Bolt - A Pixar film or not?

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Went to see Bolt last week with my 3 year old daughter... her first ever trip to the cinema.

Thought it was a good film and compares well with other Pixar films of late, except it wasn't a Pixar film... or was it?

The style and characterisations are obviously Pixar. The opening scene is straight from The Increadibles and it even had a Pixar short film at the start. So why was it billed as a Dysney Animation Studio film instead of Pixar? Now that Pixar are a part of Disney is there any reason not to use the Pixar brand rather than try to resurrect the tainted DAS brand?

Only thing I did notice was that while still clearly CG some of the backgrounRAB had a hand animated / matt painting look to them. Also the environments and geography were the most highly detailed and photo-realistic I've ever seen.
 
As far as I can understand, it was not Pixar, just Disney. Although Disney own Pixar and John Lassiter is now high up in Disney and has given some creative input, it's an entirely seperate group of people working out of completely different studios.
 
its part pixar / part disney

though i liked it it isn't really as good as pixras films - it doesnt have that timeless quality they have
 
The previous respondant was correct when they say that it is 100% a Disney production. When Disney acquired Pixar some years ago, John Lasseter was given the new job of overseeing the animation output of both Pixar and Disney. He has kept both studios completely separate. Disney in LA and Pixar in San Francisco. Bolt is the first feature that he oversaw from pretty much the start of the process (it was originally called American Dog and changed considerably when the director was fired and new blood was brought in).

It has a Pixar feel in so much as Lasseter is the life blood of Pixar but it is produced with different people and from a different location. Disney will continue to produce 3D films and will also re-start 2D films at the end of the year and are more likely to focus on fairy tales and musical numbers that Pixar who will focus on completely orginal material (along with a couple of sequels - Toy Story 3 and Cars 2).
 
^Correct, it is a 100% WDAS production.


Not necessarily. Meet the Robinsons was similar, and that was nearly completed before Lasseter became CCO.


Remind me which one of the Parr family is a genetically engineered dog again?


And?


Because it was made by Walt Disney Animated Studios. Pixar has nothing to do with it.

Its like saying that Transformers 2 should not be under the Dreamworks banner, but rather Walt Disney Pictures.


Tainted? Where the hell do you get that from?

WDAS has been through rough patch, but that's in the past now. There's no way its tainted.

Plus, see the above posters explanation on the difference between the future productions from the Mouse and the Lamp.


That is firstly down to the artistic direction of the film. It was always intended that it emulate Edward Hoppers paintings.

They also created special software to create the backgrounRAB alone. Which they were granted 10 patents for.
 
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