In making a movie, Pixar usually takes two to three years in history. From a script, the movie storyboard passes later. The study used 96,000 storyboards for WALL-E. (The photo above is the director Andrew Stanton, right.)
amano storyboard artists draw directly on computers, and saved as digital images. Once the storyboards have been completed, make tapes, or films of the storyboards, including provisional dialogue recorded by employees of Pixar. The filmmakers never start the animation process without preliminary dialogue recording.
Character Art Director Jason Deamer led a small group of artists who designed the look of the characters. The designs go through a series of reviews that the director evaluates them. "We bring everything to the table, then there is a selection process," he said. "I like to think of it as a great ship, and they drive."
when designing a WALL-E and EVA, the artists had a better idea of \u200b\u200bhow the rest of the robots in the movie should be. "There was a great development with the main characters, because we focus on most of them," Deamer said. "There are a lot of existing work not seen on screen, but it is a process that defines not only the characters, but also what the rest of the cast will be. "
" Robots are a huge challenge because The robots are based on the basis of the machines, "Deamer said." When you are taking advantage of them, you can only do so much more things that do not really work, or people who look to them, even if they are not own engineers who are going to notice that the set would not actually work. Therefore became important to real robots. You can only make up so much out of his head. "
In order to create an environment strewn with garbage in which WALL-E lives, the artists made visits to landfills Oakland, CA, to study the textures and colors trash to determine what would the world look that inhabits the character. "as the worlds we create are so fantastic, work very hard to get a sense of reality to this," said Adrianne Ranft of Pixar University. Although research the look and feel of the environments is essential for movies, some tasks are better than others. "It was nice to team conducting research Ratatouille on a trip to Paris, "he said.
Stanton was deeply influenced by silent movies. For WALL-E has almost no dialogue, the story had to be otherwise focused. "We got to see a film by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin day," he said. "What happened was that it confirmed our suspicions [instinct] that there is nothing you can not get if you risk to do it all visually. The characters, through dramatization and pantomime can do anything. Gave us the courage to say, 'There must be a way to find for this'. "
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
