Trailer of Pixar Movie 'Finding Nemo'

tjansen writes "The trailer of the next Pixar movie, Finding Nemo, is out. Only Quicktime, as usual, so you need CrossOver on Linux machines." Actually's Disney's site has Real and Windows Media formats, so you can pick your poison.

Comments

..As opposed to..?

[Lord Bitman]

The trailer that's /been out/ for a month? There's no reason to mention the release of a new movie trailer. I mean, a star wars or matrix trailer is one thing, but a movie about talking fish just because it's animated using a computer, much like many movies today are? Hey, there's a trailer out for "3, 2, 1 Penguins!" too.

Re:..As opposed to..?

[tolldog]

Having worked on it, here is some more information:

3-2-1 Penguins!

Same company as " Jonah a Veggietales movie", which is still in the theaters.

I don't know how Penguins is currenly being produced but the first three episodes were created on SGI Octanes and rendered on Linux boxes. Jonah was created on both Linux and SGI systems as well as being rendered on Linux boxes (500+ dual proc systems).

Not as big or as fancy as finding Nemo, but it also cost 1/10th to produce as Monsters Inc. $12MM vs $150MM. Although not number 1 in the box office, it has been in the top ten every week but one since released.

-Tim

Uhh...

[jaaron]

Look, I love PIXAR movies. The CG is always awesome and I usually make it a point to see pretty much any computer animated film . . .

But what's with the 'Slashvertisements' lately. I mean, it'd be one thing if we had some article here that talked about the tech that went into it or something like that, but this is just the trailer! Is there something I'm not aware of about this trailer or movie that makes it so special as to justify a Slashdot front page post? Maybe it's just a slow weekend...

Environment.

[Trusty Penfold]

Anyone know how much this advances computer animation?

The under-water environment looks extremely well done; the colours, refraction, fading etc. look very realistic.

Have these been done before, or has Pixar invented lots of new stuff again?

Re:Environment.

[robson]

The under-water environment looks extremely well done; the colours, refraction, fading etc. look very realistic.

This is what continually perplexes me about Pixar. Technically, they seem very geared around the infinitely explanding path toward photorealism. And that's cool.

Yet, one could easily argue, given the evidence (Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Bug's Life, Monsters Inc, and now Finding Nemo) that Pixar has a clear and deliberately unrealistic style. So you have this bizarre juxtaposition of the big-eyed, cartoony character in Monsters Inc who sported a state-of-the-art hyper-realistic hair (or fur) simulation.

What I'm saying is, why bother with advances toward photorealism such as hair simulation and advanced underwater effects if every one of your characters is designed to look like a stuffed animal or 3d rendering of a Disney character?

It's almost as if there's a schizophrenia within Pixar.

Re:Environment.

[hobbes17r]

I think the topic you're really getting at here makes actually perfect sense. As we hear so often, Story is always the number one emphasis of Pixar - and they have developed an amazing sense for pushing the tech behind their movies selectively, in a way that technological shortcomings never distract or detract in any way from the story.

Note how Toy Story timed in nicely with the arrival of solid Phong shading techniques in the CG world - plastic toys. This is a trend in Pixar movies, straight through Sulley's fur in Monsters Inc, hair and fur having become a significant area of advancement in the industry over the past few years.

In an obvious contrast, Square's Final Fantasy, pushed photorealism on every front at once, and the result was characters that were technologially impressive but awkward to watch as actors - distracting to what little story laid underneath as there was obviously something wrong, constantly stealing the viewer's attention... You don't see Pixar making realistic humans, because they understand that sense of interference.

As much as shaders and other CG fronts have advanced in recent years, all we have now is a steadily growing library of realistic effects, which, when used selectively, can greatly assist in conveying emotion, story and character. Pixar has made very good stylistic decisions on pushing visuals in the right places at the right times.

Would realistic fish be fun to watch anyway? Actually, will fish be fun to watch for an hour and a half? A sense of weight is usually key to sucessful acting, so this is in fact a very ambitious movie in terms of animation, to compliment the rendering advancements...

