Steve Purcell meantioned on Pixar Shorts Vol. 1 DVD!
If you have this DVD, watch the Cars short "Mater and the Ghost Light." Towards the end, John Lassenter talks about Steve Purcell's contribution to that particular short, which was designing the Screaming Banchee at the end of the short.
It's interesting to hear what his boss and co-worker thinks of him. The funniest thing that I heard when they talked about Steve was that "drawing monsters is his waste product."
No mention of Sam & Max, but I can only wonder what Pixar thinks of those two.
It's interesting to hear what his boss and co-worker thinks of him. The funniest thing that I heard when they talked about Steve was that "drawing monsters is his waste product."
No mention of Sam & Max, but I can only wonder what Pixar thinks of those two.
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or did some horribly misguided relative give it to you for christmas?
The shorts are usually pretty stupid though.
I mean, at this point, if the powers that be in Pixar wanted to, they could give Steve the opprotunity to actually explore producing a Sam & Max short using Pixar's equipment. But that's if you knew why they continue to make shorts to this day, or course.;)
Don't let that one guy dissuade you. He's just the assistant!
Hm...perhaps...
Seriously though, you should read Transmetropolitan. It's a great comic series and where I got my username from.
The shorts are sorta amusing, I guess, but they could usually be a lot, well, shorter than they are. That abduction one before Ratatouille was dragged way out, for example. So was the band one (I think before Cars?)
The only one I still like is the old guy playing checkers with himself from Toy Story.
Pixar's movies are still fantastic, though. I used to hate Monsters, Inc and Finding Nemo, but it wasn't until The Invincibles that I realized Pixar isn't making comedies, they're just making animated films. Sure, there's comic relief, but Monster's Inc is basically Office Space, and Invincibles is just a regular superhero movie (albeit a very very good one). Cars is a standard "Road trip but gets stranded" movie, and Ratatouille is a story about heirs and inheritances, with a good dash of lower-class oppression, disguised as a cute rat movie about cooking.
whoa I spent way too fucking long writing all that
The Incredibles, my good man.
You sound like a friend of mine that deconstructed Pirates 3 and called the franchise racist without realizing that it was based on a 1965 ride that was contrusted during a time where racial political correctness was exclusive for the governmental forums of the time.
Either that or you are a bigger pessimist than me. And I can turn the world off with a frown.
Those were compliments to the movies, man. Also I don't really read much into regular movies. It's just a waste of time. I thought what I pointed out was pretty obvious.
Toy Story and Toy Story 2 were pretty cool, Bug's Life...so-so, Monster's Inc. was okay, Finding Nemo was pretty good, but more pretty to watch, The Incredibles was really good, Cars was okay and Ratatouille was okay. The short with the birds was annoying and I absolutely detested Boundin', it made me want to go get some popcorn, but I already had a bucket and a liter of cola. I'm taking the kids to see Wall-E, I'm really curious about it.
I bought all of them on DVD for the kids and I had Toy Time, the VHS collection of the original shorts before they gave the chicks in Knick Knack breast reduction surgery. My ex-wife took off with most of my DVD collection and most of my computer games (including both copies of Sam and Max Hit the Road and Day of the Tentacle and other classics) while I was at work.(Funny how ex-wife and Ex-Lax sort of sound the same?)
I haven't even bothered renting all of those Pixar flicks to copy them, much less buy them all over again. The kids don't even miss them. I bought Cars and Ratatoille when they were released.
Ouch!
At least you can buy again most of the DVDs if you want to, but getting your classic computer games disks...
Any chance to get at least some of those disks back?
I keep getting confused anytime someone calls you "he"...