This was created by animators at Lucasfilm in 1984. It's pretty amazing for 1984. If you contrast this with the cool but cruder animation from TRON only 2 years earlier. I wonder how long this took to make? I think I read around the time Toy Story came out it took the computer 30 hours to draw one frame and there's 24 frames a second. Toy Story was obviously way more visually complicated.
The short was directed by John Lasseter who became one of the main creative forces behind Pixar. Apparently George Lucas sold off a Lucasfilm department which eventually became Pixar. I wonder if he regrets it?
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video no longer available... but i found it easily on youtube.
pretty interesting to see how it all started.
speaking of pixar - i'm dying to see wall-e... anyone seen it yet? thoughts on it? grade out of 10?
because if rotten tomatoes is to be trusted, it should be amazing.
It seems the video is 'no longer available'.
Good for people to know.
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