Ratatouille

Post by **ShyViolet** » January 30th, 2007, 9:03 pm

Kinda interesting:

http://pixaranimation.blogspot.com/2004 ... ld-to.html

If this happened, I wonder what would have become of Pixar??

Post by **Ben** » January 31st, 2007, 9:00 am

I wonder! Toy Story would have still come out. It would have still been a hit. Disney would have worked with the new owners and secured a multi-picture deal.

Whether we would have had those subsequent films or not, we would have gotten a Toy Story 2 and maybe a 3 by now.

Pixar wouldn't have gone anywhere, and might even have been bought by Disney much earlier.

Post by **ShyViolet** » January 31st, 2007, 10:05 pm

Meantime, Steve was just standing by. Carefully watching as the price for Lucasfilm's CG unit got lower and lower. Until Jobs was finally able to swoop in and snag the entire computer animation production group for $10 million.

But why exactly did Jobs buy Lucasfilm's CG unit? Not because he wanted to make cartoons. But -- rather -- because Steve wanted to sell software & machines to other people who wanted to make computer animation.

This was in Jim Hill's essay "Is Steve Jobs really the right man for the Job?" which is quite interesting and definetely sheds some light on how someone like Jobs got attached to a company like Pixar.

I read in several Jobs books (don't know how true it is) that when he tried to sell color nEXT computers to Disney (in 1991) in a meeting and then bragged about how they'll allow anyone to make their own animation:

Katzenberg went ballistic and basically threatened Jobs NEVER to even try this: "I own animation, and no one is going to get it! If someone tries taking this away, I'm standing there with a shotgun and I'll blow his b***s off!" (Words to that affect anyway.)

I don't know how true this is, both Jobs books are pretty bad quality, it could just be exaggerated.

Post by **ShyViolet** » February 8th, 2007, 6:32 pm

Thanks to Animation Nation, here's a preview of some rough Ratatouille footage!

http://www.animationnation.com/ubb/ulti ... 1;t=012074

Post by **Meg** » February 8th, 2007, 8:49 pm

I think that was on the front page last week...

It's cool though!

February 11th, 2007, 9:07 pm

In the very back of this picture you can see what seems to be gost Rousseau:
http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/ ... _192609802

Here's a new picture of some of the toys:

http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... LargeImage

Post by **Daniel** » February 11th, 2007, 11:24 pm

How cute. I know Mitch would love them!

Speaking of which, where is Mitch?

Post by **Meg** » February 12th, 2007, 4:32 pm

Off-topic, but I love your av, Dan.

Post by **Daniel** » February 12th, 2007, 7:32 pm

Thanks, Meg!

Post by **ShyViolet** » February 12th, 2007, 11:41 pm

I love your avatar too Dan! Bambi, so cute!

Speaking of which, where is Mitch? Sad

I hope she's all right.

Post by **Daniel** » February 13th, 2007, 12:23 am

Thanks, Vi.

Oh, I wouldn't worry to much. She's still updating her Ratatouille blog, so she's around, just not posting.

What lazyness!

February 13th, 2007, 10:48 am

Check out all these Ratatouille toys! :

http://upcomingpixar.blogspot.com/2007/ ... tures.html

Post by **ShyViolet** » February 13th, 2007, 10:04 pm

Oh, I wouldn't worry to much. She's still updating her Ratatouille blog, so she's around, just not posting.

Oh, that's good.

Also, where's Ben? He hasn't been around much either.

Post by **ShyViolet** » February 13th, 2007, 10:05 pm

BTW those toys are adorable!

I especially like the two chefs!

Post by **Josh** » February 13th, 2007, 10:08 pm

ShyViolet wrote:Also, where's Ben? He hasn't been around much either.

Ben's doing well. He's just recently been involved with a video project.

I'm sure Ben will appreciate your asking about him, Vi.