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- Pixar broke new ground when it created "Toy Story" in 1995, but from there it still had a long way to go to perfect 3D animated characters. Over the years, Pixar's animators would figure out everything from proper human movement to skin to hair. They figured out how to smooth out skin in "Geri's Game." Then, when "The Incredibles" rolled around, they created new simulations to help control Mr. Incredible's muscle movements and Violet's long hair while also finding more accurate ways to light human skin. Violet's hair would later pave the way for long-haired characters like Colette in "Ratatouille" and the curly-haired heroine Merida of "Brave." Meanwhile, Pixar's shading tools would allow the animators to add even more striking details to their human characters' faces, while innovative new methods of animating crowd scenes came about in "Incredibles 2" and "Toy Story 4."
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How Pixar Animates Human Characters | Movies Insider - Zábava
11:40
That shot of Violet blow-drying her hair is literally just Pixar showing off how much their animation has evolved.
Ikr?! seeing that made me nut
What
_CallMeKitty_ Merida’s hair shows it much more
@@cupcakemcsparklebutt9051 huh 😂
@@cupcakemcsparklebutt9051 the fbi is knocking on your door.
The animation quality and the way humans look in 3D has improved drastically to the point where young andy became almost unrecognisable
@@espresso.dreammm what do you mean by that
Yeah. I didn't know that the kid in Toy Story 4 is Andy. I thought it's just another kid.
@@poweroffriendship2.0 we're just happy that pixar animation is getting better
@@saudbintalib2567 Pixar has been better and improved for years until now. With the exception of Cars 2 and The Good Dinosaur, all of their films, from old to new, are magnum opus.
@@poweroffriendship2.0 don't forget about the movie brave with cars 2 and the good dinosaur we pixar fans call these movies "the trilogy of the worst pixar movies" but as for their other movies most of them are masterpieces
Lets be honest when we were children we didn’t even care how good the skin texture and animation was.
Yeah so make sure to show little kids old movies otherwise they’ll consider em “too old to enjoy”
@@quota3734 - ...pretty sure that’s not how it works
True
Yes as long it is fun.
True, we just enjoyed the movie
No joke. Childhood me had a hard time figuring out whether The Polar Express was a real nightmare or just weirdly animated.
both
@@TosinMemes wdymm no, that movie was great
Well the polar express models are horrifying, I always had to leave the room when someone watched it
@@TosinMemes uh...no
666 likes, you tell me
The decision in Toy Story to only show parts of the humans, usually the lower parts, also improves the story too. Because it brings the audience down to the level and perspective of the toys, making them feel more human and intimate.
thats what I thought
Its kinda amazing how intelligent these animators are to creatively turn a limitation in technology into a fortunate coincidence
@@Eralen00 It's a similar principle to how Steven Spielberg made Jaws. The mechanical shark kept malfunctioning, so instead they filmed much of the movie using other cues to imply the presence of the shark.
@@Ngamotu83 the same reason the first pacific rim worked but the second didn't.
I thought this was one of those comments that try to protect Pixar from looking lazy but that's actually a good point. Very informative good sir!
When an octopus is harder to animate than Violet's hair
Are u just a guy without mustache? I see u every where
When the funny
Ok
STAR PLATINUM
?
To be exact, they only managed to animate 7 legs instead of 8 without depleting the funds.
Whenever they hid the humans in toy story, I thought they were just irrelevant to the story and not bc they were trying to hide any imperfections lol
same !
limitations inspire innovations
This kinda help because the movie is about Toys as the focus, the Toy's Story.
i thought it was so you could get the story more from the toys pov
Ditto, it was like Nanny from Muppet Babies.
