✨Gem🦦

🪴🦭🪦🦊📷🧘‍♀️🔮

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

John Lasseter took time off from Pixar in 2000, packed his family into a car, and drove the old Route 66. The towns he passed had died the day the interstate bypassed them. That drive became Cars.

Back at the studio, he called Michael Wallis, the historian who literally wrote a book about Route 66, and asked for a tour. Wallis loaded eleven Pixar animators into rented Cadillacs and took them down the old road twice. They ate in diners that were barely hanging on and talked to people who had watched their main streets empty out after Interstate 40 bypassed the old route. Radiator Springs is built from those towns. The movie's whole idea, slow down and matter to someone, came from places the country forgot, not a writers' room.

The animation was the harder problem. Lasseter wanted reflections that actually bent across the paint, because a shiny car shows you the entire world around it. Every Pixar film before this had faked reflections by pasting on flat images. Cars couldn't cheat. So Pixar rebuilt its software to follow each ray of light the way light really bounces around a room. One frame took 17 hours to finish. Even with about 3,000 computers running nonstop, a single second of the movie could take days.

Joe Ranft co-directed Cars, had led Pixar's story team since Toy Story, and drew the first sketches of Mater. In August 2005, with the film nearly done, he died in a car accident at 45. He had already recorded his lines. The movie is dedicated to him.

Cars cost $120 million and made $462 million in theaters, sixth-biggest of 2006. Then the toys showed up. The merchandise sold more than $10 billion in five years, and over 200 million die-cast versions of the cars have sold. Pixar made a story about a racer who learns the finish line matters less than the road to it, and the toys from that story have outsold the movie more than twenty times over.

[Star Wars Holocron @sw_holocron]

Dave Filoni explains why Darth Vader does not speak in MAUL - SHADOW LORD.

“Maul is struggling to let go of hate, but Anakin got consumed by it. If he were to face what he did, it would destroy him more. I find a lot of pity for him because of what he did and the depth of his treachery. And that’s Darth Vader. Anakin’s trapped in there somewhere, and Darth Vader won’t let him surface. And so to me, the key is not to actually give him a character. He’s devoid of it because he doesn’t care. Darth Vader does not care. He does not have compassion. He does not see you. He sees the thing he wants to destroy, and he will do that. It’s like the same feeling you got in Rogue One when he comes down the hallway. He doesn’t talk to those guys. He’s going to destroy them. He has one mission, and all of his remorse and all of his anger and all of his hate is in every swing that he does. That’s how it’s resolved.”

(Source: https://t.co/nKPPX7GDo6)

[Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli]

BTW, just in case it wasn't clear: the ASL remakes were not AI generated or anything like that. Just a ton of hard work from a dedicated team of artists and TDs who cared deeply about doing this properly. My wife was one of the TDs on this!

https://t.co/12dnQJ7D0O

[enjoy•with•maio | designs 🫀🌟 @enjoywithmaio]

Just got my first iPad and LOOK AT THIS WALLPAPER I MADE!! 🫀🌦️🌹

[Brooks | 🏳️‍🌈 @brookstweetz]

This Andor edit >>>

[⭐️Fern⭐️comms open @TheSketchFox]

my favorite thing is that thjey didnt change her face drasticaly, shes wearing make-up but still looks like herself, wich i find important to the whole message of it yk, shes always been beautiful all cinderela did was help her shine

[⋆˙ @soyci7]

every person with taste knows the last jedi is the best one in the trilogy, no debate.

[✨Gem🦦 @lilackiller]

@altontowers I’ve booked a stay in November but can’t book Crooked Spoon for breakfast - where should we book? One of the other hotel restaurants?

[Brooks | 🏳️‍🌈 @brookstweetz]

Does it ever occur to y’all we’ll probably never get a show like this again…..a true lightning in a bottle moment.

[Pinkiemme 🐸 @Pinkiemme]

I have friends everywhere #Andor

[Star Wars Holocron @sw_holocron]

Official in-universe political art protesting the Empire’s control of Ghorman

🎨: Katherine Lam

[Kyle Katarn @Ky1eKatarn]

I still think about the time I wandered the Lucasfilm offices and found a Filoni sketch on the wall. It was like discovering a cave painting

[Somewareatdisney @somewareatdiz]

Fall scenes at the Magic Kingdom 🍁

[jacob @jtimsuggs]

It’s seriously so impressive how Matt Ferguson was able to make updated Star Wars posters SO GREAT, they somehow manage to revival the original theatrical posters.

Absolutely incredible artwork. I hope he’s able to make posters for all of the films one day!

[sarah @heavenbrat]

u better never separate them ever again

[raccoon aesthetic. @raccoonesthetic]

just a lil nap

[kalfuyama @kalfuyama]

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked this old man and he told me "Greetings, Young Portal master"

[♪ saily @noraesoul]

🧵#ZOEY — Character Breakdown
Analysis, a thread.

Exploring what we know about her story, inner struggles, and personality.

[Onwenwaneyi @sia_tee]

I can’t believe we have to enact laws to stop men from marrying children.