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"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts." - Winston Churchill

    Behind every great animated production, are thousands upon thousands of ideas that make the story a whole. The concept is what makes a movie, the first idea is what starts it all. Once the idea has the O.K to go on to a production, hundreds of people go to work and work off of that one sketch and idea. Going on to thousands of different tones and feelings for certain scenes or developing characters that make the movie rich.

    When the production and character designers are creating ideas for the story, they learn not to become to attached to a certain concept, because it can be rejected, put on the back burner or just simply not used in the big picture. To make the story as wonderful as possible, only the best, well thought out ideas make the cut. In the grand scheme of things, all of the ideas that weren't used actually helped the story become what it is. It takes brave people to do what they do, to think of an idea and let it go if it doesn't work then move on to the next idea.

From the beginning to the end, from the first spark of an idea to a full length feature, it all starts with a concept.
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So.... I've been super inspired to create Disney/Pixar related art recently!!!!
I'm open to any and all requests that relate to Disney/Pixar!
Some of my most recent work is inspired by Brave. I saw the movie and it was AMAZING!!!!! I have never seen animation so gorgeous.
Ever since I watched my first Pixar movie, I was amazed by what the animators do to make them move. Toy Story, being my first Pixar movie, I watched that when I was about 5 or 6. Ever since then, I've had a growing curiosity on how the animators make the characters move and how they incorporate lighting into a scene. Since I've always loved to draw, this was and still is a huge question to me. Everyone that works at Pixar is so educated in what they do, whether it be editing, storyboard, camera, lighting, etc. Whatever they do, they are passionate and dedicate every waking hour to the movie they are working on. This is shown in all of their movies. But I noticed in Brave, the attention to every detail, every movement of every hair strand and every small piece of fur. Everything moved as if it were real. (I'm not going to spoil the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it yet), but even in one scene where I saw the most amazing detail I've ever seen. In this scene, towards the end of the movie, the lighting was changing from night to day, there were men on horses holding torches. The lighting is very rich here, intense light and darkness, small sparks from the torches and the shine off of swords, showing the flickering of the fire. Since almost everyone in this scene was on horseback, the movement of the characters was very different than what it would be in they were on foot. The movement was bumpier, the horses were standing, moving slightly, taking one step back then pawing the ground, making the rider holding the torch move slightly. The light of the torches was glimmering on the large rocks and the grasses that were blowing in the breeze and moving along with every hoof step and foot step. As the sun began to rise behind the mist and the trees, the lighting was beginning to drastically change. The torches began to dull and the grass shimmered with dew. The large rocks gained intense dimension with the sun shining directly on one side and shade on the other. The grain of the rock had shade where there were little bumps and dips. The swords brightened. The people in this scene had as much attention to detail as all of the objects. Merida, in this scene had incredible lighting. Her hair being as real as ever, her emerald green dress torn and dirty. The lighting for her is difficult, there was a lot of moving around and changing direction for her in this scene, so every object in the scene had a play in what shined where and when. The rocks, the torches, the swords, the sun and even facial expressions had a role to play in where light and shadow would be on her. For one part for this scene, Merida shows intense anger towards someone. Before the sun rose, she was facing torches, the rocks were behind her, she was holding up a sword. Which that sword was shading a small part of her face and dress. The other sword that was facing her, also blocking part of the light. Her facial expression had many areas of shadow, her eyebrows, her nose and even her hair provided shadow. You can see this image in this link here pixarplanet.com/blog/images/15… If you can see the intense shadow in her hair. The light in the front and darkness in the back. Certain curls are shown in light, even in the back of her head. As the sun began to rise, everyone in this scene had wonderful light and shadows. Merida in particular, her hair shining in the sun and the dark and deep orange/red in the nooks of her curls in the shadow really contrasted each other, adding to the overall look of her hair. The skin on her face was bright and the rose highlights of her cheeks lit up, her face and hair casting shadows on her shoulders, letting in only bits of light as she moved. At the very end of this scene, the sun was rising and everything was bright, Merida who shows a lot of emotion in this scene has many different lighting situations to look at. Anger in the darkness and sadness in the light of morning. The lighting here is a but more difficult, when Merida begins to cry, the attention to detail of the tear is well thought out. She was on her knees and the direction in which she is facing is towards the direction of the sun, making it glimmer and the rest of it is shown in a slightly different color of her skin, making the skin look damp. The trail behind is damp and slightly darker and shines slightly in the sun. The position of her head changes the direction the tear is going, her head in the this scene is facing downwards, so instead of going directly down her cheek, it's moving in the direction of her head, moving from her eye to her nose. Lighting changing constantly, as it moves down, the light from the sun glimmers in different areas. And with each jolt of her body, lighting changes there to, as her shoulders jolt upwards, the shadowing is on her face and hair. When she moves her head from downwards into her shoulders more, her hair moves around her shoulders and falls between her shoulders and head. Shadowing part of her face. As she raises her head, the lighting from the tears is more pronounced, since she's facing into the sun more, there is more light reflection off the damp areas of her face. The rose highlights of her cheeks are a darker shade of rose than what she began with. Her face looking hot. As she stands up, shadows move from the top of her head to the back of her head, the curls in the front are in bright light with small highlights of light in the back. Still with the nooks of the curls in a dark orange/red tone. Her face is drying and the sun's reflection on her face is changing, there is no more damp spot and her cheeks have the light rose tone to them that she had before. The detail on her dress is very pronounced by now, every stitch of woven fabric and all of the highlights from the sun are shown and all of the shadows between the strands of fabric are shown for every weave. On Merida's right arm there is a tear in the dress where she was accidentally cut on the arm with a sword. There is detail in the shadowing of the skin under the dress along with the small amount of blood that is in the wound. The skin still had its highlights towards the center as the edges are darker due to the coverage of the dress, and towards the center of the tear is the wound and skin which are highlighted according to which direction she is facing. As the sun rises higher in the sky, nearing the end of the scene, the lighting changes, making the skin on everyone's faces shine differently than before. The shadow of the rocks along the grass change length and direction, and the grass's shadow changing direction. Merida's hair is shining in different light now, her hair has highlights of light orange/yellow in the bright spots and darker orange in others. Her eyes are reflecting the sun as the sun rises higher, bringing out the light blue color.

So, that's a look into my eye for detail, I could do this for the entire movie.
This is what inspires me to do my artwork and to be a part of Pixar in the future.
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