I used to think the Polar Express was real and not animated
Same
same
same
Kinda wrong at some parts it was animated and Most were is. real
Technically you're not wrong
The narrator: Human skin needs to be smoooth
My acne filled face: :(
Aww ❤️ don't worry girl I feel you
I call them strawberry freckles
@@jaemay_ well..glad to know I'm not completely alone
@@utatanepikoV5 yeah but I have tiny blackheads,whiteheads,boils and acne marks..like..almost grey in color and they totally ruin the way my face looks so I wouldn't exactly call them that lol
Go see a dermatologist if you're so worried then. Worked for me, a bit painful but worth it
When I saw Andy in toy story 4, I was like “who the heck is that?!”
That OG big eyed alien head boy will always be Andy to me.
He mars
Agreed
That original gangster big eyed alien?
Same, like... before I watched Toy Story 4, I would taught like... eeeh another boring movie, like the previous Toy Story
But when my lecturer plays it in my class ( as were were actually study about story telling). I was like, HOLY CRAP THOSE LOOKS AMAZING LOL
The original one was a little gremlin
So basically Violets hair is just Pixar flexing their skills? *I love it*
Imagine Brave or Tangled lol
they have better hair than most of us
They even said as much in the commentary for Incredibles 2. :)
Coco took my breath away when they showed Mama Coco. No animation will EVER top the detail of her character!
Yeah ik right, i mean she looks beautiful
100%
No kidding, every Pixar movie has its shining moment when you can tell the animators were so proud of it. For Ratatouille it must have been the part when Remy ran behind this insanely realistic-looking loaf of bread. For Monsters Inc. it must have been when Sully fell into the snow door and as he lay on the ground, every single strand of his hair moved independently in the wind and you could see snowflakes gathering in his fur. And that was a long time ago!
It’s sad because I hear she didn’t get any money promised from Disney when they took inspiration for coco from the movie
@@sunsetsilliest she was never promised nomey
I never realized that Andy in toy story looked this bad.
Being a kid was beautiful. Not realizing all the flaws...
Same. And this is why watching cartoons I used to watch when I was younger hurts.
Not really, it was not considered bad back then even to adults, because everything was new. 3D animated film was a novelty in '95
Lenka Skzh he was scary now that I look back😫😫😭😭
Yh now he ugly
same
You can tell that this video was made for a general audience, because the narrator refers to modellers, texture artists and simulation artists all as "animators"
I think general audience understand what modellers, texture artists and simulation artists are..it's not that hard lol
if they explained the distinctions I'm sure the audience would've followed
I would say that I’m a part of that “general audience” but I would’ve been able to understand even if they used words like that. Honestly I think they’re just lazy
They're all animators, the video talks about the evolution of animation and not the specific jobs doing it.
@@aeljerzheevalencia9341 no they aren't
1997 old animated humans: are clearly old but aren't all that wrinkly
2020 old animated humans: *hwinkles*
Huh❓
@@liamweddell4223 he meant wrinkles but misspelled it
don’t furrow your brow or you’ll get h w i n k l e s
@@crimsongirlfriend6368 LOL
"Boo, the film's only human character"
Black kid at the end *visible confusion*
Racist
@@squiddyzbattlecats1167 they just said that they were black, how is that racist?
@No YeLLInG On THE BuS i think he’s talking about the kid that laughs at Mike
@@squiddyzbattlecats1167 oh shit we got ourselves a sensitive person overhere
@@squiddyzbattlecats1167 I found the Twitter user
Random fact:
Mickey Mouse was the first ever cartoon character to talk. In the 1929 episode, The Karnival Kid, Mickey’s first words were “Hot dogs!”
We all know that but it make sense why Mickey keep saying "Hotdog" on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
guessing that’s the inspiration for the hot dog hot diggedy dog song
So that's why hot dogville, is his town.
Thank you 😁
You learn something new every day 😋
*Luxo The Lamp:* (HOP HOP HOP HOP HOP HOP)
*The Letter 𝐼:* _"I fear no man, but that thing... it scares me."_
The lamp has a name?
I am the manager ya lol
@@themayo2713 Yeah. Just watch the Pixar short called "Luxo Jr."
