Earlier today, the Trailer Addicts site uploaded not one...not two...but twenty-eight short clips showing anything from in-studio voice acting (which is great), to interviews with Pixarians, to interviews with the amazing voice talent from the upcoming Monsters University.
We scoured through all the videos and have highlighted the clips that we really enjoyed by embedding the videos directly in this post. There are many more clips than what we embedded here, so be sure to read our short descriptions of the remaining posts and feel free to watch one or all of the clips that catch your attention. We can also confidently say that even thought the movie hasn't been broadly released in theaters yet, these clips leave us wanting so much more and we can't wait to see the Blu Ray extras already.
B-Roll #1 (1:48) - shows a great set of storyboards in the process of their creation as well as some early animation tests and other fun animator acting to get their characters' movements just right.
B-Roll #5 (0:57) - highlights some examples of traditional hand-drawn characters as well as great sculpts of Sulley and Art (which we always love)!
The next set of clips focuses on the vocal acting - this was totally fascinating to me as this is a dream of mine. I've always wanted to voice a character in a film not just because I love animation, but because I think it's so amazing to be engrained into the fabric of a character in that way. Every time I can get any insight into this process by watching the actors or taking in the interaction from the director, I'm all eyes...and ears!
B-Roll #2 (5:31) - Shows some of the voice acting of Billy Crystal (Mike), John Goodman (Sulley), Steve Buscemi (Randall), Helen Mirren (Dean Hardscrabble), Dave Foley (Terry) and Sean Hayes (Terri). Keep in mind that these videos are like the clips that were released last year for Brave - they have a music track playing over them that makes hearing the voice acting difficult at times. This was done by design so just keep that in mind, but it's still worth it to hear Dan Scanlon's direction of the actors - it's simply fascinating.
B-Roll #2 (5:31) - Shows some of the voice acting of Billy Crystal (Mike), John Goodman (Sulley), Steve Buscemi (Randall), Helen Mirren (Dean Hardscrabble), Dave Foley (Terry) and Sean Hayes (Terri). Keep in mind that these videos are like the clips that were released last year for Brave - they have a music track playing over them that makes hearing the voice acting difficult at times. This was done by design so just keep that in mind, but it's still worth it to hear Dan Scanlon's direction of the actors - it's simply fascinating.
B-Roll #3 (4:39) - Shows voice acting for Charlie Day (Art), Joel Murrary (Don Carlton), Nathan Fillion (Johnny Worthington III), and Bobby Moynihan (Chet Alexander).
B-Roll #4 (3:19) - Shows the vocal acting for Alfred Molina (Professor Knight), Julia Sweeney (Ms. Squibbles) and Aubrey Plaza (Claire Wheeler) - this also has some great vocal direction by Dan Scanlon to Julia in order to get her to visualize the moment in the film.
B-Roll #6 (1:18) - Great look into a story development meeting at Pixar with Pete Docter, John Lasseter and Dan Scanlon. The video also looks at a brief discussion on the development of Archie the Scare Pig as well as shows us a group of fraternity students that are unseen in the movie.
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| Screenshot from B-Roll #6 |
B-Roll #7 (1:47) - Shows a smattering of clips from Randy Newman's recording sessions.
For the remaining clips of Pixarian interviews and interviews with the vocal talents, head to the Trailer Addicts page - there are 20 additional clips!
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