Why Disney and Pixar’s Elemental is their Most Ambitious Movie to Date

June 20, 2023 - 04:30 PM

Director and Co-Writer Peter Sohn and Director of Photography Jean-Claude Kalache join us this week to tell us about the making of Elemental, Pixar Animation Studios’ “most ambitious” movie to date. The Dolby Institute podcast discusses Pixar’s famously demanding story development process and why this film took years just to get to an outline, how this film deals with some much more grown-up themes than the typical Pixar fare, and the unique challenges of animating two lead characters made up entirely of either a glowing, iridescent flame (Ember) or a blob of translucent liquid (Wade).

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