I am the manager there’s this old short on Disney+ called “Luxo Jr”
Seth Belfort no
The hair in Tangled is absolutely gorgeous. When I rewatch the movie sometimes I just watch Rapunzel's hair
One thing that is notable is that Pixar went the more stylized route with their humans after Toy Story, while other companies, such as Dreamworks, gave us some of those uncanny valley characters that are a bit disturbing (although they later adopted more cartooney artstyles in later features). I think the lesson is that trying to animate and design 3D realistic humans always look a bit off; you gotta sprinkle that with a bit of creativity and stylization to help convey feelings in a slightly more exaggerated manner.
This makes me rethinking of Square Enix's CGI with Final Fantasy characters.
@@FauZhee they did a fantastic job with Final Fantasy VII Remake, however. Characters still look stylized but with more grounded and functional designs as if they were "real".
I feel like monsters versus aliens is where DreamWorks decided that realistic humans are actually really creepy and they should stop animating them
Isn't it ironic how the hardest thing to animate for Pixar was our own species?
Probably because our brains are very fine tuned for what makes someone look human, whereas our idea of toys, bugs, fish, etc. is a lot less specific and refined.
@@rachelhansen2417 Maybe it's also because we get more relatable to human since we're...well...human. So we get easier understanding since it's like watching your face on the reflection...which is "attachable" mostly.
No, the hardest thing for _any_ studio to animate was human. Not just pixar. Humans are complicated, and everyone has a hard time over simulating realistic-looking humans.
Since its really complicated, no
Our species is the thing we know best, so it is exactly what is really difficult to animate actually :) just think of all the sublte changes of human expression... The slightest difference in the orientation of a brown or a lip can make an enormous difference in the expressione conveyed!
As an artist , hair is always the most difficult to draw/animate. Hair always moves in different direction depending the way the character is moving.
What's even harder is making it not clip through the mesh
Yes hair is hard to animate but draw? Hands will always be the hardest
Ae Me ikkkkk so hard
Me using blender: nAh jUsT mAkE a hAiR, coMb iT, aNd bAkE iT
Wow
“How did you animate Mr. Incredible?”
Animators: *Goo*
G O O
*G O O*
Gaa
G O O
R E E
2:04 "woody was floppy and loose." quote of the day.
Lmao
“Human skin needs to be smooth”
Oh believe me I’ve been trying
Relatable af.
same
Mine is smooth
@Pootis Spencer yes
@Pootis Spencer I use skin products.
That's it. :/
To remove all the damn imperfections
When you realize all pixar movies are experiments
Only some people know that I changed it then changed it again and now am changing it again
**le gasp**
LE GASP!!
Just kidding
Experiments that make you cry
And not one movie will be finished by their standards.
They all are.
Can we just talk about how much Andy improved in just 4 years for TS and TS2?
Just? 4 years is a long time bro. How different is a new born to a 4 year old, a 4 year old to an 8 year old, a 12 year old to a 16 year old and finally to a 20 year old?..
Half a decade is a good chunk of time mi amore
@@johntonssen7231 is it a good chunk of time? Yes. Is it still impressive? Yes. With your logic, what is a 1999 year old to a 2005 year old? We’ve been around for 2 million years and we’ve expanded a lot in just the last century.
Pixar's state of mind is so inspiring to me. When they don't know how to do something, they don't give up on it- they create new tools, they push their limits, they try new technologies and use this to evolve... that state of mind is where I want to be.
Have you noticed how he showed the “Where’s my supersuit!?” a lot of times?
Yeah 😆
It's too iconic
WHERE
IS
MY
SUPER
*_SUIT?_*
He lost his super suit and is trying to imply that to us by slowing down the scene
@@celinavarchausky5333 lll
One thing I really respect and appreciate about Pixar’s animation is that even though we now have to technology to render humans really realistic, they stylize their characters. But also in ways that actually reflect the personalities of those characters. Like how Mr. Fredrickson is a very square, boxy shaped old man, which kinda reflects how he acts. I feel like other animation studios don’t put that much detail into the actual character design.
