Allow me-

Yeah, I'm having the same problem.

I forgot about this, but here's Confused Matthew's list of favorite Pixar films, Finding Nemo being at the top and Up being at the bottom:

1. Finding Nemo
2. Wall-E
3. Toy Story
4. Monsters Inc.
5. Cars
6. Ratatouilli
7. A Bug's Life
8. The Incredibles
9. Up

So...yeah. Discuss.

Oh, here's his review of Cars: http://www.confusedmatthew.com/Cars.php

Confused Matthew often confuses contrarianism for profundity on his part. Plus, I'm getting sick of that style of reviewing. Everybody thinks it's their ticket to internet stardom, but most of them are just ripping off what's worked before and haphazardly mashing it together, with little success. Gotta hand it to him though, going against the grain on the internet takes balls.

I will never ever understand the love for Wall-E as a movie.

For me, the reason I don't care for Cars is the bizarre, existential crisis-inducing worldbuilding. Otherwise, yeah, it's perfectly fine. Other Pixar films, especially the Toy Story series, have such small but expansive premises (what if toys were alive? They would feel abandoned when you got rid of them and worry about obsolesce) that to see this was disappointing. So I basically spent the entire movie feeling my brain solely collapse on itself as I tried not to let the underlying horror overcome the story. Where are the people?

A fantastic episode and commentary; I really loved hearing about reflections and shadows, especially in terms of Pixar engineering films around technical advances. I was also crying with laughter last night concerning the Carble, so hats off to you!

Oh, and here's an artist's rendering of the internal workings of the cars from Cars. Sweet dreams.

I'm glad you guys didn't make much of the plot being a rehash of Doc Hollywood. After all, Bugs Life is a remake of Seven Samurai

I had been working on Planes for almost a year now as an animator. 1st thing that's a little misunderstood is that john lasseter isn't involved in the project. That's not true at all. He is actively looking over the production of this movie. He is the creative head of everything that's involved in the making.

Brian would have fun with movie if he's into planes because there are really kool flying acrobatics and stuff. The story is geared towards kids so I can't endorse that.

Teague, regarding the mouth, every possible shape that we hope to achieve is made individually by a modeller like the the dimples on the wider shapes and then the riggers attach them to blend shapes and we can dial up or down the amount of shape we need or mix match them.

Regarding the lighting and compositing workflow, Dorkman was right. The lighters achieve the final look of the frame as much as possible but then they render out every element in passes which then go to comp where tweaks are done to achieve what the director and art director wants the final image to look like.

People might not notice this but we have very strict guidelines regarding how the eye lid shapes work in the cars world. If you pay attention the lids don't work at all like human lids because it's just one line and not 2 seperate ones. The have a step shape or a notch to separate the 2. Just a boring fact

Btw a cool commentary and I agree that we miss the weekly commentaries but thanks for doing them!!