Finding Nemo will air on ABC's "Wonderful World of Disney" Saturday, June 7th from 8:00-11:00 p.m., ET. with a sneek peek of WALL•E during the movie.

Victor Navone tells us at his blog that the Pixar wrap party for WALL•E is tomorrow night! (June 1st)

The GAMES section of the official WALL•E website is now up and running with 2 new games. The games are called Space Escape and WALL•E's Treasure Round•Up.

WALL•E has officially been given a G rating by the mpaa and you heard it here first that WALL•E has an official runtime of 1 hour 37 minutes and 43 seconds.

You also heard it here first that Presto has an official runtime of 5 minutes and 14 seconds.

Once again you heard it here first that instead of getting an Up teaser trailer in front of WALL•E I am told that we will be seeing a teaser trailer for Disney’s Bolt instead. I'm very upset with that.

Thanks for the above video peetah!

Labels: Andrew Stanton, Pixar, UP, WALL• E, YouTube

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# posted by Gasduude @ 7:47 AM

Social Hollywood was host to the premiere of Ratatouille and Cars on Blu-Ray DVD and IESB.net was there and gave us an awesome report. To read the report just click here.

Some big things that stand out to me about upcoming Pixar projects in this report is that Michael Giacchino confirmed that he’s going to score 1906, and that John Ratzenberger WILL voice a character in WALL•E!

Labels: Pixar, WALL• E

# posted by JV IS TIZ!!! PIXAR @ 4:35 PM

I know Pixar’s one-feature-film-a-year slate is filled up until at least 2012, so when should we expect this film to be released? Well Brad says in an earlier video interview that he is not working either WALL-E (Andrew Stanton's Film), Up (Pete Doctor's film), Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich's film), or John Carter of Mars (Andrew Stanton's other film(s)), so this film is in very early development and so it's hard to say when it will come out, but you can probably expect the film to come out some time in 2011, 2012, 2013, or 2014.

You can watch todays video interview with Brad Lewis, Brad Bird, John Lasseter, Michael Giacchino, Brian Dennehy, and Andrew Jimenez at Collider.com!

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# posted by JV IS TIZ!!! PIXAR @ 2:15 PM

I was fortunate enough to attend a showing of The Pixar Story in Austin, Texas on Sunday, October 14th at 7:00 p.m.


My Mom and I arrived about 30 minuets early to the Alamo Drafthouse S. Lamar in Austin. When we got there, we were surprised how many people showed up. After waiting for about 20 minutes or so we were let in the theater and found some good seats. Instead of your normal theater that has rows of seats in front of you and behind you, the Alamo Drafthouse is set up with tables in front of your seats so you can eat a meal. Waiters come by occasionally and get your orders. My Mom and I ordered a pizza that was really good.

Harry from “Ain’t It Cool News” introduced the audience to Leslie Iwerks (the director of The Pixar Story). We then watched the new WALL•E international teaser trailer. Leslie said we were the first ever to see this trailer on the big screen.


In my opinion, this documentary was really fantastic and very informative! Any Pixar fan would really love it! I learned several things that I did not know about Pixar.


At the end of the documentary, the credits rolled. After the credits there was a Q&A session. The Q&A session had some good questions asked from the audience and all in all was fun.

After the 20 minute Q&A session was over, almost every one left besides the working staff, Leslie Iwerks, some other people, and my Mom and I.

After a little while, I went up and talked to Leslie Iwerks and got her autograph!(see at top of post) I asked her how long it took to make the documentary, she said about 6 years. I also asked her if it will be coming to DVD anytime soon and she said probably in about a year.

After a real fun night, it was time to leave and go home.

