I finally watched monsters university and it is 1 of the best Pixar films that I've seen to date. I don't mean to sound like a hipster but I'm not really a big fan of toy story. Everyone I've asked, what's your favourite Pixar film, they've replied with toy story 3.
The animation is monsters university is the best I've seen. Theyve obviously used ques from brave. Even know brave didn't do that well in the box office it still advance the hair and fur the technology within the 3D world. The lighting and shaders were vastly improved. When sullivan was in the shadows his pink spots would appear dark blue or violet. So early had a lot more strands of hair this time. As technology has got better with quad cores and 16 quad god knows what computer specifications are running at pixar. By having a better cpu and gpu you are able to process a lot more frames and in better quality.
When the characters were walking across the grass, as they sat on the grass and steps away the grass re spring into shape revealing the illusion that they actually are stepping on the grass. I'm not sure if animated that by hand or that got a system that automatically does it for them and this is how far technology has come. For the original toy story the one human character andy's mum and that's because human characters were too expensive to create an animate due to the simplistic design of the ties they were able to get my expressions out of it without losing the illusion that the toys were alive.
Monsters university was a prequel to monsters inc and it shows how make and sullivan's friendship came together. Everything that was said or shown was subtle hints for the previous pixar films and the sequel which is monsters inc.
I know I've mainly talked about the animation but that's what I'm passionate about.
