orenjacob

This is quite the conversation...

Seen a few attempts at this.. this one seems quite appealing.

I think the other post above is referring to the version of a Toy Story sequel that was in production down in Burbank at Disney in the early 2000's (after TS2 came out). That production was shut down when Disney and Pixar merged in the mid 2000's.

scrapped - after we got this version of the film back, we decided to rewrite the story. that meant that we substantially rebuild the film in the next year, even after we had recovered the version from Galyn's machine.

OK, yeah, that would have been another approach. Perhaps the emotion of the moment motivated us to get the machine back on-prem as soon as possible.

That’s certainly possible. But if folks on this site don’t know how ToyStory or JurassicPark were rendered back in the day, let alone like almost every movie with CG in it since, that would be a little surprising. But maybe?

I developed the curriculum for and then taught the first Pixar University course for newly hired Technical Directors (10 weeks, full time, from day 1 when you started). That was probably around the Summer of 1996 as the studio was growing rapidly to staff up for A Bugs Life. Randy joined some short time after to help grow PU from the 2 new-hire courses (technical and animation) into the much broader curriculum that it has grown into over the subsequent 20 years. I was a close friend of Randy’s then, and still consider him one. He is an amazing person in many ways. And when my wife and I got married in 2001, he was the master of ceremonies at our wedding. :-)

I had been a beekeeper for several years, my daughter manifested an anaphylactic reaction to a sting a year ago, and sadly our bees are now in the Central Valley, but... Yes, the work you mention is significant. But harvesting honey from 4 supers takes several hours even with a heated knife and centrifuge. And the cleanup takes several more.

We did it with my family, and enjoyed it, but if things work as they are shown to in the video, that would be a pretty big win. And, given the cost of an uncapping knife, centrifuge, separating screens, and other paraphernalia, seems like a good price point too.

And way fewer smushed bees.