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I wholeheartedly disagree. Pixar does not have a monopoly on attention to detail. They're flush with cash and their leadership has decent taste. There are so m
by echelon 2y ago
I wholeheartedly disagree. Pixar does not have a monopoly on attention to detail. They're flush with cash and their leadership has decent taste.
There are so many creators putting in intense work, and doing it on low budgets. You can't claim these folks don't have attention to detail. Check out A24, low and mid and low budget films, or independent films and you'll see a wide assortment of highly meticulous storytellers.
Pixar, on the other hand, isn't low or mid budget:
Toy Story - $30 Million
A Bug’s Life - $120 Million
Toy Story 2 - $90 Million
Monsters, Inc. - $115 Million
Finding Nemo - $94 Million
The Incredibles - $92 Million
Cars - $120 Million
Ratatouille - $150 Million
WALL-E - $180 Million
Up - $175 Million
Toy Story 3 - $200 Million
Cars 2 - $200 Million
Brave - $185 Million
Monsters University - $200 Million
Inside Out - $175 Million
The Good Dinosaur - $200 Million
Finding Dory - $200 Million
Cars 3 - $175 Million
Coco - $175 Million
Incredibles 2 - $200 Million
Toy Story 4 - $200 Million
Onward - $175 Million
Soul - $150 Million
Luca - Unknown but probably around $150 Million
Turning Red - $175 Million
Lightyear - $200 Million
For that amount of money, they had better pay attention to detail.
Miyazaki is doing way more with much less.
Voices of a Distant Star was one person -- Shinkai. That's the kind of thing we'll see more and more of. Small creators reaching audiences and building studios. Gooseworx, psychicpebbles, Vivienne Medrano. That's the algorithm of tomorrow.
AI, as a tool, makes this more possible. One of the first people to do it successfully was Joel Haver, and he's just the first of many to come.