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Thinking slowly – Matt Gemmell
Thinking slowly – Matt Gemmell I’ve been thinking about this too. Writing long-hand with a fountain pen, drawing with a pencil on a toothsome piece of paper, are rich sensory experiences that I have approximated with a tablet, but not matched. The speed of thought afforded by the analog instruments (tools is too blunt) is…
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maxistentialist: Ed Catmull: A management team brought in by George [Lucas] to restructure Lucasfilm seemed concerned mostly with cash flow, and as time went on, they became openly skeptical that our division would ever attract a buyer. This team was headed by two men with the same first name, whom Alvy and I…
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maxistentialist: Ed Catmull: In 1997, executives at Disney came to us with a request: Could we make Toy Story 2 as a direct-to-video release—that is, not release it in theaters? At the time, Disney’s suggestion made a lot of sense. In its history, the studio had only released one animated sequel in theaters,…
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Once, I was having lunch with the president of another movie studio, who told me that his biggest problem was not finding good people; it was finding good ideas. I remember being stunned when he said that—it seemed patently false to me, in part because I’d found the exact opposite to be true on Toy…