Bernie’s daughter Ember (voiced by Leah Lewis) wants to take over the family business, but her literal fiery temper keeps her father firmly in charge.Īnother inspiration for the film came in the oddest, but perhaps completely most obvious, of places. Bernie’s store allowed Pixar animators to fill the frame with wall-to-wall puns and imaginative ways that fire elements interact with their surroundings.
When Bernie and Cinder finally settle down, they open what amounts to a fire-based bodega similar to the grocery story Sohn’s own father opened. Of course, the officer clearly loved puns as he named them Bernie and Cinder.Īs Bernie and Cinder wander in amazement at their new home, every door slams in their face as other elements refuse to mix with fire.
Since they only speak fire language, the immigration officer gives them new names reminiscent of the early America immigrant experience of the 1900s. One of the earliest sequences in the film show to members of the press featured two fire elements who arrive on the shores of Element City and are processed through an Ellis Island-like building. They didn’t have a lot of money, they had no family, they didn’t speak any English, but they managed to create a beautiful life in the Bronx,” Sohn explained. My parents came here from Korea in the late 60s or early 70s to New York. “It’s really a mix of three very personal parts of my life. The Elemental Long Lead Press Days, including a press conference with Director Peter Sohn and Producer Denise Ream in the Steve Jobs Building Theater, from Mato Maat Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, Calif.
Sohn looked to his immigrant family history and the great lengths his parents went to build a better life for themselves in the boroughs of New York City. To fully render Elemental, Pixar required over 151,000 computers.īut the technological aspects of the film are essentially nothing without the deeply felt emotions and personal stories infused into the film by its director Peter Sohn, the hand-chosen director who completed The Good Dinosaur after one of Pixar’s legendary creative team shake-ups and the visual inspiration for Russell from Pete Docter’s Up. The early water sequences of Finding Nemo pushed that number up to 1,000. Toy Story featured just under 300 computers. My favorite statistic from the day stemmed from a simple PowerPoint slide indicating the advancements in computing power required to render Pixar films throughout its nearly 30 years in the feature film business. Elemental takes advantage of bleeding edge technology, and quite simply, the film could not have been made five years ago. During a recent long-lead press day visit to Pixar’s Emeryville headquarters, we were treated to a detailed look at how incredibly complex the film was to imagine and create. Download: 'Elemental:' The Heart, Soul, and Tears Behind Disney / Pixar's Newest Technical Marvelĭisney / Pixar’s Elemental, premiering only in theaters June 16, boasts a colorful pallet of state-of-the-art visuals and special effects as only Pixar can deliver.
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