Pixar movies are just product of extremely hard labor and extreme love of art

I really don't like people who tell kids that their dreams are unrealistic. Just because you can't do it doesn't mean somebody else can't.

I always think that the jellyfish scene in Finding Nemo is awesome, the first time I saw it I felt like I was in an underwater paradise. Actually listening to the woman who made that scene happen, made me feel happy. I generally think science as a one dimensional boring thing which doesn't includes any imagination, but this video made me understand that sometimes, a beauty can come out from science. And talent.

Now this is a TED talk.

Now THIS is a ted talk. You learn something, you enjoy the talk itself and you find the person speaking interesting. ...Why can't every talk be like this?

That got me a bit emotional :) beautifully presented. Art comes in so many forms and really does create magic.

As a scientist and designer, QFT: ""it's this interweaving of art and science that elevates the world to a place of wonder.."

finally a decent ted talk again, bringing art, science and technology together and well explained - kind off sad that this normally decent ted talk stands out as such a positive one in light of the last months - and this talk stands out why we need in and should motivate women into science and coding

I honestly didn't want this TEDtalk to end. I wanted to learned more about the details of science in art and the art in science....

That Wall-E thing with they eyes is amazing!

I always knew that Pixar took its job seriously and that the animation was of the utmost importance to them, but I never realized how important lighting is in its films. It never hit me how lighting could be involved in animation, but how central it is to the believability of the created world. This was so educational! Thanks!

This made me a bit emotional. A lot of my friends say that they like hand drawn animation more, because is has "more life in it". And while I love old movies like 101 Dalmatians or The Lion King, their view on computer animation upsets me a little. So much work was put into movies like Finding Nemo, or Brave, or any other, and they just don't really understand, how it works! They say, that characters don't look alive for them, but that's just SO NOT TRUE! Computer animated characters are as emotional as hand drawn characters, it's just a matter of taste (and in some cases - stubborness.) Animation is great no matter how it was created. This video is really nice!

They should have played the last clip completely through with sound, without interruption by the speaker and it would have hit 10x as hard.

So glad she got to be the artist her inner child longed for:)

Fantastic talk! it reminds me of a quote from Adam savage - "Art and science have always been the twin engines driving us forward as a species." how right he was!

One of the best ted-talk and I watch'em all

It they put that camera to zoom in on my face while I was watching I'd be pissed.

I've got to say my eyes were always glued to the TV when the jelly fish scene came up (when kids were watching it for the 20th+ time), such a beautifully illuminated environment, congrats to her.

Honestly love Finding Nemo so much

Pixar's creations like Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Wall-E are epoch-making work of art. In this awe-inspiring talk, Pixar's Director of Photography - Danielle Feinberg gives how they create a realistic world with the mixture of science, math and art. Highly recommended.

This is exactly why I want to work at Pixar; to be one of the creators of these amazing worlds. Simply love it!

I loved that jelly fish scene when I watched Finding Nemo for the first time. Amazing work!

This is really inspiring, not like those other TED Talks where people come on stage just to show how much they have accomplished and how great they are.

I cried a bit during this. it was so beautiful

This woman, I like her. She does an amazing job, and even in films where the story wasn't all that great (good dinosaur f.ex.), the imagery was just stunning (and the reason i watched it until the end). She is the reason why I have every pixar film in my shelf and continue to watch them on a regular basis. Great woman, great talk. We need more talks like these.

I teach elementary art and this reminds me of my talks with my older kids (10-12 year olds) about how IMPORTANT shading is. I feel like lighting plays a similar role in animation.

This is the dream I am working hard at to make come true for myself. Not going to lie it got me super excited and even a little emotional.

This is beautiful. Very interesting to hear and see the thought process for developing computer animations.

This is amazing... I'm not a big fan of animation movies, but every time I watch one, I just feel the TREMENDOUS amount of work, effort and passion put in creating it! It's just amazing!

Absolutely insane how much detail goes into this art. Cannot believe how complex and complicated this is

She did an amazing job presenting her work... Loved it

she is not only a good artist but also a good speaker.

I've been into animation for a long time, I use a program called maya but it's incredibly complex and hard to use without a tutor. But I still learn more about it everyday after school, it fascinates me what I can do with it and I'm sure the same goes for her.

5:25 that girl's face had me like 😂

finally something good coming out of Ted talks and "trending"

I was told "Art is a HOBBY, NOT A CAREER.". I guess the internet kind of squashed that notion ;-)

I love this. Animation is such a beautiful and fascinating art form.

wow one of the best talks ever

I'm speechless. Her eloquence in conveying ideas that can touch the audiences' soul is just magical!

OMG the last sentence gave me chills

All I knew about an Animated movie was to "just love watching them on screen". But your talk lasted me a food for thought & realize,what it takes to expand one's imagination and bring it to life.

Great TED talk! I love her passion for her work. These films come together with a beautiful dance of science, art, imagination and hard work!

Been a while since I've heard a good Ted Talk, this was excellent, keep 'em coming.

someone should show this to cinemasins

That was beautiful

Aww man, this hits hard cause I'm 18 and still haven't found my calling.

This was inspiring and beautiful - it's lovely to see how you can interweave love of separate things.

