Show of hands.

Was Pixar the first thing to come to mind at the start?

Pixar-perfect timing.

I actually only saw Coco a few days ago, after the video was done. It wouldn't have made my top 10 even if I had, though -- I quite enjoyed it, but I'd rank it somewhere in the middle of Pixar's filmography (though if I had a list of the top 10 movies of 2017 that made me weep like a little girl, it'd be right up there).

So Pixar can't stop.

Perhaps the theme of the movie is keeping babies with superpowers entertained long enough that they don't destroy the world.

Doesn't Kim like Pixar's animated movies?

Your video, New Pixar short -- Dante's Lunch, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

I'm not sure why it took off the way it did, but the University of Utah had a huge influence on the history of computer graphics. The founders of Silicon Graphics, Adobe and Pixar all came from there. And if you're into computer graphics you have probably heard of algorithms named after Gouraud, Phong, and Blinn, all of them were Ph.D students in the 70s at the school. It just seems like a crazy amount of foundational work took place there over the course of 20 years.

http://www.cs.utah.edu/about/history/

Saw it in theaters. Glad all the animation houses are stealing Pixar's idea of open with a short.

Can't think of any pixar work that doesn't deserve a *promotion

"Pixar: What if toys had feelings? What if monsters had feelings? What if feelings had feelings?" - Somebody else

I loved this film. and I cried like a baby at the end.

From the Pixar movie, Up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R58kSuIhURI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWU5M1q0WqU

I just know/work with the tech intimately, and I'm showing my aversion to PR videos. Their claim is *technically* true insofar as they had to write the software to do it the way they wanted to, because that's how they do things (and well; zero criticism of Pixar here). It certainly would have been more technically challenging to animate it with the tools of 2003, but whoever said it wasn't possible for technical limitations works for marketing, not art or animation.

"Pixar says Hank the Octopus wasn't possible with the technology available 13 years ago for "Finding Nemo.""

Well... not really true, but it is quite good! I laughed out loud at the kitten poster gag.

I followed my passion and it worked out. Grew up in a bunch of small oil towns in Canada, no where near any big cities in the 80's and 90's(oil is where most of my friends from that time ended up and look where that's gone.) I really liked to draw and had a lofty goal to work in visual effects for film, which was a VERY difficult, niche thing at the time... very unrealistic to get into. People laughed when I was getting a bachelor's degree in fine art in Uni because there was no money in it. Long story short, I'm doing quite well, have worked on many films at several companies including Pixar, and am currently working on the next Starwars at ILM. People from my childhood can't even believe it, but that's the difference between following a passion and "applying passion" to what seems a sensible, realistic choice.

Following a passion may not lead you to where you expected to go like the post above, but there is no right and wrong decisions, just choices that tell the story of your life. All you can do is negotiate the fork your currently at, with some loose idea of where you want to go and you'll go somewhere interesting. Maybe I should have been a fucking motivational speaker...

Yay for skillful animation. I still wish it weren't channeling pixar so completely, but I think this is actually superior character animation, in a lot of ways. Yay for not being MoCap!