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Welcome to Monstropolis
By Steve Head
As entertaining as teaser trailers can be, sometimes the disappointing aftereffect is the fact that, as in the case of ., you'll have to wait almost a year for the film. (The film's second trailer, with its Armageddon-walk, The Doors' "Break on Through (to the Other Side)" and one-eyed Mike Wazowski's (Billy Crystal) dancing closer, "It's a musical! Put that thing back or so help me. So help me!" was equally bizarre and amusing.) Now the wait is almost over, and on November 2nd &#A for me anyway &#A there won't be an issue over which new film to see. Even if Monsters, Inc. didn't have the Star Wars: Episode 2 - Attack of the Clones teaser fastened to the first reel it would still be an undeniable "must-see."
Monsters, Inc. marks the fourth feature collaboration between The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Studios, and the second in Pixar's five picture deal with Disney. As refinements in computer-generated imagery progress, Monsters, Inc. also represents the most technically advanced of the quartet of films (which includes Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2) from the Disney/Pixar partnership. In terms of computing power, more than twice the number of Renermarks (a metric standard, developed by Pixar, which gauges a computer system's rendering capability) were used for Monsters Inc. than were used for than its predecessor, Toy Story 2 &#A 2.5 million to 1.1 million. This doubled-capacity could be attributed to the massive amount of computer-power required to create of the city of M home to the employees of Monsters, Inc., Monster World's largest and most dependable scream processing facility, where the collected screams of real-world children are captured as a power source.
Today we've got some new photos for you, the first of which (above) features James "Sully" Sullivan (voiced by John Goodman), Monsters, Inc.'s star kid-frightener, and Mike, Sully's skilled scare assistant, walking through downtown Montsropolis on their way to work. For Monsters, Inc. it could be said its delight is in the details. You can click on the images for double-sized, higher-res versions. For the next photo, I've included a cut-away from a higher-res version so you can read the headlines for the Monstropolis Horn and see the minute and exacting detail imbued by Pixarians.
CEO Henry J. Watermoose (voiced by James Coburn). Of the creation of Monstropolis, director Pete Docter comments, "We knew we could do just about anything design-wise. We started with buildings that could move and talk and we had some strange architecture that got really weird.
(Executive Producer) John Lasseter pushed us to think in terms of a more reliable Monster World, like our own cities, only designed for monsters.
They've got huge buildings built of steel and stone because they need to accommodate 3-ton guys walking around.
And everything from doors to telephones to cars have to be multipurpose in order to handle everyone from 8-foot monsters to little guys who are only 2 inches tall."
#2 scarer Randall Boggs (voiced by Steve Buscemi) with Mike and Sully.
Mike with the object of his affection, Celia (voiced by Jennifer Tilly).
To capture a look and logic for Monstropolis, Docter sent production designers Harley Jessup and Bob Pauley on research trips to factories, refineries, assembly plants, blimp hangars, and industrial towns.
This included a trip to Pittsburgh to examine the layout and inner-workings of an older company town. Jessup explains, "We envisioned the Monsters, Inc. factory as sort of a '60s era modernist building and the surrounding city has buildings over 100 years old. The notion was that the turn-of-the-century factory had been torn down and (the Monsters Inc. factory) was put up in the 1960s during the heyday of the baby boom. Monsters Inc. is now about 40 years old and feeling outdated and a bit run down.
There is an energy shortage going on now (due to the fact that it's tougher to scare kids these days) and business isn't what it used to be." He adds, "We were trying to make sure that the monsters would be the most colorful things in Monstropolis, so we made the city somewhat muted and the factory a bit on the cool side colorwise. The brighter colors were saved for the characters themselves so that they would really stand out. Our goal was to elevate the color rhythms of the film and make sure we were saving different colors and light qualities for the most dramatic moments."
In the above mug shot is the lonely Yeti of the Himalayas &#A voiced by John Ratzenberger (Cheers), a Pixar regular who previously voiced Hamm the Piggy Bank in the Toy Story films and Flea in A Bug's Life. Yeti's a Human World acquaintance of Mike and Sully's, and he looks forward to those rare moments when company stops by.
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