Re:Crossover?

[cscx]

Projects marked "Stage 1 -- Planning" don't count.

too late

[Anonymous Coward]

found him.

Streaming media...

[Mitreya]

Which does bring up a question - why is there no mpg file available for download as a rule?

The order of preference seems to be as follows:

1. Real player format that can not be downloaded at all

2. Quicktime file which you can usually download (but I don't like the client :)...)

3. Some other weird streaming format (windows media? can it be downloaded)

4. Nice mpg file that I can actually take to my desktop -- even with my Cable connection, my processor just does not handle video streaming very well.

Can someone tell me why this is happening? Seems counter productive - streaming is bad for network if it can be avoided. And this is not premium/paid content we are talking about! This is trailers... as in the stuff that studios should be happy to let us watch for free!

Some one please help me understand...

[DAldredge]

I am very confused. I thought that /. disliked MPAA/DISNEY/REAL NETWORKS/WMA (you know companies that support laws like the DMCA)???

If what they are trying to do is so evil, why does /. run stories about their newest products?

MPAA BAD!
MPAA BAD!!
MPAA BAD!!!
OH something shinny!!!

Re:Some one please help me understand...

[belbo]

RTFFAQ

b.

Re:Fishy

[mad_cow]

I don't see much of a deviation here. For a kid, the ocean's a pretty cool setting... lots of mysterious creatures and such floating about.

Don't be fooled, either, Pixar always manages to make their movies interesting to both children and adults. It may look like something that only a 5 year old can enjoy, but I'd be very surprised if that were truly the case.

Alternate title for the movie

[seldolivaw]

"Pixar makes an underwater filter!"

(and flogs it to death)

Upcoming Pixar Movies.

[FrankieBoy]

From what I hear the next movie in the hopper is "The Incredibles" which is a story about a super-hero family. Then it's "Ray Gunn" a futuristic film-noir in the vein of "BladeRunner". After that it's "Toy Story 3", yep they're back. Hanks and Allen have already agreed to do the sequel.

Re:Upcoming Pixar Movies.

[Schnapple]

Where and when did you hear this? A short while back I read on AICN that the next film was The Incredibles (like you said) but that the film after that was tentatively called Cars and would mark the return of John Lasseter (sp?) to the director's "chair".

The reason there's not a Toy Story 3 yet is because Pixar is contractually obligated to deliver three films to Disney by 2005 and sequels don't count towards that number. Steve Jobs pleaded with Disney to make a Toy Story exception but they wouldn't have it. If TS3 is indeed already in planning stages then either they have great confidence their new Disney deal will allow for it, or they're sure whomever they deal with next will.

The part that worries me is that rumor has it Pixar thinks Finding Nemo will be their weakest film and if there's fallout from that they may not be in the bargaining position they would be in right now if it doesn't do so well.

Exact match of target audience

[jukal]

Finding Nemo, focus on 6-12 year old kids, slashdot... focus on 6-66 year old geeks.

Re:Crossover?

[taviso]

$ mencoder -o nero.avi -oac copy -ovc copy mms://wmd31sea.activate.net/digitalmedia/bvim/find ing_nemo/finding_nemo_trailer_750.wmv

$ mplayer nero.avi

tada, no crossover required. also no lag, no skipping. what more could you want ? :)

mplayer homepage.

Upcoming Pixar Movies, from the source

[alispguru]

I don't know where you heard that stuff, but a Pixar press release says the next three films are:

Finding Nemo

The Incredibles

Cars

Nothing about "Ray Gunn", nothing about "Toy Story 3". What's your source?

Direct Movie Link

[sexecutioner]

In case anyone wants the file directly the direct URL is:

http://acw.activate.net/digitalmedia/bvim/findin g_ nemo/finding_nemo_trailer_1500.mov

Else you can pull these from the HTML source on Disney's page, not hard to do.