TED TALK : The magic ingredient that brings Pixar movie to life.

I choiced the talk : "The magic ingredient that brings Pixar movie to life", by Danielle Feinberg.

The presentation is young woman’s story, Danielle Feinberg who is now Pixar's director of photography. She explains that when she was 7 years old she would like to be an artist but everyone advised her against. So, she chooses to study computer programming in college because she liked sciences and math. One day, her computer graphics professor showed their shorts animation films elaborated with programs; it's the moment when she knew exactly what she wanted to do of her life.

Then she begins a stage in Pixar’s studios, where she works now. She explains in this presentation how sciences and codes enable to create animation films more realists. To create a new world for films, it needs programs with 3 dimensions for that the camera can to move around inside that world. Then the most important it’s how they integrate the light because light can be used to create an especially mood, or define time of day if story unfolds in middle of day or at the night in lit street. With animation films they can to create all wonderful worlds, as they want, they are artistically free. But sometimes it is source of jarring to the audience. Answer ? Science. She takes example to film; Nemo and then Wall-e.
 
During her stage in Pixar’s studio, she worked for film: Nemo. And it's a scene with jellyfish which enabled her to finish her studying. Nemo is animation film which unfolds in sea, so they must to create a world with every element who there are in the "real" sea. Its why before creation's beginning, they search information about real world, and then they try to recreate these special elements with programs in the computer. The sciences enable to understand natural’s phenomenon and coding to reproduce virtually it. Among example of physique in the water who they integrate in Nemo; there are wavelength surge, swell, underwater current and the particles in movement. But also, caustics (physique phenomenon when light enter in the water) among more important which enable to define for example; where is the surface of the water, or show fog beams… so in these films, sciences and artistic completed to create a believed world.

The contribution of science in Wall-e’s film is different because the problem weren’t the world but from characters. In this story the main character is Wall-e a robot who folds in love from another robot. These robots don’t talk and haven’t facing expressions but have moods and emotions. So how they can to arouse moods without words? The secret: the light. They used his binoculars to create the triples lenses like humans; with black of an eyes, grey aperture blades and black pupil. Then positioning of light in different lenses or sometimes something reflected in his eyes to create moods and enable to spectators to understand characters. For example when he meets Eve and fall in love we can see Eve in Wall-e's eyes.

In conclusion, with her sciences skills she contributes like an artist to develop better films.