Taste Visualization for Pixar's Ratatouille In the Fall of 2006, I was contacted by Brad Bird to create a series of animated vignettes for his movie Ratatouille. The concept was to design and animate abstract representations of what the character was tasting. All atwork on this page is Copyright ©2007 Pixar/Disney Conceptual Artwork After discussing ideas and concepts with Brad Bird, I created a series of images to illustrate potential ideas of how the taste could be visualized in an abstract way. These were reviewed by Brad and shown to the music composer as inspiration Soundtracks Provided by Pixar Once we had agreed on a general direction for the visuals, a music score was composed. The dialogue and music was mixed and I was provided with these two soundtracks:
I imported these files in Animo Sound Breakdown software and wrote down all the musical cues on elaborate spreadsheets. Drawing -
Compositing and Digital Enhancements Once all the drawings were scanned, I started compositing everything in Animo Director, adding blurs, shimering effects, and various digital filters. Each of the animation clips were sent to Brad Bird for comments and approval. Remy's Visualization
- Emile's Visualization
Final Compositing Once the pieces were done and approved, they were rendered as a set of Tiffs (with alpha channel) and sent to Pixar for final compositing with the characters.
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