REVIEWING PIXAR'S MONSTROUS OUTPUT.Byline: Valerie Kuklenski Staff Writer `WHEN I WAS doing short films, I thought at the end of my career my retrospective would last 20 minutes.'' John Lasseter John Alan Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. , the 45-year-old creative force behind Pixar Animation Studios Animation studio can refer to:
In 15 years' time, his Emeryville, Calif., company has put out four feature films, a slew of TV commercials and seven shorts, blazing a trail in computer animation that has been followed by DreamWorks (``Shrek''), Disney (``Dinosaur'') and others. Pixar's body of work will be reviewed over the next three weekends at Laemmle's Sunset 5, kicking off Friday with ``Toy Story'' and ``Tin Toy,'' an amusing short with a drooling drooling the discharge of saliva from the mouth. A normal feature in some breeds of dogs such as St. Bernard, Newfoundland and English bulldog, presumably because of their loose, pendulous lips. , diaper-clad baby chasing a rather worried windup toy. The series also includes ``A Bug's Life,'' ``Toy Story 2'' and the studio's latest and greatest achievement, ``Monsters, Inc.'' ``Animated films live on for a very long time,'' Lasseter said, referring to the booming market for video and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. versions. ``But we make them for the big screen, and I'm glad people get the chance to see them that way again.'' Lasseter said he woke up early Tuesday to catch the 5:30 a.m. Oscar nominations announcement. His family customarily gathers around the TV for the big moment, so John called his 21-year-old son, Joey Joey after Joseph Grimaldi, famous 19th-century clown. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 45] See : Clowns Tague, in his dorm room at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh so they could enjoy it together. As expected, ``Monsters, Inc.'' was among the three nominees for the inaugural best animated feature prize, along with ``Shrek'' and Paramount's ``Jimmy Neutron neutron, uncharged elementary particle of slightly greater mass than the proton. It was discovered by James Chadwick in 1932. The stable isotopes of all elements except hydrogen and helium contain a number of neutrons equal to or greater than the number of protons. : Boy Genius.'' To Lasseter's delight, it garnered three other nominations: original score and song (``If I Didn't Have To'') by longtime long·time adj. Having existed or persisted for a long time: a longtime friend; a longtime resident of Detroit. longtime Adjective collaborator Randy Newman, and sound editing. Pixar's staff of 650 also celebrated an entry in the best animated short category (which the studio won in 1988 for ``Tin Toy'') for its crows on a wire tale, ``For the Birds.'' Pixar is humming with multiple projects now, the next being Andrew Stanton's tropical-fish adventure ``Finding Nemo,'' due out in summer 2003. Also in production are ``The Incredibles,'' about a family of superheroes Superheroes are fictional heroes who possess abilities beyond those of normal human beings. Superheroes may also refer to:
A contract for the purchase or sale of an MBS to be delivered at an agreed-upon future date but does not include a specified pool number and number of pools or precise amount to be delivered. . Lasseter admits he's ``one of the biggest geeks around here'' and relishes working in this constantly evolving medium, but he considers himself a filmmaker first and foremost, aiming for interesting and entertaining characters and stories. ``Obviously getting these five Academy Award nominations is wonderful, but hearing the audience reaction in a theater is even better,'' he said. ``To hear kids laughing at one thing and parents laughing at another, that means more to me than anything.'' DISNEY TREASURES: Disney has been presenting a different ``classic'' film from its vaults at 10 a.m. every Saturday at the El Capitan El Cap·i·tan A peak, 2,308.5 m (7,569 ft) high, in the Sierra Nevada of central California. Its dramatic exposed monolith rises some 1,098 m (3,600 ft) above the floor of the Yosemite Valley. Theatre in Hollywood, This weekend it's ``Pollyanna.'' Other upcoming films include ``The Rescuers'' on Feb. 23 and ``The Parent Trap'' (1961) on March 2. Included in the programs are sing-alongs, contests, prizes and Disney short films. The theater is located at 6838 Hollywood Blvd. For information, call (800) 347-6396 or go online at www.cms.disney.go.com. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) John Lasseter, left, the driving force behind Pixar Animation, was happy to see four Oscar nominations for his boys Mike and Sulley, above, in ``Monsters, Inc.'' |
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