Here’s where The Pixar Story will be headed in the coming weeks and months:

October 23-25, 2007

Chicago (Century 35)

Dallas (Magnolia Theater)

Detroit (Maple Art)

October 30-November 1, 2007

Washington D.C (E. Street 35)

New Orleans (Canal Place)

Denver (Chez Artiste)

Seattle (Metro 35)

November 6-8, 2007

San Diego (La Jolla Village 35)

Boston (Kendall Square 35)

Atlanta (Midtown)

Milwaukee (Downer)

Indianapolis (Keystone)

Minneapolis (Lagoon)

November 13-15, 2007

San Francisco (Lumiere 35)

For more information go to www.thepixarstory.com

If you get an opportunity to go see The Pixar Story, I would highly recommend it!

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# posted by JV IS TIZ!!! PIXAR @ 10:54 PM

The swench blog points out that a comment left on the Jungle Book Documentary (and some musings on pacing in animated film) post on the Temple of the Seven Golden Camels blog by a Pixar story artist who says:

CARS ended up a big financial success, (they are making a secqual already because the merchandise have been fenomenal)

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# posted by JV IS TIZ!!! PIXAR @ 5:06 PM

Fantastic Fest, The Alamo Drafthouse, and Ain’t It Cool News will be hosting a screening of THE PIXAR STORY with Director Leslie Iwerks on Sunday, October 14 starting at 7:00pm at The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar Cinema in Austin, Texas!

Please note that this is a free screening and is open to invitees only. If any additional seats are available, they will be given out on a first come/first serve basis, 10 minutes before showtime.

Kid Policy: 18 and up; Children 6 and up will be allowed only with a parent or guardian. No children under the age of 6 will be allowed.

Tickets to this screening will be free. However, tickets will be offered to invitees only. To become an invitee you can email Lars from The Alamo Drafthouse with the phrase "Alice's Egg Plant" in the header and he will send an Evite to as many people as he can fit in order of his receiving email.

Attendees must be present 30 minutes before showtime to ensure admission. If any additional seats are available, they will be placed on sale 10 minutes before showtime.

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In this JV PIXAR NEWS excusive investigation on Pixar’s recent registered website domain names for Pixar upcoming films, I have researched and found these website domain names that Pixar have registered in the past few years:

Ratatouille Websites:

RATATOUILLE.COM

RATATOUILLETHEMOVIE.COM

RATATOUILLEDVD.COM

WALL-E Websites:

WALL-E.COM – Created on 10-Nov-2006. Expires on 10-Nov-2009

WALL-EDVD.COM

Up Websites:

UPTHEMOVIE.COM - Created on 11-Nov-2003. Expires on 11-Nov-2007.

WILDERNESSRANGER.COM - Created on 12-Jun-2007. Expires on 12-Jun-2009.

Toy Story 3 Website:

TOYSTORY3DVD.COM

John Carter of Mars Website:

JOHNCARTEROFMARSTHEMOVIE.COM – Created on 14-Aug-2007. Expires on 14-Aug-2009.

Pixar Unreal Movie Sequel Websites:

TOYSTORY4DVD.COM

TOYSTORY5DVD.COM

FINDINGNEMO2.COM

FINDINGNEMO3.COM

THEINCREDIBLES2.COM

THEINCREDIBLES3.COM

So those are the entire website domain names that I could find that Pixar have registered in the past few years. If you have found any more registered domains that I have not put up here then please e-mail at jvpixarnews@yahoo.com. Thanks and have a great day!

Labels: Pixar, Pixar Website

# posted by JV IS TIZ!!! PIXAR @ 8:35 PM

On Saturday, December 1, 2007 from 11am-2pm Pixar Animation Studios presents “Behind The Scenes At Pixar”. A special family day on the Pixar campus, featuring three hours of screenings, special screenings in the main theater of Pixar’s short films, classes, and demonstrations taught by Pixar staff. This event will be benefiting The Emery Ed Fund.

Ticket Cost:

$100 per person community member

$250 per person community supporter

$1,000 Patron-includes four tickets & additional benefits

$5,000 Sponsor-includes ten tickets & additional benefits

For ticket and additional information visit www.emeryed.org, pr call (510) 601-4911

If you are going then have fun!

