animated films that could be done. They said, 'Okay, we’re willing to talk with you. We’ve got puppet animation going [with Tim Burton] and now we’ll be willing to develop the computer animation.' They said to come back when we had an idea. So we started thinking…" John Lasseter

3D computer animation developed alongside CGI in the 1970s, but a fully created computer animation television show or film didn’t debut until the 1990s. Yet animation companies, including Disney, had already played with the new technology before then. The Great Mouse Detective (1988) was the first Disney film to extensively use CGI: creating a two-minute sequence which was heavily promoted in the film’s marketing.

Their CGI was developed in cooperation with Pixar, the two companies coming together to make CAPS, the Computer Animation Production System which was relied upon heavily during the Disney Renaissance.

The technology was new, which put giant animation studios at a disadvantage. Their artists were trained in 2D animation techniques, leaving a void for computer companies who had the expertise to utilise this new technology.

Animation Style

The use of this new technology resulted in a film that looked vastly different from everything that predated it. Not only did 3D computer animation provide greater realism, but the independence of these early animators also meant they were not constrained by an existing “style” favoured by a company.

To this day, animated characters start life at Disney as 2D concept drawings which influences the style once it is converted to 3D. Pixar on the other hand is at home in that format, and their animators create greater complexities and detailed textures in their work.

“There are differences between Pixar and Disney. If you reduced Pixar to a phrase it would be: ‘Wouldn’t it be cool if?’ Like if a kid was looking at their toy: What if the toy could talk? All their films are like this. If you reduced the Disney films it would be: ‘Once upon a time…’.” Glen Keane

The filmmakers designed the minor characters using memories of their childhood toys, but the two leads were a different story. Woody and Buzz Lightyear went through several redesigns, along with the addition and removal of multiple human characters. Thankfully, Disney brought Joss Whedon onboard as a co-writer after reviewing the initial drafts. Now best known for directing and writing Marvel’s The Avengers (2012), Firefly (2002) and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), Toy Story was his first hit for which Whedon shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

Because 3D computer animation was so new, even the lead actors didn’t know what the film would look like. Tom Hanks, who voiced Woody, said: “The shading and the light and its starting to look crisp and clean it looks surreal and real, it had a really neat 3-D quality to it without that fuzzy eyeball stuff.”

While Tim Allen, who voiced Buzz Lightyear, said: “When I first saw it I thought, 'I don't know if kids are gonna buy this, adults especially not, it's too high tech, it looks too much like a video game. And they got the second generation, third generation, it started looking slicker and slicker and then they finally finished with a shot of the soldiers going 'one, two, three, let's go!' and they went down the rope, wow! What a view!”

Pixar’s software was key to the animation of Toy Story. From RenderMan to Menv, the latter of which has since been replaced at Pixar by Presto, it took over 400 computer models to make the film. And it was worth every second of development. Toy Story showed the world that – not only was Pixar the new kid on the animation block – but that they also held the key to the future of animated film.

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Nightmare Before Christmas works really well as an allegorical autobiography of Tim Burton’s own struggles with ‘cute’ art early in his career, where his attempts at the Disney house style while working on Fox and the Hound, even with help from someone talented and nice like Glen Keane, just resulted in foxes that looked like roadkill in his own words.  There IS something uniquely devastating about trying to make nice, polished, conventionally visually appealing art and instead making an uncanny mess of it.  

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Ed Wood (1994, Tim Burton)

05/04/2024

Ed Wood is a 1994 film by Tim Burton, inspired by the life and cinematographic works of Ed Wood, defined as "the worst director of all time". The role of the director is played by Johnny Depp.

Presented in competition at the 48th Cannes Film Festival, the film, freely inspired by Rudolph Grey's biography Nightmare of Ecstasy, received two Oscars and numerous other awards. This is also Tim Burton's first feature film without music composed by Danny Elfman, due to creative differences between the two. The director chose composer Howard Shore.

In 1952, the young and penniless artist Edward D. Wood Jr. runs a dilapidated theater company, and is looking for funds for his debut in the world of cinema. When he learns from Variety Magazine that the producer George Weiss is looking for a director to shoot a biographical film on the events of Christine Jorgensen, he enthusiastically goes to Weiss asking him to direct the film, certain that the fact that he also loves wearing women's clothes can represent a point in his favor.

