Paul Pape was commissioned to make an engagement ring box based on Carl Fredricksen's house from Up. He tried to do something different from Michal Miszta's take.
*Buy Up toys at eBay.
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Engagement ring box shaped like the house from Up
Paul Pape was commissioned to make an engagement ring box based on Carl Fredricksen's house from Up. He tried to do something different from Michal Miszta's take.
*Buy Up toys at eBay.
Wall-E on AMC's Hoarders
Wall-E by Kevin Tong. A nice companion piece to the Pixar Warriors art I posted yesterday. Kevin posted a big sale announcement this morning.
*Buy Wall-E toys at eBay.
Russell from Up earns his jousting badge
Russell and Kevin by Chad King. This is the companion piece to the Pixar-inspired pieces I posted earlier.
*Buy Up toys at eBay.
Wall-E and Eve cake
Wall-E and Eve cake by Charm City Cakes. They're having a contest right now, by the way.
*Buy Ace of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes at Amazon.
Costumes based on Pixar's Up
Kris Butiong and his girlfriend Thanh Phamdo dressed as Russell and the house from Pixar's Up. It was made from balsa wood, foam core, and foam sheets. 60+ hours were spent on the house. You can see more photos here and here. Thanh also transformed a mere dog into a fearsome tarantula:
While I'm highlighting cool stuff from 5&A Dime's blog, the store will be the place to be for Dia de Los Muertos on November 2:
Celebrate Dia de los Muertos with 5&ADIME x Flying Panther Tuesday evening 11/2/10. Our friend Rob, owner of Flying Panther tattoo, worked with us in producing an exclusive tee that features his signature talent and will be available for purchase that evening. We all look forward to seeing you at the shop Tuesday night to celebrate Day of the Dead with 5&A Dime...p.s. There will be free beer and food too!
*Buy Up toys at eBay.
Jessie (from Toy Story) pin-up
Jessie pin-up by Jason Chalker, who has lots of great prints on sale here.
Relatedly, I highly recommend this long interview with Toy Story 3 director, Lee Unkrich, and screenwriter, Michael Arndt. It really demonstrates that great stories come from a lot of hard work and a knack for spotting and remembering interesting anecdotes. For example, they spent hours upon hours studying prison movies and garbage dumps. And the early plot point, when the toys get thrown away? Lee explains:
Years ago, my wife Laura and I were moving from one apartment to another and packing everything up. And about a month after we moved to our new place, Laura asked me if I'd seen her beloved stuffed animals, her childhood stuffed animals.*Buy Toy Story Happy Meal toys at eBay.
And I said: What box were they in? And she said, well, they weren't in a box. They were in a garbage bag. And my blood instantly ran ice cold because I realized exactly what had happened: I had thrown all of her stuffed animals away in the dumpster behind our building.
So I feel terrible to this day that that happened, but I do hope that by immortalizing that moment in the movie, that they somehow have been immortalized themselves.
Teddy Newton's Day and Night
Teddy Newton's Day and Night, the short film that played in front of Toy Story 3, has been turned into a hardcover book. If you haven't seen the short, this video shows a small part of the film, as well as some of the pitch:
This film shows talks about the creation of the book and shows several interior pages:
And here's a totally unrelated project by Teddy Newton and Bert Klein. In Boy's Night Out, which was created for a Playboy animation contest, a too young boy visits a strip club:
Day and Night is 32% off at Amazon.
Toy Story Playland at Disneyland Paris
Here's a video tour of the new Toy Story Playland at Disneyland Paris:
Via.
*Buy Disneyland Paris collectibles at eBay.
Engagement ring box shaped like Carl Fredricksen's house from Up
A romantic fellow had seen Michal Miszta's model of Carl Fredricksen's house from Up, and commissioned him to create one that could work as an engagement ring box:
You can read how he made the houses here.
Michal is remarkably talented. He's also posted various tiny figurines that he's sculpted:
As well as a few Munnys:
*Previously: Up-themed wedding.
*Buy Up toys at eBay.
When John Lasseter snuck onto a construction site at Disneyland
Excerpt from a long interview with Tony Baxter, the Senior Vice President of Creative Development for Walt Disney Imagineering and the Creative Executive for Disneyland:
*Previously: Indiana Jones: Temple of the Forbidden Eye as a Left 4 Dead level.
*Buy Disneyland collectibles at eBay.
Really when John [Lasseter] came, and there are others like Pete Docter who are absolutely obsessed with Disneyland, and I think John put it into his contract that not only would he take on the film responsibilities of animation at Disney and animation at Pixar but he had to have his hand in Imagineering as a chief advisor. It’s purely out of that 12 year old mentality that, I think, John has to this day of what Disneyland meant to him growing up in Whittier, CA. He was only about as far away from the park as I was and those visits.Via.
When I first met John, he was very cordial and overly nice to me, and I was trying to figure out “What is this about?” I should be agog at you, but it was kind of the opposite. It turned out, he was a ride operator at Disneyland on the Jungle Cruise and had come over and snuck through the fence when I was building Big Thunder. This would happen all the time, so I don’t remember it, whereas for him it was one of those milestone days. I guess I was there and he said – you have a very cool job, how did you get this job? And I said, oh come on, I’ll walk you through the whole ride. I gave him this tour and talked to him about Imagineering. Like anybody that was young and wondering what their future’s going to be it was something that was really important to him.
I had had the same thing happen to me with Claude Coats. I had snuck into the pirate ride when I was scooping ice cream at Disneyland. I peeked around the corner and they were doing the work, and I thought I was going to get arrested. Instead, I heard this voice that said, “Oh, you can’t see anything good from there – come on over here!” And it was this guy who was delighted in showing it off – turned out it was Claude, but it was always to me “just this guy.” Years later after I’d been working with him three years, I opened my old souvenir book from Pirates, and I looked at “this guy” in the picture that was in there and went “Oh my gosh, that’s Claude!” It was Claude Coats. So I could hardly wait to go into work the next day and I go “Do you remember a guy in a red and white striped…” He goes, “Yeah, yeah, the guy at the ice cream counter, I used to go get ice cream from him and I thought I’d show him the tour.” As he was saying it he goes, “Nooooo.” It suddenly dawned on him that we’d met, and he had so inspired me with that tour. When they docked me for the hour I was late, I said, “I don’t care.” I had just had the best hour of my career so far.
*Previously: Indiana Jones: Temple of the Forbidden Eye as a Left 4 Dead level.
*Buy Disneyland collectibles at eBay.
Toy Story 3 concept art
Nate Wragg posted a bunch of concept art that he created for Toy Story 3.
*Previously: Day & Night concept art.
*The Art of Toy Story 3 is 34% off at Amazon.
Day & Night concept art
Don Shank (who has some great prints on sale cheap here) posted a bunch of concept art from the latest Pixar short, Day & Night.
*The Art of Toy Story 3 is 34% off at Amazon.
Toy Story 3 is...
Simply incredible. Wonderful movie, but a little too intense for my three-year-old. I didn't care for the short film.
*Previously: Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear paper toy; Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear in Lego power suit.
*Buy Toy Story toys at eBay.
The Magician (link roundup)
Tarot Card/Promotional postcard by Edward Kwong.
And a few more links:
1. Toy Story 3 Easter Eggs.
2. Writer talks about the time he hung out at a club and hotel with various NBA players including Ron Artest. Via.
3. Photos show Los Angeles at night in 1908, 1988, and 2002. Via.
*Previously: The Super Punch Tarot.
*Buy tarot cards at Amazon.
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