A love of computers and programming – rather than a specific interest in rat hair and dinosaur skin – helped Sanjay Bakshi get his role at Pixar
Sanjay Bakshi has spent a lot of time with monsters. He knows precisely how their hair moves as they terrorise humans, how their eyeballs swivel when they sight their prey, and how their fangs gnash when they eat.
As technical director for Disney's Monsters University he led a team responsible for visualising a population of suitably monstrous students, and then animating them. "The directors gave us some loose drawings to go by, and we had to build them into characters," he says. "There were hundreds so, to distinguish them, we had to give them each a name – so we used the names of the crew. Each crew member therefore has their own monster."
Once, special effects work involved substituting chocolate syrup for blood and experimenting...
Sanjay Bakshi has spent a lot of time with monsters. He knows precisely how their hair moves as they terrorise humans, how their eyeballs swivel when they sight their prey, and how their fangs gnash when they eat.
As technical director for Disney's Monsters University he led a team responsible for visualising a population of suitably monstrous students, and then animating them. "The directors gave us some loose drawings to go by, and we had to build them into characters," he says. "There were hundreds so, to distinguish them, we had to give them each a name – so we used the names of the crew. Each crew member therefore has their own monster."
Once, special effects work involved substituting chocolate syrup for blood and experimenting...
- 12/26/2013
- by Anna Tims
- The Guardian - Film News
Disney and Pixar plan to open doors to a new animation studio this fall in Vancouver, per The Hollywood Reporter. The new studio will focus on non-feature film projects in order to accommodate the increasing slate of projects featuring Disney/Pixar characters and properties. "The operation will be small in size and dedicated to producing short-form quality computer animation for theme parks, DVDs, television and theatrical exhibition ... for several different divisions of the Walt Disney Co.," Disney/Pixar president Ed Catmull said. Amir Nasrabadi, VP/Operations and Finance, DisneyToon Studio, will serve as the Gm for the new facility. Additionally, serving as Creative Director will be, Dylan Brown, who had been a supervising animation director for Pixar (Ratatouille, Finding Nemo), with Darwyn Peachey, currently technical lead on the Ed versions of Toy Story and Toy Story 2, takes on the role of Chief Technology Officer at the new Vancouver facility.
- 5/11/2009
- by gwen@cynopsis.com
Woody and Buzz are heading north.
To accommodate a growing slate of nonfeature projects, Disney and Pixar will launch an animation studio in the fall in Vancouver.
The focus will be on Pixar's legacy characters, including Buzz and Woody from the "Toy Story" films and Lightning McQueen and Mater from "Cars."
"The operation will be small in size and dedicated to producing short-form quality computer animation for theme parks, DVDs, television and theatrical exhibition ... for several different divisions of the Walt Disney Co.," Disney/Pixar president Ed Catmull said.
Amir Nasrabadi, vp operations and finance at DisneyToon Studio, has been tapped as Gm of the new facility, and Dylan Brown -- previously a supervising animation director at Pixar, with credits including "Ratatouille" and "Finding Nemo" -- will serve as creative director. Darwyn Peachey moves from technical lead on the 3-D versions of "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" to chief...
To accommodate a growing slate of nonfeature projects, Disney and Pixar will launch an animation studio in the fall in Vancouver.
The focus will be on Pixar's legacy characters, including Buzz and Woody from the "Toy Story" films and Lightning McQueen and Mater from "Cars."
"The operation will be small in size and dedicated to producing short-form quality computer animation for theme parks, DVDs, television and theatrical exhibition ... for several different divisions of the Walt Disney Co.," Disney/Pixar president Ed Catmull said.
Amir Nasrabadi, vp operations and finance at DisneyToon Studio, has been tapped as Gm of the new facility, and Dylan Brown -- previously a supervising animation director at Pixar, with credits including "Ratatouille" and "Finding Nemo" -- will serve as creative director. Darwyn Peachey moves from technical lead on the 3-D versions of "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" to chief...
- 5/7/2009
- by By Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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