During one lecture, our professor brought in Professor Lance Winkel as a guest lecturer. The man had been inspired and motivated into the field of animation through the older film of the movie Transformers. He is now a kind of human version of a textbook about animation. What really prompted me to write this log about Pixar films was the fact that the man who was contracted by Disney and who was pioneering 3D animation was "fired" when his contract was up and is now leading the animation team over at Disney. I would say that is quite a turn around and a good reason to start a blog about the fruits of labor after having a door sort of shut in your face.
One of the first exposures I had with Pixar had to have been Toy Story. If there was something previous I was exposed to that came prior to that, I might not have realized it was a Pixar film... or my sense of chronological history of films is a bit off. I have since been a huge fan of the Toy Story series, once playing a Super Nintendo game as a child and following on the sequels up until the last, Toy Story 3, which made me cry. Click for a little trailer of the original Toy Story to get a sense of how amazing Pixar films are if you haven't for some reason seen any! The trailer which Professor Winkel showed of an archaic baby modeled after his own child and what came to be the idea for the storyline was pretty unreal compared to the 3D animation and special effects we see in movies today.
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