0:40
Hair
Skin
Muscles
And *breaking your back*
@No YeLLInG On THE BuS comedy 100
I think what he meant was movement.
@@liamweddell4223r/wooosh
I cannot believe that people can make all new people and humans from nothing and make a whole 2 hour movie. Like FR. Animators are like magic.
I clicked faster than the roller coaster King da ka when it’s going down
What’s that?
Questionable Kumquat it’s the tallest roller coaster in the world
Find my comment
Krist Salv No
@@kivifox01 I actually went on it. It's nice.
Fun Fact:
Toy Story was the first CGI animated movie
3llaAdvance _Ninten :) cool!
Yessiree
Actually no,search “Cassiopeia”
LUPO when I searched this one up it didn’t say it was the first CGI movie, but if you search up “what is the first CGI animated movie” you will get Toy Story as an answer
LUPO :) probably no one knows about Cassiopeia
*Great & important informative video for the young generation. Thanks.*
@@zacharyreynolds4303 yeah
why is this bold
*damn you be bold*
2:17
That looks like the guy who fixed Woody's arm
Child me watching "Toy Story": wow this is so realistic
Me now watching this video looking at the characters from "Toy Story": bish I can't see =_=
They used to look like Sims
@Ari Blox bruh how can you see how I look this is a picture of Jimmys Mom with Carl💀
@Ari Blox you do realize you can watch any movie by paying?, meaning you can watch the original toy story in 2020. You don’t have to be alive the year it was released to watch it.
Yeah, when I first watched Toy Story around 2008ish, I can't believe it came from 1995. I mean, I don't even know about computer back then when I was 3 yo.
3:38 BRO I THOUGHT THAT WAS A REAL GUY- I was like “lol they based him off a real person”
i knew it wasn't real but i was damn impressed at how detailed they made him in that particular shot. It's still kind of gorgeous in terms of animation...despite it being about a conventionally unnattractive man
1:39
Cannibalism!!!
10:02 I can finally sleep in peace
Seeing Geri's Game and then Toy Story 2 made me realize that Geri is the one who repaired Woody.
They are using many same models in many different movies. Its always beautiful to see some characters in different movies. Like Geri
I am every single time amazed by pixar animations
theyyr
6:28 we all heard what he said even if we didn’t hear it.
Incredible 😏
Where
@@4sythdude549 the literal timestamp rn:😔
@@jesslayy i was hoping for people to complete the quote with me but okay... :(
@@4sythdude549 sorry lol 😂
13:40 I thought that was a real recording for a second.
And that's why early movies, they kinda avoided humans until they were able to improve. And it shows.
Much better now. 👍
These animators need more recognition. Applause for them 👏👏👏
3:48 The scene with him sleeping actually looks incredible. Almost looks like real life if you maybe look it at from a bit far away.
2:32 “Human skin needs to be smooth.”
Me with my eczema: Am I a joke to you? :(
6:23 What my FBI agent sees from my camera every morning
Andy in the first movie looks like he has a toothache but he still happy
12:43 i feel like you can really see that *this* is animation. the present kinda teleports as its being picked up
This makes me appreciate even more Pixar movies
Fun fact: Originally Sully was supposed to have tentacles but it was to difficult for the animators.
Neilsen Ramos ccdvefer
What is that
At least they weren't able to do it. Imagining Sully with tentacles looks weird lmao
boo was originally supposed to be at least 8 years old and have a lot of older brothers.
@@neilsenramos8834 Damn I didn't know that either 😂 thanks for the random fun facts bro 👍
They got some amazing animators on their team
Why do I see u everywhere XD
Fingering Things ✔️ wdgregherrhj
I love you finger daddy
2:57 yes that hand is very smooth
Pixar animators are very smart and incredible that takes decades to make for characters with hair, curly hair , rincles, eyes, and skin
Bro I wanna see what Sid would look like in the current animation. He scared the crap out of me when I first saw the movie 🤣
@@InsaneFox-yl2pc Sid from Toy Story..
