Friday, April 29, 2011

Pixar

During the holiday, Vivian and I paid a visit to the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and saw the exhibition Pixar: 25 Years of Animation.

Of course we brought our two daughters with us. Euterpe was obviously overjoyed to see all her favorite characters, and I was slightly surprised she remembered the bits and pieces of many stories. (For example, there was a statue of Al McWiggin - the malicious collector in Toy Story 2. Neither Euterpe nor me watch that film, but she probably read it from story book.)

To me, the most impressive item was the gigantic picture next to the entrance, which showed over 100 species of fish that appeared in Finding Nemo as supporting characters. Most of them appeared in the movie for just a second or two, often in a distant. In fact, the file name of each individual fish was shown, each began with misc***, indicating that they were merely miscellaneous species. Nonetheless, each has its own details - attractive colors and impressive mimic of real texture. I was inclined to believe each had its own story behind that had not been explored.

Success is the attention to details.

PS. Thanks to the remarkable appearance in Toy Story 3, the most character of the entire exhibition was the three-eyed alien.

And, as you remember, the three lovely green creatures only started with making a nondescript appearance in the original Toy Story.

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