The magic ingredient that brings Pixar movies to life | Danielle Feinberg
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2016
- Danielle Feinberg, Pixar's director of photography, creates stories with soul and wonder using math, science and code. Go behind the scenes of Finding Nemo, Toy Story, Brave, WALL-E and more, and discover how Pixar interweaves art and science to create fantastic worlds where the things you imagine can become real. This talk comes from the PBS special "TED Talks: Science & Wonder."
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Pixar movies are just product of extremely hard labor and extreme love of art
Mike Davids Disney-Pixar idiot.
I prefer Disney and Pixar over traditional Disney films because their stories are unique and capture our mind. For instance, who doesn't love the story about the journey of one small clown fish making the journey across the see with a Blue Regal Tang? I know I do. In fact, I can hear the soundtrack right now.
And capitalism. Gotta make hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office.
I really don't like people who tell kids that their dreams are unrealistic.
Just because you can't do it doesn't mean somebody else can't.
yeah absolutely... I have always thought how arrogant it is for an adult to say to a child that they can't do what they want to do in life. the worst thing you can tell your child. They have their whole life ahead of them. they could become anything.
Now this is a TED talk.
Technology
Entertainment
Design
hi hi You're wrong.
Several of those women identify as men.
Can you give me your sources?
hi hi I can't. I made it up.
+Jake Day Williams Yeah, finally a talk work watching!
I always think that the jellyfish scene in Finding Nemo is awesome, the first time I saw it I felt like I was in an underwater paradise. Actually listening to the woman who made that scene happen, made me feel happy. I generally think science as a one dimensional boring thing which doesn't includes any imagination, but this video made me understand that sometimes, a beauty can come out from science. And talent.
+Duygu Ozkan "science as a one dimensional boring thing which doesn't includes any imagination", how did you came with that? It's exactly the opposite. Even in boring problems you need imagination to solve them.
Dreeb When you think about social science and literature, they're there. If we think high school classes: Geography, you live in it. History, you're living it. Literature, you're reading the results of your living. Philosophy is obvious. I feel like they are there, you know they are real. They are constant part of our everyday life. Donald Trump racing for presidency is history, a tsunami is geography, John Green writes book- which is literature, and any kind of thinking&discussing ideas are philosophy.
*However, math and science are different. Basically, math is a human-created universe (even though I like math). Science is in our everyday life, but in order to see the science in daily things, you kind of have to force it.
**You see a thing, and there's a science behind it, right? But the fact is, I just want to see and talk about it, comment on it... It cannot be done with science. You always have to learn and learn and memorise formulas, and maybe after a life time you get to enjoy the "fun part". That's why I think it's 'generally' boring, one dimensional.
I know I said too much, but I have a lot of feelings about this topic.
drummer265 Yes, science is so much more than formulas. However, those fundamental laws and formulas are crucial when learning science. They are the starting point. It's like French, when you begin to learn French it's actually really hard, but as the times goes by it gets beautiful and makes sense. Even though French is beautiful at the end, it's challenging in the beginning. Most people (including me) don't want to go through that process.
After all both sides have valid points, because it's really not a conflict. It's just two different ways to approach science
@@duyguozkann yeah its exactly why i prefer arts over science, i feel like i cant see math y'know?
Now THIS is a ted talk. You learn something, you enjoy the talk itself and you find the person speaking interesting.
...Why can't every talk be like this?
Because it's simply... Google "Blender"...
+Shangori You should do a TedTalk on this.
Came for this comment
+Shangori because most TED talks are deal with slimy topics that have no meaning for the real world. Just a bunch of good payed academics that talk all day long but never give the world something back.
+plavix221 agreed this was one of the emptiest ted talks, she's basicly seeling what every 3d artist does everyday as genious life changing moment, if this was a lecture about cooking egg, she'd be spending 30 minute explaining how they had the idea to crack the egg shell to get to the egg.
As a scientist and designer, QFT:
""it's this interweaving of art and science that elevates the world to a place of wonder.."
