WALL-E
March 13th, 2008Here’s the first trailer for WALL-E.
And an observation, compliments of blissbat: “It’s a whole movie about R2-D2.”
Funny she should say that: according to the Wikipedia entry, the sound designer is — bingo! — Ben Burtt, sound designer for Star Wars, which makes him essentially the voice of R2-D2. And to top it off here’s a quote from director Andrew Stanton: “I’m basically making R2-D2: The Movie.”
The lighting and rendering is quite spectacularly realistic. Again, straight from the wiki article:
After directing Finding Nemo, Stanton felt they “had really achieved the physics of believing you were really under water, so I said ‘Hey, let’s do that with air.’ Let’s fix our lenses, let’s get the depth of field looking exactly how anamorphic lenses work and do all these tricks that make us have the same kind of dimensionality that we got on Nemo with an object out in the air and on the ground.’” [...] A cinematographer who worked on live action films was hired to advise Pixar on replicating science fiction films from the 1960s and 1970s, including elements such as 70 mm frames, barrel distortion and lens flare.
I think I need to go take a cold shower after that last sentence.
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March 13th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Actually he makes me think more to a robot called Number5 from the movie Short Circuit (1986). And he got some of E.T.’s clumsiness also. I guess he’s a mix of all the best there’s was in all these characters. And that is a GREAT idea!
March 16th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
Yep — Stanton is quoted as saying that since he did see Short Circuit once, he can’t deny any possible influence. But apparently the major design inspiration came from a pair of binoculars, which he noted looked happy right-side-up and sad upside-down. All you need is eyes!