Bloopers, outtakes, and horror stories of SIGGRAPH films

Abstract

LASSETER : Were going to start about 24 seconds early. We've got really a full program here. We'd like to make one announcement first-that there's absolutely no videotapin g allowed in this session. If anybody sees someone videotaping next to him, they have the co-chair's permission to beat th e living daylights out of them. By the way, it won't matter. We have two gian t electromagnets just inside the door. When you leave we're going to turn them on. REEVES : John and I got this idea at last year's SIGGRAPH. You come to SIGGRAPH every year and go to the film show , and everything is so slick. It's just great most of the time. Bu t behind the scenes there's a lot of effort, a lot of horror storie s and a lot of bloopers. We thought we'd have a session abou t that. LASSETER : Over the past few years at Pixar, Bill, Eben and I have started saving some of our more ridiculous mistakes, such as when the rendering just doesn't go quite right and the head i s about the size of a pin. We started saving those thinking tha t some clay we'd like to show them and so we're able to sho w them here. We told AV this is about bloopers, so if they screw up , then it's all part of the show. We left the form of this sessio n open so that if Bill and I heard of some more silly thing s occurring in films that were made this year, we would add them. Since the panel was formed we've added two more speakers and I think you'll really enjoy their stories. . We'd like to start with our first speaker. Put your hands together for a big SIGGRAPH welcome for Mr. Loren Carpenter of Pixar. I've been given the dubious honor of speaking first. I don't know what that means in this situation, but the first thin g we're going to do is show you a film, Vol Libre, I did about nine years ago. There is sound on this, but I don't want it very lou d because I'm going to talk over it. There are a couple of stories with this film. It was done o n evenings and weekends at Boeing on CAD equipment that we had, and it had absolutely nothing to …