Made on a Mac: Toy Story 3
By Nicole Martinelli (5:15 am, Feb. 15, 2010)
@photo Lee Unkrich
“Toy Story 3″ director Lee Unkrich gave something for his seat mate to gawk at as he sat at 36,000 feet editing the latest animated tale of plaything adventures.
With not a second to waste — the release date is June 18, 2010 – Unkrich worked on a MacBook Pro, with what looks like shortcut color codes for Avid Media Composer. (Crane as I might, all I ever see are Excel spreadsheets. Need to get upgraded from Economy more often, perhaps.)
Apple products often feature in Pixar movies (perhaps in a nod to history?), the trailer for Toy Story 3 already has a nice bit of iProduct placement.
In the third installment of the “Toy Story” saga, owner Andy heads off to college and his parents clear space by packing Woody, Buzz and the gang off to a daycare center. New characters include Triceratops (voiced by “Flight of the Conchords” groupie Kristen Schaal ) whose iMac chat with a dinosaur down the street gets spied on by Woody in this scene from the trailer.
Via Laughing Squid,Pixar
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Tsk. You’d think they would have upgraded their iMac to the new one.
Richard, on February 15th, 2010 at 5:44 am
I have hard time some one will edit a cinema film on a laptop, this thing has hard time dealing with Adobe Flash, and his laptop is old too.
king, on February 15th, 2010 at 6:22 am
@ king
This laptop is MacBook Pro, so quite enough for editing theatrical movies.
Also the editor will most likely use footage that is not full quality, Avid Media Composer has that capability, like every other major editing application.
Being able to edit not full quality footage means less HDD space needed and less CPU power required.
One could even use a PowerBook to do that.
gregory, on February 15th, 2010 at 6:34 am
@gregory
off line editing is the term. Your right, off line video uses compressed low res
versions of the clips.
Loren, on February 15th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Is there another Mac in the front seat pocket?
Alpay, on February 15th, 2010 at 10:42 am
Alpay, that’s what it looks like. Wonder if one is personal, and the other is for work?
Nicole Martinelli, on February 15th, 2010 at 10:46 am
BTW: The Safari in Toy Story 3 has an easteregg in it: 237 ist the room number from the Shining Hotel. See all TS3 Trailer Eastereggs here: http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/02/12/toy-story-3-trailer-easter-eggs-revealed/
Tice, on February 15th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
forget the Mac… that Totoro is amazing.
Will R, on February 15th, 2010 at 9:39 pm
@ Loren.
I know the term, but it wasn’t really necessary for this post. Thanks anyway for spreading the knowledge.
Hmm, I think I have to online this evening. Looking for the vast amount of tapes now.
gregory, on February 16th, 2010 at 7:01 am
So “off line” editing make you edit in low quality, but when you publish it will be full quality?
Not to mention, if I am Disney investing millions of dollars, I wouldn’t be pleased having my film being edited on an airplane, extremely unprofessional, unless they are just testing different outputs or forms for a specific scene
king, on February 16th, 2010 at 7:14 am
King, give it up. At first you didn’t know something…that’s ok. No one knows everything.
But once you learn then the proper thing to do is say “Oh, I’m glad I learned something new.” You’re not suposed to come back with something intentionally stupid just because you simply MUST have a standing complaint on a message board for some reason.
Having the film on an airplane is ‘unprofessional?’ I mean, seriously, could you at least try to make up something that makes sense?
Jeff, on February 16th, 2010 at 8:53 am