That Wall-E thing with they eyes is amazing!
I honestly didn't want this TEDtalk to end. I wanted to learned more about the details of science in art and the art in science....
That got me a bit emotional :) beautifully presented. Art comes in so many forms and really does create magic.
It truly is inspirational.
Imagine all the sweat and blood that goes into these so that we can enjoy them?
It really is
I think audience had a hard time understanding the subtle differences that her work did for these movies. So you get inspired by her passion telling the stories but not by the product per se. At the end, coming back to that little girl, you see how she gets emotional, maybe realizing that nobody can be as passionate about lighting as she can be - and to me, that is beautiful by itself. Kudos to her
This made me a bit emotional. A lot of my friends say that they like hand drawn animation more, because is has "more life in it". And while I love old movies like 101 Dalmatians or The Lion King, their view on computer animation upsets me a little. So much work was put into movies like Finding Nemo, or Brave, or any other, and they just don't really understand, how it works! They say, that characters don't look alive for them, but that's just SO NOT TRUE! Computer animated characters are as emotional as hand drawn characters, it's just a matter of taste (and in some cases - stubborness.) Animation is great no matter how it was created. This video is really nice!
I love both types of animation. Both fascinate me, and I'd love to learn more about thins kind of animation.
+Lily Hults (This is slightly off topic but) Computer graphics were used in some hand drawn Disney movies such as the Lion King, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast.
finally a decent ted talk again, bringing art, science and technology together and well explained - kind off sad that this normally decent ted talk stands out as such a positive one in light of the last months - and this talk stands out why we need in and should motivate women into science and coding
+Samantha Callahan k
+Samantha Callahan I'm sorry but what? Finding a woman good at this "stuff" is hard? First this is a very selective and small field, so there aren't going to be very many people in it to begin. Second, disregarding the fact that there are so many women good at this "stuff" and in the work world in general, the more we encourage women to enter new fields, the more women there will be that are thriving in them. Then how are women bad? Do you mean women are incapable of working? Then please explain to me why the CEO of Yahoo is a woman. There are woman doctors and engineers and artists, all whose work should be appreciated and many who excel in their area. I'm sorry but women are capable of doing anything they wish, and if they wish to be a housewife then good for them, but don't discourage other aspirations.
Catherine Ryan
dont feed the troll
I always knew that Pixar took its job seriously and that the animation was of the utmost importance to them, but I never realized how important lighting is in its films. It never hit me how lighting could be involved in animation, but how central it is to the believability of the created world.
This was so educational! Thanks!
So glad she got to be the artist her inner child longed for:)
Nettles' Cats Yup
They should have played the last clip completely through with sound, without interruption by the speaker and it would have hit 10x as hard.
Still, I felt that her illustrations and presentation were pretty engaging.
Fantastic talk! it reminds me of a quote from Adam savage - "Art and science have always been the twin engines driving us forward as a species." how right he was!
One of the best ted-talk and I watch'em all
I liked how she took her love for art and science and turned them into a career that she loves. You could feel the emotion in her when she talked about all the effort that she put into those films.
I've got to say my eyes were always glued to the TV when the jelly fish scene came up (when kids were watching it for the 20th+ time), such a beautifully illuminated environment, congrats to her.
It they put that camera to zoom in on my face while I was watching I'd be pissed.
+MickeyUSAGaming I'm sure there's a waiver or some sort of permission you sign as a condition to being in the audience.
your prob right
True, me too ...
This is exactly why I want to work at Pixar; to be one of the creators of these amazing worlds. Simply love it!
Same as me.I wish you luck!!!!
Honestly love Finding Nemo so much
I teach elementary art and this reminds me of my talks with my older kids (10-12 year olds) about how IMPORTANT shading is. I feel like lighting plays a similar role in animation.
Pixar's creations like Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Wall-E are epoch-making work of art. In this awe-inspiring talk, Pixar's Director of Photography - Danielle Feinberg gives how they create a realistic world with the mixture of science, math and art. Highly recommended.
