Toy Story 3 in Imax — Pixar Films

[Zephyr]

[Zephyr]

I just saw Toy Story 3 in an Imax theater on Saturday — how do you feel about this movie, the Toy Story trilogy, or Pixar films in general? We can also discuss other animated films or share opinions regarding the current state of the animation industry. Post away!

Here are some Toy Story 3-related clips that I found amusing:
Clip 1
Clip 2
Clip 3 (Contains some plot spoilers)

[Bob]

I have not seen it yet but one of my CVS customers came in my store crying talking about how good she thought it was
I’m not sure if I will be able to afford to see it

[KoishiiKitty]

HTTYD blew me away. I’m picky on the animations I watch. story plus original character design and graphics. How to Train Your Dragon delivered that completely for me. The artistic characterization bled through the CG so nicely, it reminded me of watching a nice edgy cartoon. The detail quality in the renderings were really impressive.

They really payed attention to the different dragon species fire types. Meaning they did not stick to the ‘flame thrower’ classic. Instead they used some other not so common in animation ideas and rendered it so wonderfuly I was drooling! You had your plasma blast with a sound shock lovely un-fire like glow. Then your liquid fire, that dripped in a sticky fluid, and your gass fire that had a high explosive affect.

Scale renderings and skin on the dragons was also stunning. For making then so stylized, they really gave a very convincingly belivable scale patterns, and skin. From a fierce Croc scutes, A nice pebble skin like moniter lizards to spiney Horny Toad spikes, And even a nice warty one. Of course the detail on Toothless’ unique shark black scales was interesting.

Other detail points: The engineering of the sadle of toothless. There was a lot of thought into a workable sadle that would let a dragon move. I was really surprised when I watched the movie because I was expecting the generic,” We have no idea how the sadle is staying on, but just make belive it is super glued there!” So I was very pleased with the details they added to that that really made you not have to over look that. I was really studying that sadle the second time I watched the movie.

Lighting. Lets just say the use of lighting on textures was eyecandy.

Story: I was thuroughly happy, that they kicked out some, a lot really, stereotypical hero boy/animal ideas! Actualy almost everything goes wrong! They even gave you a nice, more realistic ending to the hero’s plight. There is none of this,”I’ll never achieve anything,” find a dragon,” My destiny is to be a hero and save every one, I can do this!” It’s more like,” I have no idea what I am doing, but this is kinda cool. Alright lets try this out………*epic failure moment*……..that did not go as I planned….” I just loved that aspect. The personality of the dragon really helped this as they did not make it humanly intelligent. They brought out a lot of animal reactions instead, which made him very uncooperative a LOT of the time and lead to these oops moments.

This is hands down my current favorite 3d animated cartoon, I saw it 2 times in theater and will be buying for sure when it comes on blue ray.

I am biting at the bit for the Guardians of Ga’Hoole to come out.

[Adaneth]

You’re making me really want to see that movie again, KoishiiKitty–definitely a MUST have on dvd. I really appreciated the thought put into making up for the dragon’s messed up rudder-fin.

I saw Toy Story 3 in 2d this last Saturday and just LOVED it. (Movie tickets cost enough already that I think I’m going to restrict the extra 3d price to live action/hyperreal computer generated films in the future that seem worth it).

I love Pixar. My respect for their creative genius knows no bounds. Trifle biased, perhaps. 😉

[Zephyr]

KoishiiKitty wrote:

HTTYD blew me away. I’m picky on the animations I watch. story plus original character design and graphics. How to Train Your Dragon delivered that completely for me. The artistic characterization bled through the CG so nicely, it reminded me of watching a nice edgy cartoon. The detail quality in the renderings were really impressive.

Thank you so much for the recommendation KoishiiKitty. :yes:

For anyone who has seen Toy Story 3: Wasn’t the Pixar short “Day and Night” brilliant? I certainly wasn’t expecting anything like that. 😀

[Pegasi1978]

Add me to the list of folks who enjoyed TS3. Saw it in 2D with the family on my birthday. Quite fun and I’ll admit there were scenes that had me in tears. Quite happy with the conclusion to the series.

Great thing for me is I can actually hug some of my old toys. I managed to keep them out of the yard sales through the years and they are still in pretty good shape for being ~25 years old.

[Bob]

they might be worth some money then

[Author]

Posts