Name: Pixar in a Box: Visual Language
Uploaded: 2018-06-17T17:47:14.000Z
Duration: 3 min 3 s
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Hi, I'm Dean Kelly and I'm a story artist here at Pixar.

You know that old saying, A picture is worth a thousand words.

Using simple visual cues, you can communicate

all kinds of cool ideas and different emotions.

And because of this, a single image can tell a whole story.

I'm clearly the most important thing in this frame.

Choosing to put a character in a large space, where they appear small, is one way to communicate how vulnerable they are, or how big their world is.

A low angle can make me seem commanding or menacing.

Everything you see on screen is a choice.

This is development art from Ratatouille.

how important shape and framing are to storytelling.

everything in the frame, including the framing.

but in this frame and from this perspective,

See how we separate from the kitchen with these panes.

horizontal and vertical lines boxing him in.

Take these three main characters from Monsters University.

The artist who designed Mike, Sully and Hardscrabble

show shapes that amplified and reflected their character.

Sully's a big rectangle; he's sturdy and he's tough to move.

It helps her to be intimidating, in the film.

As a visual storyteller, you have a chance

to guide your viewers in all sorts of ways.

Value, or how dark or light something is,

can make it stand out from everything else in an image.

In the movies, size and position in the frame also matter.

In the Incredibles script, this scene was just two people arguing, but the story artist used Helen's stretching abilities and Helen becomes the powerful one in this moment, just by being larger than Bob by stretching.

make a character closer and bigger in frame.

In this storyboard I drew for Monsters University,

you can see how I made Mike dominate the frame

by putting him in the foreground, close to camera.

Mike is coming into his own as a scare coach.

And I made him the biggest thing in frame,

these ideas and use them to help tell your own stories.

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Pixar in a Box: Visual Language

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