This is really inspiring, not like those other TED Talks where people come on stage just to show how much they have accomplished and how great they are.
I loved that jelly fish scene when I watched Finding Nemo for the first time. Amazing work!
This woman, I like her. She does an amazing job, and even in films where the story wasn't all that great (good dinosaur f.ex.), the imagery was just stunning (and the reason i watched it until the end).
She is the reason why I have every pixar film in my shelf and continue to watch them on a regular basis.
Great woman, great talk. We need more talks like these.
I cried a bit during this. it was so beautiful
right she is great.
+Kristina G Damnit if I didn't as well. Sitting at work is the wrong place to spontaneously start crying.
I was told "Art is a HOBBY, NOT A CAREER.". I guess the internet kind of squashed that notion ;-)
a guy draws you 2 minute cat nowadays for 9.99.......you can do anything(';
+the fiddler HAHA.....YES you can! Even better than the mass realization of new ways to make a living outside of conventional 9 to 5's, is the mass realization of WHY IT IS IMPERATIVE to do something you LOVE, and not just exist to pay the bills. Soooo much is opening up rt now. Maybe by the time I pass on, ART will be known as a legitamate, well paying and rewarding CAREER....who knows....maybe sooner. ;-)
This is the dream I am working hard at to make come true for myself. Not going to lie it got me super excited and even a little emotional.
she is not only a good artist but also a good speaker.
Absolutely insane how much detail goes into this art. Cannot believe how complex and complicated this is
This is amazing... I'm not a big fan of animation movies, but every time I watch one, I just feel the TREMENDOUS amount of work, effort and passion put in creating it! It's just amazing!
5:25 that girl's face had me like 😂
She looks pretty
finally something good coming out of Ted talks and "trending"
People seem to say this a lot on a number of recent videos... like the camel one lol. Also the prosecutor one.
MGSHarley - Ohhhh trending.. Yea I was more just talking about recent videos on the channel that have been not so bad.
+Siberius Wolf I don't really watch these unless it interests me like this
+Siberius Wolf last Ted talk I saw was about pollution effecting the ocean. made me sad
MGSHarley - That DOES sound sad!
Yea I don't watch them either.. I only subscribed recently because I'm waiting for the video Ana Kasparian did to be uploaded, if you know herrrrr... it's about money in politics so it should be interesting.
I've been into animation for a long time, I use a program called maya but it's incredibly complex and hard to use without a tutor. But I still learn more about it everyday after school, it fascinates me what I can do with it and I'm sure the same goes for her.
How long have you been doing animations? I'd love to get into it eventually, but I can be pretty harsh on myself so I'd like to know how long it takes to begin to get the hang of it.
+edgy_unicorn_dont_care it takes alot of effort but if you love it, its incredibly fun i started with a program called blender but that didnt have a too user friendly user interface. Ive been interested in it for 3 years and started playing around for with it for about 2 years, but you really need to enjoy it otherwise you wont have a chance
+Bakeddiamond Thankyou for the helpful info 😊
She did an amazing job presenting her work... Loved it
This is beautiful. Very interesting to hear and see the thought process for developing computer animations.
OMG the last sentence gave me chills
I love this. Animation is such a beautiful and fascinating art form.
Aww man, this hits hard cause I'm 18 and still haven't found my calling.
Most people in their 30s haven't found their calling. You're still a baby.
+Robert McDonald You ain't alone bro. 19 here, first year of college and i don't know wtf I'm doing to be honest. What even is a degree? Lol
+David S. Thanks for the cheers up :)
+LV It's tough bro but keep it up and keep looking for your calling :)
+Robert McDonald Hey man - what do you enjoy doing in your free time? What drives you - what gives you energy - what's your passion? What would you do if you could do anything, resources not being an issue? Pursue that - do NOT pursue making money... You will not be satisfied...
