Yesterday, I went to the Pixar exhibit at the Science Center. Pixar creates most of the animated Disney movies. The exhibit was about the process of making a film. I learned that once there is a story idea for a film, like Inside Out - one of my favorite animated movies - the first step of the process is drawing the pictures. Next, they make the character out of modeling clay and also as a computer image. The character then has to be programmed to be able to move like a puppet but instead of a puppet on strings, it's a puppet on a computer program.  The next step is to add color, and lights to every scene - a very big job. In one scene there can be as many as 250 lights!

In the short movie that they showed  before we saw the exhibit, it they said that the movie Inside Out was really hard to make because they had to figure out how to make Joy, the main character, glow. They ended up using points of light to create her character, which had never been done before and that in every single movie there is something new created. In the movie Cars, they created shine on cars and in Finding Nemo, they had to create water, which is very complicated. The hardest thing is making something computery that doesn't look computery - if you know what I mean.  Everything has to look real.

 I liked the exhibit because there were many computer programs to use and touch and also some physical things to make such as model robots. The downside of the exhibit was that there wasn't a way to make a short video with all of the parts. Instead, you could only explore bits and pieces of programs.