Finding Nemo Preview in Australia

[MickeyMoose15]

Finding Nemo Preview in Australia

The excellent Dark Horizons reports that very rough early work from Pixar's latest effort was presented at the Australian International Movie Convention. "Albert Brooks and Ellen DeGeneres play two fish on the Great Barrier Reef in search of another whose been caught and now imprisoned in a fish tank of a Sydney dentist's office. DeGeneres' character has no short term memory which constantly causes headaches for Brooks. Barry Humphries (aka. Dame Edna) lends his voice to a shark with problems--seems he's joined 'Sharkaholics Anonymous' where other sharks come together to meet and discuss their difficulties and ways to avoid it. The problem? eating fish. Geoffrey Rush voices a pelican and one sequence has him having to rescue the two fish from a flock of seagulls which involves rapid flying and swerving through various sailing vessels. Alongside rush Aussie actors Eric Bana and Bruce Spence will also voice the other two pelican characters. Other sequences include a scene where they ask a school of fish for directions - the group then form themselves into various shapes until they decide upon an arrow."

From Animated News

 

[NowInc]

Seeing how the movie is only 80% done (if even that much...it was only 5% done when i was at pixar) you can imagine how much was NOT shown at this preview. Pixar does this often to "test market" the idea in an early stage so that they can alter things to help cater to what the people want...this is one of the many reasons almost every pixar release has been a huge hit. Expect that "news" to change by the time final release comes about

 

[JLW11Hi]

Originally posted by NowInc
Seeing how the movie is only 80% done (if even that much...it was only 5% done when i was at pixar) you can imagine how much was NOT shown at this preview. Pixar does this often to "test market" the idea in an early stage so that they can alter things to help cater to what the people want...this is one of the many reasons almost every pixar release has been a huge hit. Expect that "news" to change by the time final release comes about

I think a lot of animated movies have test footage presented to the public, especially when they want to show the new animation technology or when something "new" is being attempted. Pixar did this with Toy Story I am sure, and I remember they did it for Roger Rabbit a while back.

Is there going to be any new effects in Finding Nemo? With the movie taking place in a water setting, I would think that "underwater" effects would be used a lot by Pixar.