Wood accidentally meets one of his idols, the elderly actor Bela Lugosi and accompanies him to his home, starting to form a sincere friendship with him. By promising him that Lugosi will be part of the cast for little money, she manages to convince him to direct the film about Jorgensen, which now has a new title: Glen or Glenda.

His girlfriend Dolores Fuller advises him to produce his new film alone.

The shooting of the film thus ends and the film is renamed Bride of the Monster. To make matters worse, it turns out that Bela Lugosi was a drug addict.

Wood manages to convince the religious congregation to which his landlord belongs to entrust him with the money allocated to produce a film on the Apostles of Jesus to make a science fiction film, letting him understand that with the box office receipts the capital would multiply allowing him to make many films with a religious background. The new film is called Plan 9 from Outer Space and Wood reuses some impromptu scenes shot by Lugosi before his death by having Kathy's chiropractor, Dr. Tom Mason, impersonate him for the remaining scenes.

The making of the film was disastrous to say the least due to the tantrums of the first actress, Vampira, the interference of the Baptist producers, the chronic lack of funds and not least the casual charlatanism of Wood, who didn't care in the slightest about how uncredible were the acting, the scenes and special effects. One day, in the throes of a nervous breakdown, Wood goes drinking in a bar, where he meets his idol Orson Welles, who is also worried about the troubled production of a film. The film ends with Ed Wood attending the premiere of Plan 9 from Outer Space, where he is greeted by enthusiastic applause from the audience, and then leaves the theater with Kathy and goes to Las Vegas and gets married.

Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski conceived the idea of writing a screenplay about Ed Wood's life while studying at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

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Cat Power, Glen Hansard & more covered Sinéad O'Connor & Shane MacGowan at rehearsal for Carnegie Hall benefit (pics, video)

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Cat Power, Glen Hansard & more covered Sinéad O'Connor & Shane MacGowan at rehearsal for Carnegie Hall benefit (pics, video)

A star-studded benefit show honoring the late Sinéad O’Connor and Shane MacGowan happens at Carnegie Hall tonight (3/20), and ahead of that, many of the participating artists played a rehearsal show at City Winery on Tuesday (3/19). The loose, casual rehearsal was led by Tony Shanahan (who played in the house band), and included Billy […]

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Gram Parsons: Grievous Angel

Reprise K 54018

Released: January 1974

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Remembering Alan Arkin 1934-2023

Oscar-winning actor Alan Arkin has died at 89.

Among my favorite performances of his are Wait Until Dark (I later saw the play with Quentin Tarantino playing Arkin's role as the thief), as Larry on some early episodes of PBS's Sesame Street, as the Dad in Edward Scissorhands, the highly underrated The Rocketeer, as George in Glengarry Glen Ross, as the LOL police captain in So I Married an Axe Murderer, as the nervous psychiatrist to the hit man in Grosse Pointe Blank, as the father of the fighting sisters in Sunshine Cleaning, as the Hollywood producer in Argo (he had the great line "Argo Fuck Yourself") and in Tim Burton's Dumbo. But he won the Oscar (one of 4 he was nominated for) for 2006's ensemble film Little Miss Sunshine as the cranky father evicted from a retirement home for snorting heroin. He stole many a scene in the films I just mentioned!

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

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Richard Burton & John Hanning Speke | Mountains of the Moon (1990) | Part 1/2

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From The Casual Company to Plan 9 From Outer Space Ed Wood was America's quirkiest if not worst director. Read all about him now on our website.

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James Burton & Glen Campbell in the studio.

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January 10, 1970

In the RCA studio on Sunset in Las Vegas the rehearsals began. Ronnie Tutt had been unable to reach an agreement on salary and was replaced by Bob Lanning. James Burton recruited his friend Glen D. Hardin on piano. Cissy Houston too, has departed to be replaced for a time by Ann Williams in The Sweet Inpirations.

Elvis wanted to change the repertoire from his first Vega appearance. So Proud Mary, Polk Salad Annie, Walk A Mile In My Shoes and Sweet Caroline were added to the show, including some songs from his own recently recorded work.