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Former-Pixar production designer Lou Romano has posted a massive post on his blog, chock-full of production artwork and tests from his work on Pixars newest film, “Up”. Even video tests. Warning: there could be some spoilers, so don’t indulge yourself if you haven’t seen the film yet and want to be surprised.

As always the art of Lou Romano is gorgeous to behold. Similar to the work from The Incredibles, (production paintings, color/lighting design and artistic direction) this was done to help inspire the look of the film and you can get a sneak peak at the art pices here:






For every Pixar movie, a color script is created, which is essentially an at a glance look at the color keys and tones for the entire film. A color script gives you a good look at how the color arcs in a film relate to the story. Lou Romano created the color script for Pete Docter’s Up, which you can see after the jump. As a color script is an overview of the entire movie, be warned that it not only contains spoilers, but is a giant spoiler.



You will notice that the beginning of the film is heavily saturated. When Ellie enters Carl’s life, she brings much needed color. When Ellie dies, Carl’s life again becomes more mundane and colorless. But the color returns, as with the memory of Ellie and her sense of adventure, when Carl begins his journey with Russell. Each new character brings a new level of color and brightness. Also, notice how the scenes of adventure are bright, and the scenes of danger get dark.

"UP" has yet to hit scandinavia but it sure look amazing and I am pretty confident that it will elevate 3d and storytelling to a whole new level (and maybe even start a small spark for childish adventureisme)

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