New York Pixar Exhibit

[Terro]

Thats right if you live in New York, make your wy down to the Museum of Modern Art and let me know about this Pixar deal. Sounds like a fun trip.

[Lion_O]

Cool!!! Dangit. Wish could go but I'm in LA, whomever does go do report on the goings on tho. :D

[goldlion]

Terro - if I get a chance to go to this and they let me take some pix I'll send them to ya for posting. Cross ya fingers.

[jackhalfaprayer]

Holy crap! It ends the 6th... I'll see if I can make it this weekend.

[jackhalfaprayer]

Today was the last day of the exhibit, I made it just in time for the last few hours. I only got a couple of candid pics before they warned me they'd take it away. Pixar's got copyright issues.

The exhibit was freaking amazing, so much stuff of such astounding quality. I'll post my pics when I get the chance.

Btw, how do I post pics into a thread? Host em on imageshack and paste the html...or what? :confused:

[Terro]

Image shack wont allow you to display the images hosted there directly in the thread. You can post a link to the image shack image or if you have a web site, upload it there and use the little image button in the reply window to insert a image link.

[munch]

use photobucket if you need too ;)

[NOOB!]

yeh photobucket will allow us to see the pics inside the forum.

man i wanna see!!!

[Monsieur Rat]

Can't wait for the pics. Damn my living in Europe, and New York is my favourite city too... :( oh well, hope they're good pics man

[jackhalfaprayer]

I assure you, these pics do no justice to the exhibit. For one, it's a friend's digital camera so I had to keep it on auto. And for another, the shots I did get were stealthy splinter cell ordeals entailing misdirection and ninja powder.

First, the pamphlet:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f68/jackhalfaprayer/PIXAR.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f68/jackhalfaprayer/pamphlet1.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f68/jackhalfaprayer/pamphlet2.jpg

I flipped through it and immediately got pumped for storyboards and sequencing. I hit the entrance and snapped some quick shots. They had this huge wall of color studies of the tank fish in Nemo:
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f68/jackhalfaprayer/fishcolorwall.jpg

And a bit beyond that a few cases of maquettes:
Sully (early sully in the back had tentacles):
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f68/jackhalfaprayer/sully.jpg

Evil kid from Toy Story, even more evil looking with a Pinhead grid:
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f68/jackhalfaprayer/evilbilly.jpg

Lamp mouth maquette (awesome):
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f68/jackhalfaprayer/lampmaquette.jpg

Then I proceeded downstairs to theaters one and two (to the meat of the exhibit.) Down the wall of the escalator were enlarged frames of Lasseter's rough animation of Andre. I am ashamed I didn't think to snag a shot of this : /

And here I hit some real concept stuff, a huge digital print of the Incredibles waterfall, collages, paintings... This one caught my eye, to compare to the maquette:
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f68/jackhalfaprayer/lampoil.jpg

And bam! Cameras not allowed, Pixar's orders.

Sorry so few and so poor, I did my best for youse who aren't in NYC. Here's a final scan to make up for it:
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f68/jackhalfaprayer/pamphlet3.jpg

I'll say my favs of the exhibit were a) an animatic of the Incredibles sequence of Dash running from/fighting those flying disc things. The animatic was so professional and so polished, it could've been the early polish shots of a 2-D feature. I'm talking motion blur, animated characters, composites of early 3-D. Just really solid work. b) "color story" work on nemo and toy story. I wasn't aware of this style of pre-production, but it's really wonderful. Essentially, its long strips of story in full color pastel (gorgeous pastel work, really) kinda strung together as if flowing to the next bit of story ala a graphic novel. I think it's an advanced way of color testing through entire sequences.

There was a lot more work! I don't think I found everything in two and a half hours, but I will say they spread some stuff out too far into the other galleries.

Great exhibit. The MoMA book was out of stock and out of print :( Gotta gets my hands on one of those.

[NOOB!]

whoa thanks for sharing man,its looked great!!

[Bussman]

woah holy hell!!!

Thanks bro for these!

[jackhalfaprayer]

my pleasure :D

[Terro]

Thanks Jack, I really hope they bring this exhibit down to Chicago. Thanks for the teaser, lol.