My evening with Pixar

Trailer

The idea

Little Mike with big dreams...

"Like Mike, you have to look past who you want to be to discover who you can be"

@MrDanScanlon

“I love the idea that it’s never too late to change what you want to be.”

Dan Scanlon

“Animators at Pixar show their original Pixar rejection letters like badges of honour”

Dan Scanlon

The story

Mike and Sulley didn’t start off as BFFs...

The movie

“Making a movie at the Studio is never a straight line”

Kori Rae

Research & Ideation

Sketches & iteration

For Sulley they also went through a series of di!erent iterations...

Dean Hardscrabble

Monsters University

The Pixar pipeline...

1. Storyboarding

100,856 in total

2. Concept boarding

3. Modelling

4. Layout

5. Animation & Crowd simulation

5. Final lighting