026: News: November 17, 2010


Cars 2 releases a new trailer, a new poster, and new photos!  Also, Disney pushes Toy Story 3 for Best Picture consideration, and a boyfriend seeks out the help of a professional designer to create a specialty engagement ring box based on Toy Story 3 characters!

(Note: Cars 2 is discussed from 3:30 until 15:54 in the episode.  Not much by way of spoilers is said, but if you want to remain totally free from knowledge about Cars 2 before it comes out, then avoid this part of today’s episode.)

Links:

Interview with Rich Ross about TS3 and the Oscar race: http://www.deadline.com/2010/11/oscar-disneys-rich-ross-says-were-going-for-the-best-picture-win-for-toy-story-3/

Interview with Ed Catmull by the Association for Computing Machinery: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1883592

Interview with animators Aaron Hartline, Victor Navone, and Matt Strangio: http://www.animationmentor.com/newsletter/1110/feature.html?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonuaXBZKXonjHpfsXx7eglULHr08Yy0EZ5VunJEUWy2YEFWoEnZ9mMBAQZC81gzgVVG%2FScc45N%2F%2FtJBFM%3D

The Pixar Blog’s cast info for each of the new cast members (including their imdbs): http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/cars-2-casting-news_17.html

RenderMan now less expensive: https://renderman.pixar.com/products/news/2010-price.html

Follow Lee Unkrich’s 12-year-old son on Twitter (he recommends it): http://twitter.com/WisdomOfMax

Info about the Frazer Museum: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20101109/NEWS01/311090030/Frazier+Museum+plans+two+exhibits+for+holidays

A new blog by William, a listener, about animation: http://a113animation.blogspot.com

Thanks to João Correiro for providing the intro to today’s episode!  And thanks to Craig Good for supplying the final word.

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