A Few Good Monsters

I watched Monsters Inc. this afternoon.

I got home from work, and while I was preparing my sandwich, I decided to watch a movie. Having a quick browse through the DVDs I could find, I settled on this lovable children's movie rather easily.

Here are a few facts from this awesome film.

> Sulley's fur has over 2,320,413 hairs.

> Randall's original name was Ned.

> After Sulley says goodbye to Boo, he closes the closet door. When Boo jumps out of bed, she has grown 7% by the time she reaches the door. The programmers had to do this as she was too short.

> The ingredient list on the cereal that Sulley feeds Boo is as follows: Tentacles (includes suckers), sugar pods, gelatin, artificial flavor, artificial color (Yellow 53 & 54, Red 400, Blue 21, Plaid 16, Puce 30), salt, seawater, naturally occurring mercury, barium, sulfuric acid, lead, bile, blood, sweat, tears, zinc oxide, vitamins D & F, anemone, brine shrimp, coral, plankton, deadly pufferfish, depleted uranium (to preserve freshness).

> It normally took 11 to 12 hours to render a single frame of Sulley because of his 2.3 million individually animated hair strands.

> In keeping with the running gag of Mike being obscured in every photo, on the DVD the hole in the disc appears directly over where Mike would be standing.

It's pretty amazing how much work animators, writers, draftsmen, scriptwriters and all other staff put into making these films. Especially at Pixar Studios, where they often have gags, characters, objects, themes and things recurring throughout many of their films. I love it. You really can "feel the love" put into these films by those who work on them. I guess that's the prime reason why Pixar films are so popular and successful: they are passionate works of art made for others to love and enjoy.

Yes, I realise this was a pretty bland post, but I felt like heaping praise on aforementioned film studio, so I did.

So there you go. I hope you find that interesting. I love Pixar films. :-D
God bless and goodnight!!

Science Fiction

"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity."
- Albert Einstein