Pixar "UP": How to animate lots of baloons

[AJ]

I can't remember who said it, but a while ago one of the Pixar directors mentioned how with each film they seem to have to pick out some technological problem/achievement (crowds, hair, water, food...etc) before the press seem satisfied.

So when I saw this, I laughed out loud.

[Stimpy]

"Geek Gestalt" ? really ? how very zeitgeisty.

[JoshBowman]

I can't remember who said it, but a while ago one of the Pixar directors mentioned how with each film they seem to have to pick out some technological problem/achievement (crowds, hair, water, food...etc) before the press seem satisfied.

So when I saw this, I laughed out loud.

Remember hearing/reading that interview when i read that headline as well :D woohoo baloons!

[angelmax]

What about clouds, as also in the short Partially Cloudy. Is clouds also a field where they researched or is it coming from previous solutions?

Max.

[Beden]

15 people for 6 weeks for the scene where the kid runs his fingers through his hair! Now thats attention to detail.
No wonder the flick is A#1.You have to love Pixar.

[lebada]

thatsa lotta people and a lotta time. Looking forward to it this or is it i think next weekend coming out. But then again...."The Hangover" is coming out and something tells me most of my friends are gonna skip the kiddy flick.

[Dennik]

Sometimes I think they lose the point when it comes to technical details vs telling a story but I'm sure when they have to justify a 150mil budget, the money has to go to some new R&D.
Hey Pixar, how about making someone eat a fully animated spaghetti for next movie! :scream:

[SmallPoly]

I would have been very surprised if they didn't use a physics simulation for the balloons.

[Bonedaddy]

Says they used ODE, which was recently introduced into Houdini.

6 weeks isn't too bad, honestly. I think every major show, live-action or animated, has a handful of effects that take months to put together.

I think the original Shrek spent like 2 months on a 3.5 second shot of some milk, getting the SSS implementation correct. I'm sure similar amounts of research were spent on various foods in Ratatouille that didn't get a ton of screentime. At least the balloons are pretty prominent. :)

[SoLiTuDe]

Says they used ODE, which was recently introduced into Houdini.


I think it said they actually DIDN'T use it as they could only push like 500 baloons, as opposed to the 10,000 they needed. Either way it's cool that they use ODE at all... perfectly fine when the need isn't there for something more complex.

[Bonedaddy]

I think it said they actually DIDN'T use it as they could only push like 500 baloons, as opposed to the 10,000 they needed. Either way it's cool that they use ODE at all... perfectly fine when the need isn't there for something more complex.

Whoops, missed that. Teach me to multitask.

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