He's briefly in Toy Story 3 but with Sunglasses on as he is a garbage man. He looks more realistic.
He’s a psychopath.
When will we see photorealistic humans that don’t look creepy?
In about 5 years. Just look at grand moff tarkin in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. That is almost perfect. I think in about 5-10 years they will look real
I mean, videogames are alway improving in that aspect. Detroit Become Human had pretty realistic humans
The recent Blade runner movie does have a realistic face cgi that its impossible to notice at first glance
@@ceve So much hate for this game, makes me sad.
The "Uncanny Vally" effect isn't completely an animation issue, it's also a human sight perception/brain recognition issue; when we see something trying to imitate us our brains tell us that something is wrong/weird with what we're seeing, and that we shouldn't be seeing it; So no matter how realistic you make animation, someone will find it creepy or unsettling and some things will have to be even a little bit stylized to prevent the "Uncanny Vally" reaction.
who else can hear this: 3:03
Ya I did too
If animation keeps advancing at this rate pretty soon it’s probably just gonna look like live action lol
Lion king 2019 exists
I wish to work in Pixar. I'm an animation student and this looks really fun to work but of course it will be hard.
Rlo Jhan e
@Bea Benbow The Miss Cute and Mean est.2004 live action sounds fun! What's it's like?
@Bea Benbow The Miss Cute and Mean est.2004 exept for the nickelodeon live action
@Bea Benbow The Miss Cute and Mean est.2004 glad to hear :3
Sameeee! except I’m not an animation student.
Wait, literally no one's gonna talk about Andy's eye blinking? 6:45
"Humans have always been a challenging obstacle for Pixar". Mister, humans are always a challenging obstacle for everybody, including themselves😆
How to animate me: film a rock for an hour
Catticus water the rock too
@Pootis Spencer ok
I am a human
@Pootis Spencer
Not nessarily hating their self, they might been saying they do nothing lol
fun fact: you cant look at a word without reading it
Unless you can’t read
Crafty Fox true lol
Unless you don't know the language
Unless you glance at it quickly
WHAAT
2:25 this is the same old man that worked on woody in the second movie.
honestly this video just made me want to rewatch all these movies
Violet was one of my favorite characters as a kid. One of the reasons being, because of her design. Because she has such beautiful long hair! And as an Asian, i always loved my hair to be long when i was little. I even wore headbands to primary school because i was inspired by her! So seeing how far Pixar came with their animation over the years, is just an amazing thing to witness. The Incredibles 2018 sequel really stepped it up with everything. And of course, seeing Violet's hair physics especially in 11:18 was so cool to see. It's not just the perfect consistent strands like before. It was so realistically messed up, it reminded me of my own morning hair 😂
She’s a pretty girl. In fact, she’s on my list of favorite Disney/Pixar characters.
12:33
You can see Boo smashing the table in the background-
Also Polar Express NEEDS TO BE SPOKEN ABOUT MORE
TOO UNDERATED FOR A GREAT MOVIE
Mac Doodles yasss polar express! Best movie ever!
Wow at 3:36 the detail is pretty amazing for an older movie
I love the Pixar style, it looks amazing and I hope it never changes. Also I do some of the stuff they did, showing only lower body parts, using lighting to hide stuff, etc etc
Me, a 3D animator: When will modelers, texture artists, and character simulation engineera be given proper credit?
Insider: nOT TODAY BC EVERYTHING ONSCREEN IS FROM AN ANIMATOR SDFHDGSDUUUUHHHH
i like to think animator as an umbrella term to explain 3D animation to the general masses
its okay..... i understand
Lmfao so true, as a rigger I can relate. We all fall under the ambiguous title "animator"
It's like calling aviation mechanics pilots.
*cries in character rigger*
When you’re watching those movies you don’t realize all the work that went into making it it’s amazing all the work that goes into making even just one scene of an animated movie.