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# posted by JV IS TIZ!!! PIXAR @ 10:24 PM

The Spline Doctor's blog has posted up an interview with one of Pixar’s director, Pete Docter! This Spline Cast is also available on iTunes.

The interview is pretty solid and interesting overall. Enjoy!

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# posted by JV IS TIZ!!! PIXAR @ 7:11 AM

I had the great opportunity to exclusively interview Pixar's Andrew Gordon!

Here is the interview. I hope you enjoy it!

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I know you’ve worked on A Bug’s Life, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and just a little bit on Cars for Pixar, can you tell me your experience on working on those films?

What can I tell you... Working at Pixar has been great. We try to make really good films and the people care about the art of animation very much. I just passed 10 years at pixar. Looking back there are alot of great memories. I feel like the old building in Point Richmond was sort of a termite terrace type place. There was something special about that. Moving to the new building changed things, not in a bad way, but just changed. The next big change was Disney buying us. All in all, working on these films has been a great pleasure.

Did you work on Ratatouille?

I did work on Rat. I worked mostly with the character Linguinni. I did some of the shots where he is drunk, some when he is trying to tell Collette about the rat that is helping him cook and the shot when he is bringing his bike into this apartment.

What’s your favorite thing about animating for Pixar?

My favorite thing about animating at Pixar is exploring different characters. Thats what its all about. Performance. Entertainment. The exploration process is a fun part. Its also fun to finish it and take some time away from it.

What’s your favorite Pixar film to date?

My favorite pixar film... Hmmmm, I guess the Incredibles. It was a great film to work on.

Many of us are interested in getting into the field of animation and would love to work at Pixar. Could you give us some recommendations on how to go about doing that (education, work experience, etc.)?

Getting a job at Pixar... Well, you need to figure out what it is you want to do, and become really good at it. If its animation, go to a college like Cal-Arts and learn to animate on paper before you touch the computer. Then you really just need to pay your dues and get experience. In the end, to become an animator at a place like Pixar, you need to have good acting chops, good physicality in you work and most importantly a good attitude. Its hard to not be a fan boy when you come here, but its important to be humble and just put your head down and work.

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I asked a few more questions and the reply’s was “no comment”. You might be able to guess what those questions were.

I want to thank Andrew Gordon for doing this interview with me. You can visit his blog by clicking here.

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# posted by JV IS TIZ!!! PIXAR @ 11:36 PM

The news has been slow lately, but today I noticed that Amazon.com has the Cars Blu-ray DVD now available for pre-order. The price is at $24.49 and the release date is scheduled as planned for November 6th.

Also now available for pre-order on Amazon.com is the Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1 on Blu-ray and normal DVD and is to be released on the same day as the Cars Blu-ray DVD and the Ratatouille Blu-ray/DVD, November 6th. The Blu-ray DVD costs $24.49, and the normal DVD costs $22.49.

Labels: Blu-Ray DVD, Cars Blu-Ray DVD, Pixar, Short Film

# posted by JV IS TIZ!!! PIXAR @ 7:04 PM

Here's an exclusive interview with Pixar Technical Director Neil Blevins. Enjoy!

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When did you first come to Pixar?

I joined Pixar in 2002 to work on the Incredibles.

What's the best thing about working at Pixar?

Working with cool people, working on films that have excellent stories, and producing pretty pictures. Also, Pixar has a very family friendly environment.

To sum it up quickly, what is a Technical Director’s duty in the pipeline?

There are lots of different types of TDs. Some do modeling, some do shading, some do FX, some do lighting, some do set dressing. I am currently working in sets, so my task is to model and shade props and environments for a film (I’ve also done FX, and some other jobs as well).

How long do you work on the average project (movie)?

An average film takes about 4-5 years. But the first few years is a much smaller team, just the director, the story department, and some concept artist. Since I’m on the 3d side of things, I usually start working on a film about 2 years before completion, and work on it till the end.

