The 2010 edition of Pixar's RenderMan Walking Teapot was finally revealed at its Official Fan Club on Facebook this evening.Dylan Sisson tells me that this year's design is based on Mr. Potato Head and that he modelled it —"his hat, eyes, and mouth"— using ZBrush digital art creation software.
Sisson created the first Walking Teapot in 2003 as an homage to the "Utah Teapot" created in 1975 by computer graphics researcher Martin Newell. Newell's teapot model is a standard reference object and famous in-joke in the CG community.
Keeping with tradition, 1000 of the collectable windup teapot toys will be given away each day at Pixar's RenderMan booth at SIGGRAPH 2010 next week, starting at 1 PM on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. A complete schedule of RenderMan-related events at SIGGRAPH can be found at Pixar's website.
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Is there going to be a pixar booth or is it only going to be a pixar render man booth
That Teapot is so cool. I love anything Mr. PotatoHead, which is one of the main reasons I love the Toy Story movies.
mike do advertisers make enough for monthly bread???
Only in my dreams. Ha!
ah, well, too bad. make enough to go see ts3 again?
So...why were people trying to trade me for my red one? Were there more of the blue variety?
Teapot is awesome this year. Does anyone know why people were trying to trade me for my red teapot?
According to the numbers on the certificates, there were 2000 Green Teapots, 1500 Blue Teapots, and 500 Red Teapots.
I think a lot of people were trying for a red one... http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1450945&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=114826081870108&aid=-1&id=1420180864
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