I’ve learned more things in this video than I have learned this entire school year
Took a _computer art_ class in the early 80s. We were all amazed at a sample of how they got a spinning dancer's skirt to wrap around her legs. How time flies!
Me realizing there's a job called " Crowds Lead" makes me appreciate the effort put into these films more
Violet Parr is one of my favorite Pixar characters. She’s a very beautiful teenage girl and she’s even prettier in Incredibles 2. For the first movie, I like the way the animators nearly hid her face under her bluish-black hair until fully revealed in the end. I just think the animators did her beautifully, that’s one of the reasons why I adore her.
I actually kinda liked how they hid the faces of the humans in toy story 1 and 2.
I know it was because they couldn’t show them because of the technology, but it really just added to the “this story is about the toys” feel to it
6:26
My brain: *HoNeY, wHeReS mY sUpEr SuIt?!*
Hats off for all the animators out there
We’re not humans, we’re Pixar
is it just me, or at 9:28, the plate goes through merida? i think i'm just seeing stuff lol.
This is one of the best videos i’ve seen in a long time. The way the narrator explains concepts like subsurface scattering and hair breakthroughs is really effective for people who are unfamiliar with the terms, and the side by side shots really shows how far animators have progressed since the 90s. Amazing stuff!!!
12:52 how did i not notice this, one of the kids parents are both girls, thats pretty unlikely of pixar to do that, its still so cool to see representation
i like this instead of the annoying ass shoving it in our face
we really need to appreciate the work these people do more than we already do. they work so hard just to entertain us for a few hours while they work for years making the movies
I appreciate the simplicity of the old movies they had to be creative in there designs first and foremost
I still remember the golden age of Disney with more better things than today trash remastered
Just to show how being a kid we dont notice all the flaws and inperfections in people we see eachother the same way....I rember this looking so real😔 and now well most of us are over 15-16 😔
nope I'm 12
But yeah I never noticed the imperfections in the animations they made.
We never noticed the imperfections because that was the best we had, not because we grew up. Now that we have a comparison, we notice it. My parents, aunts and uncles didn't even notice it and they were adults.
@@kk5557 I'm 11
@@paperdrum39 who asked
@@nono-dy4sc why does somebody need to ask for a comment
7:19 I laughed way too much at this picture
I never consciously noticed the crowds in toy story 4, it really adds life to the final outcome
Toy Story 4 compared to the first is the best example for this, the animation of lighting and characters was so amazing, gave more emotions just with the flashback scenes with Andy, what an incredible work and evolution
I never realized the step by step processes they had in every movie they made, its such an eye opener. This video inspires me so much, kudos to everyone behind these wonderful movies ✨
I watch youtube to get out of math
This video: (2:40)
Math go
*BRRRRRR*
I swear Soul gonna be awesome, i cant wait
6:47 when you're actually a lizard person and need to blink
Meanwhile the animators busy animating in Pixar's basement: why are we still here... Just to suffer??? Good job y'all for making such wonderful cartoons that made my childhood interesting! WE ALL LOVE YA
more like Disney's basement tbh
Now i understand why it took them 14 years for incredibles. Wow alot goes in to making a pixar movie
As a Current Student of Animation I love this, the fact that I know how 3D Animations are made makes me glad.
Though I ain't much of a detailed artist. I can only make 2D Designs and sketches. When it comes to 3D work, I made a 3D Gun and Zombie Walk Animation.
I was like 5 when Toy Story came out and I was blown away at the animation then so the older I got the better Pixar got. To see them on movie 27 and getting even better is WILD!!
I’m surprised they didn’t point out the complete makeover Tony Rydinger had in Incredibles 2. Dude got a totally new face 🤣
This will terrify the 6 year olds
I D T S
@@macaroniromero3586 what
@@417Owsy I don't think so
Well , many people from all sorts of age group watch animation too you know
The 6 years old are older now so they won't be terrified