The animators at Pixar are stepping up their game when it comes to new movies and tv shows. They have new technology and software that makes their job a lot easier. From built in lighting sources to quick stencils, the new animators have it all.
The first new tool that they have is the ability to add light in even after the scene is already drawn. They used this software in the new movie Inside Out where one of the main characters, Joy, has to have a consistent glow to her that effectively lights up the room. The animators describe her as a lamp that will actually light up other things near her. Lighting is a big part in animation because it can define a good story from a bad one because it makes it look pretty real. Also, they had to use a lot of lighting in the movie Up because the look of the balloons had to reflect off the sun and look realistic. This portrayal can be made very easily with their new tool that lets you add light after because it saved a lot of time for the animators. Up is also a great example for their other new tool that allows you to stencil in other details and copy them in other frames. Although this was already a prevalent resource, it was recently made better as some people wanted to perfect the process. Now they can copy images from past frames and make them show up in other places a lot easier by using this tool. For example, as I said, the movie Up uses the tool by copying the balloons from frame to frame so that the producers are not consistently drawing them over again. I think that these new tools are very important because the animators already have a very tough job to create all these drawings. Also it takes a while for an entire movie to be animated and the producers could use any new gadgets that they could find to speed up the process. It is a good idea to provide the new things because it will maybe motivate some people to take on this job and will also help the producers pump out more animated movies in the meantime. http://fortune.com/2015/09/14/pixar-brings-movies-life/
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