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CHAPTER 9 The film Monsters, Inc. posed new challenges for the Pixar animators. MAKING A COMPUTER- ANIMATED FILM Pixar had three wildly successful films under its belt. Lasseter had transitioned from being the only animator in the early days to leading teams of animators as director. He had shared the director’s credit on A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2. But 78
MAKING A COMPUTER-ANIMATED FILM now he thought others were ready to step into the director’s role. He chose animator and longtime Pixar employee, Pete Docter, to direct the next movie. Docter’s initial idea for the film was that the monsters kids imagine in their closets at night are real. From this, the Pixar team developed Monsters, Inc. By this point, Pixar was working like a welloiled machine. The team had worked out the kinks in its process. It knew the best way to take an idea from concept to finished film. To do this, a film goes through a series of stages. These are the same stages that every Pixar movie now goes through. Each one involves collaboration, teamwork, creativity, and critical thinking to solve “I think when [the process of making a movie] becomes collaborative is the point at which technical and artistic problems. the film takes on a mind of its own, and you realize I’m not DEVELOPMENT leading this, I’m following it. It’s The first stage of making a Pixar my job to shape it and move it along, but everybody’s in service film is development. This is when of the film, even the director.” 1 the story line gets developed. —Pete Docter, Director, It begins with what is called a Monsters, Inc. and Up pitch. One of the Pixar employees pitches, or describes, his or her 79
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THE COMPANY AND ITS FOUNDERS by A.
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CHAPTER 1 John Lasseter uses a grap
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PIXAR Pixar debuted their short fil
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PIXAR animations of those images. B
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PIXAR SOUND AND IMAGE Luxo Jr. was
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CHAPTER 2 Ed Catmull dreamed of usi
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PIXAR A SUCCESSFUL ACADEMIC PLAYGRO
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CHAPTER 3 John Lasseter, left, and
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