Digital Dream Machine

Talented electronic music artist, Pogo has created his latest magical audio/video remix featuring samples from Disney•Pixar’s film “Up” and you can listen to it and watch the video right here!

Yay! My blog made it onto Boing Boing! Web users consider this a big honor! No doubt it means an increase in hits as well.
Pixar artisan Ronnie del Carmen also made the site due to an unfortunate incident involving his car.
Thanks for the post Mark!

Pixar Animation Studio’s Joe Ranft passed away in a tragic car accident last night. Truly sad news. Please see my post at Luxo.

Some of you readers might be noticing my lack of Pixar content lately. This is due to the fact that I collaborate with Ken Bautista on Luxo, a Pixar blog. I try to make sure that I’m not mirroring content here and duplicating information. We usually try and do a post a day, if not [...]

I’ve been busy editing a half-hour documentary for a client so my updates haven’t been as frequent as I like, but hopefully I’ve got some neat things for readers in the next few days. In the meantime, because I’m a sucker for great illustrations, I thought I’d share this fun painting (an homage to one [...]

The Banff Centre – Professional Development Centre.
This past Easter long weekend, I participated in the Boarding: Stories & Snow Summit at the remarkable, artist-friendly Banff Centre in Banff, Alberta. An environment, that in agreement with the website statement, “acts as a catalyst for creative thought, lifelong learning, and the development of new work.”
Not only did [...]

Congratulations to Brad Bird, Pixar, and Disney! Keeping the momentum going, The Incredibles collected two more awards last night. The Disney/Pixar film which had four Academy Award nominations, won two of the four categories it was entered in. The action-packed superhero film won the Oscars for Animated Feature Film and Sound Editing. Add these to [...]

You may have heard about the passing of Dan Lee, a character designer and animator at Pixar Animation Studios. Sadly, he was taken by cancer, something which shouldn’t claim anyone. Dan was instrumental in designing not only ‘Nemo’ and his father in Finding Nemo, but other characters in Monsters, Inc. and A Bug’s Life. He [...]

I had the chance to see The Incredibles twice today and it was…well, ‘Incredible!’ Action abounds when a domesticized family of ‘Supers’ comes out of hiding to fight the ever-present Super Villains that inhabit their Comic Book Metropolis. This film combines the 50’s era coolness of Brad Bird’s animated classic The Iron Giant along with [...]

I hope you had a great All Hallow’s Eve and filled your pails, pillow sacks, and treat bags with assorted goodies! I had a nice dinner with a grandmother and handed out treats at her place (occassionally sneaking a few for myself) as I have done in previous years. After the kids had stopped coming [...]

If you’re as amped about The Incredibles as I am, then you’re probably a loyal Pixar fanatic. The upcoming film from Director Brad Bird (The Iron Giant) will hopefully continue Pixar’s reign as the undisputed champion of animated storytelling. And if you’re also craving your fix of Pixar information, then you’ll most definitely want to [...]