0/10 not enough clapping.
But seriously though, this was a fantastic talk. I love how she used for examples a bunch of movies that many people are very familiar with and love. It's great.
I'm speechless. Her eloquence in conveying ideas that can touch the audiences' soul is just magical!
That ending line nailed it!
"thank you" well that was the last line
wow one of the best talks ever
someone should show this to cinemasins
Ding! Scene does not contain a lapdance
+Eduardo Torres cinnimasin reference! I'll take a sin off for that.
Wall-e was a really cool film ;)
All I knew about an Animated movie was to "just love watching them on screen". But your talk lasted me a food for thought & realize,what it takes to expand one's imagination and bring it to life.
i fuckin love her
+MiRaje8086 you emos love getting bored, don't ya...
Lesbians are awesome.
That was beautiful
This is what I want to do with my life. I've been watching Disney, Pixar, Dreamwork, Laika and other animation studios creation and I can never get over how much passion and efforts they put into both storytelling and animation. Animation has a special place in my heart. They create every details of their worlds and their characters through pencil strokes (in 2D), through computer (in 3D) or through simple material (in stop motion). The artists have the freedom and creativity in every aspect. And that's what I want. I'm personally most interested in hand drawn animation. I want to tell a good story through beautiful frames of drawings. Right now I'm just a student and haven't clearly decided my future job, but I hope one day I can create something this great.
The part about Wall-E's eyes is great!
Great TED talk! I love her passion for her work. These films come together with a beautiful dance of science, art, imagination and hard work!
What a *_charming_* and *_talented_* woman. Women have an empathetic streak that allows them to fuse science and creativity together that men just don't have. You go girl!
Kind Regards,
Wyatt Nite
is that seriously a picture of your face?
+Bernie Sandwich no it's not
i've seen that image somewhere before
Enough with typecasting! Both men and women can be empathetic and or analytical. Lets please move beyond this mindset.
ArtistProtagonist Yes let's continue to crush women under the patriarchy, you'd love that.
Kind Regards,
Wyatt Nite
+Wyatt Nite how does that equate to patriarchy? You said women are "empathetic in a way men just cannot be" (paraphrased) you probably meant well and intend to laud her skill and effort. Which is commendable. But can't it be expressed in a way that doesnt again draw boxes around the genders we've been trying to erase? What does your comment suggest to an empathetic man or an unempathetic woman? Lets be honest, this woman is a terrific person, because of her effort and contribution not because of her gender. There are lots of people with varied combinations of skills and strengths among both genders.
This was inspiring and beautiful - it's lovely to see how you can interweave love of separate things.
This is so authentic and wonderful. Thanks Danielle. Thanks many times
Coming back to the original idea of Ted talk. An expert sharing their knowledge. How invigorating.
Been a while since I've heard a good Ted Talk, this was excellent, keep 'em coming.
This is what made me fall in love with Pixar years ago!
Once I was 7 years old in the beginning 😂😂
what im convinced is that She is proud of what she is doing with enthusiastic
0:23 I relate to that. When I was that age, people told me the same thing
WOW! I could listen to this every day!
Very insightful. I learned a lot.It's amazing how one small detail can make or break something like a movie. Thank you for this presentation, it inspired me to focus more on the details in my work. It's simply beautiful!
That ending was brilliant!
spectacular explanation about lighting mam ur real inspiration for me one i will be there and proudly say i am an artist of soul
This is not only inspiring but very interesting! I feel like I've learn a lot of new things, and that's great.
I SO LOVE EVERYTHING that Pixar puts out.Thank you Pixar for some great movies
When I was seven years old, some well-meaning adult asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Proudly, I said: "An artist." "No, you don't," he said, "You can't make a living being an artist!"
00:24
My little seven-year-old Picasso dreams were crushed. But I gathered myself, went off in search of a new dream, eventually settling on being a scientist, perhaps something like the next Albert Einstein.
