INSIDE OUT Progression Image (3 of 7). CHARACTERS – Character creation begins with modeling, a process of translating the character’s overall form into the computer. These forms are then articulated to allow them to move. If called for, hair and clothing are added. The final step, shading, involves applying textures, colors, patterns and other material properties that will add complexity. This image shows the characters fully modeled, articulated, shaded and ready to be placed in a scene. ©2015 Disney•Pixar. All Rights Reserved.
INSIDE OUT is so much more than your typical animated family comedy—EVEN by Pixar standards…
It’s also Pixar Animation Studios first new movie in two years.
It’s captivating, bittersweet and, of course, colorful.
INSIDE OUT’s intriguing story follows 11 year old Riley as she tries to cope with the trauma of her family’s move from Minnesota to San Francisco where her dad is about to start a new job.
It goes without saying the ordeal is a lot to take for a tween.
The challenges of a new school, new home, new friends, new lifestyle, a new hockey team—you get the picture.
That’s a lot to digest for a young girl’s brain.
Which is exactly where a good portion of the movie takes place.
Namely in Riley’s head where a panel of ‘experts oversee and control her behavior patterns. Sharing a master control desk and database of memories, the five emotions take their turn at the controls if and when a situations turns south for Riley. And they sure seem to head in that direction.
All of which makes for quite a lineup of mind bending experts calling the shots and adjusting the animated emotions.
Leading the pack of five head trips is the emotion known as JOY. She’s kind of the brains behind the operation (sorry about that one) and voiced brilliantly by Amy Poehler.
SADNESS at the master control is overseen by Phyllis Smith while DISGUST is controlled by Mindy Kaling.
FEAR? Who better than Bill Hader to shine here.
Which leaves one final emotion, ANGER. With who else but the voice of Lewis Black to do it justice.? This is one of Pixar’s most original creations yet!
Hats off to director-writer Pete Docter for pulling it off. His past Pixar offerings were UP and MONSTERS, INC.
This film is conceptually captivating and plays to all ages. But parents in particular will get just a little extra out of it. It REALLY hits home. And does it ever deliver!
I saw the movie earlier this year at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas.
And to say that this was a jaded audience would be a gross understatement. But when the lights came up at the end, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
This is the world of the parental bond complete with turbulent adolescence as presented cleverly by the Walt Disney Company’s Pixar Animation Studio unit.
With a solid A-score, INSIDE OUT is not to be missed.
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Personally, I don’t think you can go wrong with a Pixar movie. This one sounds like another winner.
And they are making Incredibles 2! Good Times!
when digital illustrations, cartooning, and animation first arrived, this particular “dumbo” was sloooowww to accept. growing up on Disney animated films, the gold standard in their day (and not too shabby by today’s), I nearly scoffed at them. indignant at their challenging the painstakingly hand drawn and coloured cells, one micro-movement at a time.
but…as technology and skills progressed, I had to acknowledge the future was here. and impressive it was. every bit as intricate as the old ways, and requiring no less the skill and talent of a master illustrator.
tho’ I have no way of knowing what Walt Disney would think of the new technologies, I have to believe he would have embraced them. for it isn’t so much what the characters and backgrounds look like or how they were created, it is, and was for him, all about telling a good story and engaging the imagination.
in that, as Gayle noted, Pixar excels.
(they made a short several years ago about a unicycle on sale in a bicycle shop. it’s been on TV a gazillion times. but if you haven’t seen it, seek it out. worth the time.)
And I think that’s the beauty of them: just when you’re immersed in the story and the technology of it, they woop you up side the head with some life lesson that melts your heart.