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Pixar Animation Studios is a well-known creator for movies, shows, and short films. They have made films such as Toy Story, The Incredibles, and WALL•E. Pixar animators are the storytellers of legend. Their tale is a long and hard one, with trials and speed bumps. Through the hard times they have faced, Pixar has remained victorious. The company has gone through an amazing transformation and really has become one of the wonders of the digital age. In the beginning, it was George Lucas, the…

All over the world, music is a part of almost people that they can’t live without it. Classical music, folk music, non-lyrical music are some of the most beautiful kinds of music. Music can help people boosting their moods, encouraging, or refreshing them. However, everything always come out with two categories: “good and bad”. In recently world, music runs along with the trend taste of young people. The desires are increasing, so three quarters of the songs come out with non-sense lyrics songs,…

Jingnan Zhang English 3: Block Ms. Bunosky February 15, 2017 Archetypes in Toy Story One doesn’t usually watch movies and critically think about what is happening in it, but when one analyzes thoroughly, the audience can find some impressive things in the plots of these films. In the movie, Toy Story 3, the audience can clearly see a set of archetypes through the characters. Woody would be considered the hero, Buzz can be seen as the innocent person, and Lotso can be seen as the ruler/dictator…

Traditional medicine plays a major role in the healthcare system in rural sectors of India. This type of medicine involves the utilization of herbal products to maintain balance in one’s body to prevent illness. The medicinal traditions of Ayurveda and Siddha have been considered to be originated in India and have played an important role in the healthcare system for many centuries after previously being used for therapeutic purposes. “The World Health Organization estimated that 80% of the…

Judith Halberstam has a very unique perspective on animated childrens films. She made up her own term called “pixarvolt”. The way she explains pixarvolt is “a new genre of animated feature films that use CGI technology instead of standard linear animation techniques and that surprisingly foreground the themes of revolution and transformation.”(Halberstam 29) In other words, she is identifying different ideas and theories within the typical animated children's film and grouping them together. It…

The Complex Definition of Animation Technically Animation means brings life to or act of bringing life to. Not in the context of giving birth, but adding quality or making something more vivid. In the realm of graphic arts animation brings life to an image or object by projecting movement from something that was originally still and adding sound. Almost every form of animation starts with a drawn image or created object that is transformed into an animation. The classic form of animation,…

Robot Do Things In the 2008 Disney/Pixar film: WALL-E,. And it's good. Andrew Stanton co-wrote the film with Jim Reardon. Stanton, who directed Finding Nemo, had already had some writing and directing experience when it came to animation, and he does a good job handling this movie. The movie is about a little robot named WALL-E, which stands for "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class". He is the last of his kind on Earth and just goes about his day compacting trash and collecting little…

Animation To start with it would be needed to know what animation is. The dictionary definition of animation is “A technique used in motion pictures or video production, produced frame by frame, in which inanimate objects, such as cartoon drawings or puppets, appear to move of their own accord” , which is an overcomplicated way of saying making it look like a drawing is moving. Animation in the past half-century has made leaps and bounds in terms of improvement to reach where it is today. Such…

Have you ever wondered where you will end up in the future? Where you want to be, who you want to be, or what you want to do? When I grow up, I want to work at Pixar making the scenes and characters that you see in the animated movies. It’s a long road to get there, but it’s one that I’m willing to take. To create the movies you see in the theaters, Pixar uses Blender (not the one on the kitchen counter), Gimp, and many physical art forms too. Blender is where you create the models, animate…

What if one was to tell you that some of your favorite childhood movies were interrelated? The Pixar theory is a mystery to many. In each movie, there is significant evidence of how they all are connected in the same universe. The theory originated from Jon Negroni, who wrote a novel that broke down the idea. It all started with Brave, which follows Merida, a skilled and courageous archer as she defies her father, Scottish King Fergus. Although Brave (2012) is not the first Pixar movie to…