Overview
“Finding Nemo” is an American computer-animated film written and directed by Andrew Stanton. It was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures on May 30, 2003. The production was done at the Pixar Animation Studio in Emeryville California with a crew of not more than 180 people starting from January 2000. The total production cost of the movie is 94 Million USD. It has a runtime of one hour and forty four minutes.
The story of the movie is about the adventures of the overly-protective clownfish named Marlin and his young son Nemo – who was separated through a series of unfortunate events. The story unfolds as the two meet different friends and enemies along their separate under-water adventures …show more content…
Fishes do not have the traditional limbs to allow strong silhouettes. They have to create a way to express the characters’ anthropomorphic emotions with tails and fins. Unlike characters like Buzz and Woody from “Toy Story” that move in earth-based gravity, characters in “Finding Nemo” does not follow the normal laws of gravity instead, they follow more advanced theories and physics of buoyancy. Fishes generally do not have appealing and expressive facial characteristics. Ultimately, underwater scenery constantly moves even in still …show more content…
Almost every shot involves simulated movement. There are also more things that happen per frame by a pretty significant amount than the average.
A typical frame in a Pixar film that has 1/24 second of screen time usually may take up to six hours of rendering but the underwater environment was so complex that some frames in “Finding Nemo” took as long as four days to render.
Application
Andrew Stanton, director/writer of “Finding Nemo” was inspired from series of events in his own life.
A visit to Marine World (Six Flags Discovery Kingdom) in 1992 made him think about the possibilities of undersea world computer animation. He also recalled childhood memories of a fish tank in his family dentist’s office. The final piece of inspiration for Stanton was his own relationship with his son.
Software
Pixar, best known for its CGI-animation has released award winning films created with the animation studio’s own image-rendering application programming interface, RenderMan.
Pixar also has proprietary animation software used for modeling, animating and lighting called Marionette.