00:37
(Laughter)
00:39
I have always loved math and science, later, coding. And so I decided to study computer programming in college. In my junior year, my computer graphics professor showed us these wonderful short films. It was the first computer animation any of us had ever seen. I watched these films in wonder, transfixed, fireworks going off in my head, thinking, "That is what I want to do with my life." The idea that all the math, science and code I had been learning could come together to create these worlds and characters and stories I connected with, was pure magic for me.
01:15
Just two years later, I started working at the place that made those films, Pixar Animation Studios. It was here I learned how we actually execute those films. To create our movies, we create a three-dimensional world inside the computer. We start with a point that makes a line that makes a face that creates characters,or trees and rocks that eventually become a forest. And because it's a three-dimensional world, we can move a camera around inside that world. I was fascinated by all of it. But then I got my first taste of lighting.
01:48
Lighting in practice is placing lights inside this three-dimensional world. I actually have icons of lights I move around in there. Here you can see I've added a light, I'm turning on the rough version of lighting in our software, turn on shadows and placing the light. As I place a light,I think about what it might look like in real life,but balance that out with what we need artistically and for the story. So it might look like this at first, but as we adjust this and move thatin weeks of work, in rough form it might look like this, and in final form, like this.
02:28
There's this moment in lighting that made me fall utterly in love with it. It's where we go from this to this. It's the moment where all the pieces come together, and suddenly the world comes to life as if it's an actual place that exists. This moment never gets old, especially for that little seven-year-old girl that wanted to be an artist.
02:49
As I learned to light, I learned about using light to help tell story, to set the time of day, to create the mood, to guide the audience's eye, how to make a character look appealing or stand out in a busy set.
03:08
Did you see WALL-E?
03:09
(Laughter)
03:10
There he is.
03:13
As you can see, we can create any world that we want inside the computer. We can make a world with monsters, with robots that fall in love, we can even make pigs fly.
03:25
(Laughter)
03:30
While this is an incredible thing, this untethered artistic freedom, it can create chaos. It can create unbelievable worlds, unbelievable movement, things that are jarring to the audience.
03:43
So to combat this, we tether ourselves with science. We use science and the world we knowas a backbone, to ground ourselves in something relatable and recognizable. "Finding Nemo" is an excellent example of this. A major portion of the movie takes place underwater. But how do you make it look underwater?
04:01
In early research and development, we took a clip of underwater footage and recreated it in the computer. Then we broke it back down to see which elements make up that underwater look.One of the most critical elements was how the light travels through the water. So we coded up a light that mimics this physics -- first, the visibility of the water, and then what happens with the color. Objects close to the eye have their full, rich colors. As light travels deeper into the water, we lose the red wavelengths, then the green wavelengths, leaving us with blue at the far depths.
04:34
In this clip you can see two other important elements. The first is the surge and swell, or the invisible underwater current that pushes the bits of particulate around in the water. The second is the caustics. These are the ribbons of light, like you might see on the bottom of a pool, that are created when the sun bends through the crestsof the ripples and waves on the ocean's surface.Here we have the fog beams. These give us color depth cues, but also tells which direction is up in shots where we don't see the water surface. The other really cool thing you can see here is that we lit that particulate only with the caustics, so that as it goes in and out of those ribbons of light, it appears and disappears,lending a subtle, magical sparkle to the underwater.
05:18
You can see how we're using the science -- the physics of water, light and movement -- to tether that artistic freedom. But we are not beholden to it. We considered each of these elements and which ones had to be scientifically accurate and which ones we could push and pull to suit the story and the mood.
05:37
We realized early on that color was one we had some leeway with. So here's a traditionally colored underwater scene. But here, we can take Sydney Harbor and push it fairly green to suit the sad mood of what's happening. In this scene, it's really important we see deep into the underwater, so we understand what the East Australian Current is, that the turtles are diving into and going on this roller coaster ride. So we pushed the visibility of the water well past anything you would ever see in real life. Because in the end, we are not trying to recreate the scientifically correct real world, we're trying to create a believable world, one the audience can immerse themselves in to experience the story.
