June 4th, 2010
Play by Play
Play by Play is a simple live-action shortfilm financed by Afterworks which is part of Pixar University department, with the goal of providing education to those of us that work in Animated Feature Films during the day and are interested in learning more about live-action. It’s a really great opportunity and can’t thank them enough. While it’s a completely different beast than animation…in a lot of ways, I’ve been loving the project as well as the goal/purpose of it which is to learn.
The story is a simple story from my co-worker Bob Roden about the struggle of a boy who is bullied. Bob wrote a script that I thought had a beautiful message, and it made me want to work on it. I had the tremendous luck to be directing it, with a great hardworking crew especially considering we have been doing this on our free time. Hasn’t been easy that way. We are in our last stretch in the last few months of completing it. Whether the short turns out good or not, it’s been already worth it in many ways…and has truly only made me more excited about working on more and learn more about this craft.
So over the next few months now that ToyStory 3 is completed and I start to work on a future Pixar film (not sure if it’s been announced so just in case I prefer not to mention) I’ll write about what I’ve been finding out and learning from working on this, using the equipment we used, the people that has been helping us and notes I’ve been writting here and there about things to keep in mind in the future. So since we are all essentially doing/telling stories I figured I’d share in case it helps to those of you whether you are doing live-action or animation.
Carlos.
6 Responses to “Play by Play”
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Carlos, te comento que las próximas películas de pixar, de las que se tiene conocimiento actualmente son estas:
Cars 2
Brave
Monsters, Inc. 2
Newt
Hasta ahí se.
saludosss.
Ivan,
No es una pelicula animada. Es un cortometraje de image real independiente, financiado por el departamento de educacion de Pixar.
No es un cortometraje que ponen delante de las peliculas de Pixar. Se trata de un proyecto para que la gente involucrada en el, aprendan mas sobre el proceso de imagen real.
Espero que eso te aclare la duda.
Carlos.
Carlos,
I think this is a great experience for you and for the readers of your blog.
Felicidades con la victoria de España!!!
Seymour
Seems like you know what you are talking about. I’m a high school teacher and I can really use this for my current course. Thanks!
Carlos,
I justed saw Play by Play on a flight from NYC to LAX (actually I saw it twice as its on a loop on the direct tv service on Virgin America). It was AWESOME!! Very moving story and really well shot, directed, etc. Of all of the great mesages in your movie, one of my favorites (esp as I’m a new dad) is to encourage your kids to dream big. While I don’t want to spoil the movie for others, someone once told me your dreams are not big enough until people start laughing at them. Best of luck as you move into Live-Action. My family and I will definitely be watching.
I too saw this short on a virgin america flight and was deeply moved. It was beautiful. My son (5th grade) caught the tail end of the video, and our plane landed before it came around on the loop again. He was so disappointed to have missed the beginning, but nonetheless, he cant stop talking about. He even mentioned it to some people we just met yesterday (we saw it in nov. 2011). I have searched and searched for it online so that I can share this short with him in its entirety. We only could find the trailer and making of. Is there anywhere we can view it, or purchase it. I would even like to share it with his school if possible. Thank you for creating it.