Thanks to a varied and large group of characters and situations, RATATOUILLE (Ra.ta.tui) became an endless source of inspiration and helped the filmmakers dared to technological feats. As said Michael Fong, director Technical supervision: "This movie had a host of technical challenges, beginning with the crowd of furry characters, a very complex human characters, intense scenes in the streams and the recreation of the wonderful city of Paris. We introduced many changes as sombreábamos. The trouble began when having to encourage species that had not ever worked with. The Pixar animators have created a zoo of the most varied, ranging from toys to insects, to fish and monsters, but never had worked with rats, an unknown species y. .. almost prohibited. The rats usually do bad roles in cartoons, and the world animation has not spent much of this species of rodents. But RATATOUILLE (Ra.ta.tui), the filmmakers decided that they must address these furry creatures from a new perspective, enhancing their talents and qualities and analyzing all the ways to interact with the world. This ranged from the kind of backlash that give the tail a nervous movements made with the whiskers, not forgetting the amazing ways that can be taken as needed to convey sympathy and expressiveness. And since the best way to meet the rats is to spend time with them, Pixar offices were filled with curious animals locked in their cages.
Although took some getting used to, many ended up making love to these sociable creatures, which were to inspire his designs. Brian Green, supervisor of characters in the film says: "We spent considerable time observing and trying to find the rats and then incorporate their behaviors in the models. That allowed the animators to create convincing characters. When you live with rats, you see all his gestures. They are very social animals. They liked to play with us and the caress. "
Dylan Brown, supervising animator continues: "We like to respect the true personality of the animals that become characters in our films. With RATATOUILLE (Ra.ta.tui), the challenge was to find ways that these little beings and their world were attractive to the public, as we did with the fish, which were so poignant in 'Finding Nemo (Finding Nemo) '. "
Observe the life of your new pets provided an excellent opportunity to Green and his team. They took a lot of fun ideas and discovered a world completely unknown. "One of the most amazing things we found was the flexibility shown by the rats. A rat can do all sorts of things with your body: they get in holes impossible because his rib cage is very small and flexible. That helped us that the story was much more fun. But at first we had to create special software that simulate those qualities to make it as realistic as possible, "says Green.
Michael Fong, supervising technical director continues:" Getting a rat is flexible raised a lot of difficulties. It was a long and laborious process in which animators and articulating-the people who build the skeletons inside of the characters tested that lasted months. The aim was to recreate the more strange positions they can take these animals, making the skin, hair and bones to move in such a way that seems believable and expressive. "
Once the filmmakers understand how they moved the rats in the real world, began the speculations, for example, how a rat would manage to grab a spoon or a pan?
"We needed the characters of the rats could move like humans and even chefs cook like humans. This raised a host of problems, especially in regard to the scale, "says Green." Everyone sees the difference in scale, even in something as simple as the beat heart. When Remy runs shows how a heart beats fast. On the contrary, Skinner breathes a totally different way. Play all these differences is one of the exploits of the film giving us credible encounter of two worlds. "
shading was also one of the keys. "Each rat has its own palette of colors that look interesting and attractive," said Van Valkenburg, director of artistic shading. He adds: "We used pointillism to mix the different colors of each character. So if you look closely in Remy's hair, you see it's purple, yellow and green. But it's nothing that, it's just a nice shade of blue. " Van Valkenburg was also inspired by the peaches. "I wanted to have a touch of peach on the nose and ears, and also in the queue."
But the hardest part was creating the character of Remy, which is halfway between the human and the animal world and that leads to funny situations. Bird decided that the rest of the rats walked on all fours. On the contrary, Remy learns to be himself standing on two legs, in order to avoid a faux pas and stained with dirty paws all the food! "One of the most interesting things about the film is the evolution Remy, "says Green." Begins "very rat" but as it enters the world of humans, is taking its characteristics. It was an incredible job, but provides a lot of magic to the film. For Brad, the core history was that of an outsider trying to fit in a human world. "
There is another aspect of rats raised many problems for the animators: the hair, a material that has its own dynamics and is not particularly easy to imitate when it comes to the movements of an animal. Pixar has innovated a lot in the field of hair in "Monsters, Inc. (Monsters Inc.)" and "The Incredibles (The Incredibles)" but RATATOUILLE (Ra.ta.tui), hair flying literally. "This time, we had a lot of furry characters, and all that hair needs to move to the rhythm of all that is happening," says Green. "So we got to work to get the hair to move. It was very difficult but also helped us to invent a lot of new tricks. "
truth rats tend to have half a million hairs. But that's too hairy even for modern computers. So the filmmakers focused on about 30,000 hairs per rat, which is a considerable figure. "We chose to simulate key hairs and leave the rest because of otherwise have been impossible to store so much data, "explains Christine Waggoner, supervisor of simulation." Anyway, we still have huge files of hair! "
rats RATATOUILLE (Ra . ta.tui) are very realistic, almost human, but also have a lot of fairy tale, something that is evident in the scenes where Remy controls Linguini as his puppet. For the filmmakers, the success of film is that the public is engaged with a story so fantastic and fun. "The animators worked hard to make the lock more Linguini small hair sparked a movement with his hand, "said Brad Lewis. "It's really fun. This movie has a lot of physical humor of the old school of Buster Keaton, in which the audience roaring with laughter was heard without a single word on the screen. "
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