06:17
We use science to create something wonderful.We use story and artistic touch to get us to a place of wonder. This guy, WALL-E, is a great example of that. He finds beauty in the simplest things. But when he came in to lighting, we knew we had a big problem. We got so geeked-out on making WALL-E this convincing robot, that we made his binoculars practically optically perfect.
06:40
(Laughter)
06:43
His binoculars are one of the most critical acting devices he has. He doesn't have a face or even traditional dialogue, for that matter. So the animators were heavily dependent on the binoculars to sell his acting and emotions.
06:56
We started lighting and we realized the triple lenses inside his binoculars were a mess of reflections. He was starting to look glassy-eyed.
07:04
(Laughter)
07:06
Now, glassy-eyed is a fundamentally awful thingwhen you are trying to convince an audience that a robot has a personality and he's capable of falling in love. So we went to work on these optically perfect binoculars, trying to find a solution that would maintain his true robot materials but solve this reflection problem.
Favorite ted talk so far
Not only just animators but directors of photography or lighteners and other different departments are also great artists ❤
This is so beautiful. Amazing👏
I like it when a Pixar movie is really about something... not just 2 hours of laughs and meaningless tickles. If you want 2 hours of meaningless entertainment, you can watch anything... all those things you've seen that you don't remember a week later.
I really enjoyed this Ted Talk.
Love the material. Thank you for sharing. :)
Great to see, this amazing scenery come together! I love animation and i spend years myself designing these worlds. But in the end it is so hard to do this that I moved away and focused on taking pictures of the real world. ( like my profile picture )
5:24
the poster child for inspiring TED talks
She could do very well as an actor. Those lines, pauses and emotions were practiced. And it was engaging.
Thank you! Beautiful talk
LOVE this talk
Danielle you and others like you are todays true artists.You can hear the passion in your voice.
I'm here because I love Pixar films.
why does this wonderful video only have 497k views?
This Is amazing!!!! Love your passion!!
Wow excellent video! Love this so much. 🌱🐙🐢
Best TED talk ever!
Outstanding TEDtalk!
That's so beautiful!
superb talk.
Literally the perfect TED talk. You've got the T, the E, the D, and most importantly, the magic.
the jellyfish scene is so incredible
i can't wait for finding dory!
I'm a computer animator too! I understand her passion PERFECTLY!!!
You worked in animation ? I Might want to work in animation too. I want to know how it's work and download some logiciel in my computer to see but I have no Idea where to begin... I Tried to download the renterman non-commercial from Pixar but it doesn't work because I have'nt MAYA... How it was to work in animation ? Thanks ;)
I'm looking to work in computer animation also, currently working with Maya and started Full sail University online. Are you currently working as an animator, FrakU2?
gabs UzZ- do some searching on youtube for tutorials and given the right circumstances, you can download a free student version of Maya from the autodesk website.
ok thanks ;)
stever73 Actually no. I am not working in the industry. I went to a for profit school and it was essentially no help at all. I am using RUclips to relearn everything and it is working spectacularly well. I only wish I figured this out BEFORE enrolling in that money making scam of a school. BE CAREFUL!!!
Me too, did a year at uni. Horrible horrible horrible. Self taught is the way forward
it was really amazing, cool educational
omg, I met her in 2015 at Stanford's Tech Trek camp!
love it inspired to become even more interested in the industry
The epitome of real TED.
She made me cry 😥
the magic ingredient? good writing
ohhhhhhhhhYEAAAAHHHHHHHHH you done did say it
+Zankaru Zelladonii Was looking for this. The lighting helped bring the movies to life, for sure, but without good writing, the lighting hasn't a hope of shining through.
The honesty in her words speaks 10 times louder than a long speech ..
MAnu Prathap Vanamali true..but this is false hope
Good talk, takes me back
I'm not sure why, but I think this Ted talk may be my favorite.