PIXAR: 20 Years of Animation. Pixar: 20 Years of Animation showcases the multidisciplinary talents of Pixar Animation studios, tracing the creative processes.

PIXAR:20 Years of Animation

Pixar: 20 Years of Animation showcases the multidisciplinary talents of Pixar Animation studios, tracing the creative processes from the earliest hand-rendered drawings through to digital technology. The show illustrates the story and imagination central to Pixar with a range of 2D and 3D artworks as well as spectacular immersive environments.

The exhibition spans all of Pixar’s ten feature films:-Toy Story-A Bug’s Life-Toy story 2-Monsters Inc.-Finding Nemo-The Incredibles-Cars-Ratatouille,-WALL*E -UPThe collection of artworks expose the process from initial idea through to final piece.

The exhibition features concept drawings and sketches showing the development of characters, hand drafted storyboards and “colorscripts” that visually demonstrate the mood of key scenes in the films.

Paintings, pastel drawings, collages, digital paintings and sculpture also feature.

Accompanying the artworks are digital media pieces, interactive information kiosks and a range of highly innovative installations.

Zoetrope

Pixar technology has revolutionised the concept of optical illusion and created a real time, 3-D zoetrope that brings to life the characters of the movie Toy Story.

Artscape

The Artscape is an immersive video wall and sound installation (8ftx48ft) that turns many of the artworks featured in the exhibition into 3-D images – truly immersing you into Pixar’s world.

ATTENDANCE FIGUREVenue

City & Country Number of visitors

MoMA14 Dec 05 - Feb 06

New York, USA

NA

Japan Tour Jul 06 - 1 Feb 07

Japan NA

Science Museum1 Apr - 10 Jun 06

London, UK

75,500

The National Museum of Scotland2 Mar - 28 May 07

Edinburgh, Scotland

51,651

Australian Centre for the Moving Image28 Jun - 14 Oct 07

Melbourne, Australia

164,750

Helsinki City Art Museum29 Jan - 27 April 2008

Helsinki, Finland 42,936

Hangaram Design Museum 02 July – 07 Sep 2008

Seoul, Korea 120,000

MARCO Museum 07 March – 07 June 2009

Monterrey, Mexico 268,377

MoMa, New York, U.S.A14 December 2005 – February 2006

Science Museum, London, UK01 April – 10 June 2006

The National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK

02 March – 28 May 2007

ACMI, Melbourne, Australia28 June – 14 October 2007

Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland

29 January – 27 April 2008

Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul South Korea

02 July – 07 September 2008

Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico

06 March – 07 June 2009

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan08 August – 01 November 2009