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[Video]: Inside Pixar

[Video]: Inside Pixar

‘What if we could somehow take these feelings – fear, sadness, disgust, joy… and make them into characters? If we do this right, it could be like our version of the Seven Dwarves… Each of them has a very distinct, definite, and very caricatured way of approaching the world…

Pixar’s Pete Docter discusses Pixar and Disney’s latest film, Inside Out – what is a high concept film, and how do you successfully execute it? How do you set an entire film in a twelve-year-old’s mind without making it totally saccharine or dark? What on earth do twelve year olds even think about?

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