Speaking today at this year’s SIGGRAPH computer graphics industry conference, Pixar co-founder and president Dr. Ed Catmull, who is also president of Walt Disney Animation Studios, talked about the future of both studios, emphasizing that Pixar will continue to focus primarily on animation.As part of the day’s events, Catmull also announced an exciting research and development venture being undertaken by The Walt Disney Company in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) in an effort to develop "the next generation of sophisticated technologies" with applications across all of Disney's many units, including Pixar. The project will include the founding of two Disney Research Labs at the above mentioned educational institutions.
About Pixar’s foray into live-action effect creation, first for Brad Bird’s 2009 flick 1906 (a co-production with Warner Bros.) and then for Andrew Stanton’s next project, John Carter of Mars, the Animation World Network (AWN) quotes Catmull as saying:
"We've got two projects coming where there's a live action element. But our view is not that we're trying to diversify; it's more that we've got a creative vision to try something different, and we want to support that vision. Whether or not it goes beyond that we don't know, but we don't want to turn Pixar into a live action studio. In fact, the intent is that the special effects will not be done at Pixar… We are not trying to become a special effects company."
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Well even the Fred Willard plates in Wall•E were done by ILM, so that makes sense...
So how are they going to be involved in 1906, when they're not doing the special effects or live action?
Just because Ed said that they weren't becoming a live-action studio doesn't mean that they're not making an acception for these two films.
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