Steve Jobs Talks Pixar in 'Never-Before-Seen' Interview as 'Toy Story' Turns 30

[4k78]

On the flip side, the graphics for Toy Story 4 looked phenomenal, but the story didn't hold my interest.

Not only that, but Toy Story 4 isn’t canon. 😉

 

[kalsta]

… Jobs effortlessly jumps from talking about the business/money side to the artistic side.

How humans use tech and how they create artistic value was always at the heart of his soul.

Agreed. I get a bit tired of all the ‘Steve Jobs would never have done this’ comments, forgetting that Apple made plenty of mistakes under his leadership too—but I do agree that he never would have sacrificed his love of the arts. I imagine the ‘Crush!’ ad would have upset him just as much as it did many of us.

 

[SFjohn]

I found it fascinating when Jobs talked about the culture at Pixar saying that everyone there is working towards the same goal: Creating Shareholder Value. Sounds like Tim Cook to me. It’s no wonder why Jobs picked him as his successor & the incredible job Cook has done in creating shareholder value. 👍🏻

 

[Anson_431]

3D animation is cool but it really sucks that it’s basically replaced 2D animation entirely, especially in movies. Nothing is worse than seeing a great technology dumped for another technology that isn’t better, just different

There really should be no reason we can’t have plenty of both

It’s interesting to see that the western film industry is adopting this relatively binary approach to animation creation actually.

In comparison, anime from Japan for example, has been trying to integrate both into their story telling, with fight scenes or action sequences presented in 3D whilst maintaining their dialogue driven storytelling in 2D. Whilst it was rather awkward at the beginning, the 2D to 3D transition had grown significantly smoother over the past 10 years in general and without significant/visible frame drops.

I can’t help but wonder if the style / production process in the west have something to do with this 3D replacement though?

Just my two cents.

 

[dogrivergrad68]

I got to visit Pixar in 1988 or 1989 to talk to some of their engineers how we were using their image processing library for the hardware they were selling at the time. The lead SW dev met us outside their building after coming back from getting more coffee. He said he had been up all night working on something and needed some caffeine (my coworker and I thought he was a homeless guy at first 😆). All the offices in their area had beaded curtains instead of doors and the entry way had a big prints from Luxo Jr on the walls. Cool place.