What should a person aspiring to be a TD do in terms of courses, study, college, etc.?

It depends on what sort of thing they’d like to do. Many of the TDs at Pixar have computer science degrees, and use code to get their job done. A few of us are more 3d artist types who have a stronger art background. I personally have a fine arts degree, and then worked at a smaller studio as a generalist. So I’d recommend going either the computer science route, the art route, or a mix of the two.

What is your favorite Pixar film?

The Incredibles, although Monster’s Inc comes in at a very close second (I always shed a tear when Sulley has to say goodbye to Boo at the end of the film). But it’s tough to choose, since so many of our films are so good.

What is your favorite Pixar short film?

For The Birds. I love the character design, the simple color palette, and the sassiness of the birds. It’s a great gag.

Did you work on Ratatouille?

Nope, it’s quite common for people to skip a film or two, depending on which department they’re in, and how many people are needed for a film.

We’ve heard rumors of a Cars 2. Can you say anything about this?

Us Pixarians don’t participate in rumor mongering.

What are you working on right now?

Our next film, WALL•E, making environments.

How much does the average Pixar employee know about Pixar websites, blogs, etc.?

It depends very much on the individual. Personally, I don’t read much on Pixar specific blogs, but I do visit lots of cg related forums such as CGtalk. So if something gets posted there from a Pixar blog, I may follow the link.

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Here's Neil Blevins website: http://neilblevins.com/

I'd like to thank Neil for his time, we truly appreciate it. Thanks!

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Tonight I had the opportunity to exclusively interview Pixar Animator Victor Navone!

Here is the interview. I hope you enjoy it!

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I know you worked on Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Cars for Pixar, can you tell me your experience on working on those films?

It would take more time than I have to go into any detail about the last 7 years of my career at Pixar. Suffice to say that every director is different to work with, and every film presented different challenges and lessons. I've enjoyed working with a wide variety of characters and styles, and I have the deepest respect for all Pixar's directors. Of all the films

I've worked on; The Incredibles was probably the most enjoyable, though I'm really having a great time on WALL-E right now.

Did you work on Ratatouille?

I only did one shot, and I had to beg for that one (I was officially assigned to WALL-E at the time). I did the shot of Linguini and Colette roller-skating down the sidewalk. She starts to spin and fall, and he scoops her up and they skate off together. Bomb Voyage is doing mime in the background, but I didn't animate him or Skinner in the foreground.

What’s your favorite thing about animating for Pixar?

The environment and the people. Well, that's two things, but they're kind of inseparable. The culture of learning and sharing at Pixar is really nurturing to the creative process, and it makes it a fun place to work.

What your favorite Pixar film to date?

Either the original Toy Story or The Incredibles. Ratatouille and Toy Story 2 are right on their heels, though.

Many of us are interested in getting into the field of animation and would love to work at Pixar. Could you give us some recommendations on how to go about doing that (education, work experience, etc.)?

The most important thing is your demo reel. A degree is fine, but your work has to speak for itself. How you go about getting the skills you need is up to you. It should be noted, though, that Pixar often hires animators who have previously served internships with us, so that's one advantage of getting formal animation training. I have a lot more advice on my web site:

http://www.navone.org/HTML/3dadvice.htm

There have been rumors there’s going to be a Cars 2, what your comment on that?

If I knew the answer to that I wouldn't be able to say!

Do you know if Brad Bird’s next film will be for Pixar? I know it’s 1906 and it will be live-action, but what I don’t quite know is if it will be a 100% Pixar film.

I don't know if it will have the "Pixar" name on it. Probably not, though. It may just be a "Disney" film, or perhaps Miramax.

What film(s) are you currently working on?

I've been on WALL-E for over a year, and will probably be on it through the spring. After that, who knows...

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I want to thank Victor Navone for doing this interview with me. You can visit his blog by clicking here.

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