This is what I want to do with my life. I've been watching Disney, Pixar, Dreamwork, Laika and other animation studios creation and I can never get over how much passion and efforts they put into both storytelling and animation. Animation has a special place in my heart. They create every details of their worlds and their characters through pencil strokes (in 2D), through computer (in 3D) or through simple material (in stop motion). The artists have the freedom and creativity in every aspect. And that's what I want. I'm personally most interested in hand drawn animation. I want to tell a good story through beautiful frames of drawings. Right now I'm just a student and haven't clearly decided my future job, but I hope one day I can create something this great.

This is so authentic and wonderful. Thanks Danielle. Thanks many times

WOW! I could listen to this every day!

Very insightful. I learned a lot.It's amazing how one small detail can make or break something like a movie. Thank you for this presentation, it inspired me to focus more on the details in my work. It's simply beautiful!

Wall-e was a really cool film ;)

This is not only inspiring but very interesting! I feel like I've learn a lot of new things, and that's great.

i fuckin love her

spectacular explanation about lighting mam ur real inspiration for me one i will be there and proudly say i am an artist of soul

That ending line nailed it!

This is what made me fall in love with Pixar years ago!

The part about Wall-E's eyes is great!

Favorite ted talk so far

0/10 not enough clapping. But seriously though, this was a fantastic talk. I love how she used for examples a bunch of movies that many people are very familiar with and love. It's great.

Not only just animators but directors of photography or lighteners and other different departments are also great artists ❤

I SO LOVE EVERYTHING that Pixar puts out.Thank you Pixar for some great movies

I really enjoyed this Ted Talk.

Once I was 7 years old in the beginning 😂😂

What a *_charming_* and *_talented_* woman. Women have an empathetic streak that allows them to fuse science and creativity together that men just don't have. You go girl! Kind Regards, Wyatt Nite

Danielle you and others like you are todays true artists.You can hear the passion in your voice.

Great to see, this amazing scenery come together! I love animation and i spend years myself designing these worlds. But in the end it is so hard to do this that I moved away and focused on taking pictures of the real world. ( like my profile picture )

That ending was brilliant!

0:23 I relate to that. When I was that age, people told me the same thing

Coming back to the original idea of Ted talk. An expert sharing their knowledge. How invigorating.

This is so beautiful. Amazing👏

Love the material. Thank you for sharing. :)

Thank you! Beautiful talk

LOVE this talk

When I was seven years old, some well-meaning adult asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Proudly, I said: "An artist." "No, you don't," he said, "You can't make a living being an artist!" 00:24 My little seven-year-old Picasso dreams were crushed. But I gathered myself, went off in search of a new dream, eventually settling on being a scientist, perhaps something like the next Albert Einstein. 00:37 (Laughter) 00:39 I have always loved math and science, later, coding. And so I decided to study computer programming in college. In my junior year, my computer graphics professor showed us these wonderful short films. It was the first computer animation any of us had ever seen. I watched these films in wonder, transfixed, fireworks going off in my head, thinking, "That is what I want to do with my life." The idea that all the math, science and code I had been learning could come together to create these worlds and characters and stories I connected with, was pure magic for me. 01:15 Just two years later, I started working at the place that made those films, Pixar Animation Studios. It was here I learned how we actually execute those films. To create our movies, we create a three-dimensional world inside the computer. We start with a point that makes a line that makes a face that creates characters,or trees and rocks that eventually become a forest. And because it's a three-dimensional world, we can move a camera around inside that world. I was fascinated by all of it. But then I got my first taste of lighting. 01:48 Lighting in practice is placing lights inside this three-dimensional world. I actually have icons of lights I move around in there. Here you can see I've added a light, I'm turning on the rough version of lighting in our software, turn on shadows and placing the light. As I place a light,I think about what it might look like in real life,but balance that out with what we need artistically and for the story. So it might look like this at first, but as we adjust this and move thatin weeks of work, in rough form it might look like this, and in final form, like this. 02:28 There's this moment in lighting that made me fall utterly in love with it. It's where we go from this to this. It's the moment where all the pieces come together, and suddenly the world comes to life as if it's an actual place that exists. This moment never gets old, especially for that little seven-year-old girl that wanted to be an artist. 02:49 As I learned to light, I learned about using light to help tell story, to set the time of day, to create the mood, to guide the audience's eye, how to make a character look appealing or stand out in a busy set. 03:08 Did you see WALL-E? 03:09 (Laughter) 03:10 There he is. 03:13 As you can see, we can create any world that we want inside the computer. We can make a world with monsters, with robots that fall in love, we can even make pigs fly. 03:25 (Laughter) 03:30 While this is an incredible thing, this untethered artistic freedom, it can create chaos. It can create unbelievable worlds, unbelievable movement, things that are jarring to the audience. 03:43 So to combat this, we tether ourselves with science. We use science and the world we knowas a backbone, to ground ourselves in something relatable and recognizable. "Finding Nemo" is an excellent example of this. A major portion of the movie takes place underwater. But how do you make it look underwater? 04:01 In early research and development, we took a clip of underwater footage and recreated it in the computer. Then we broke it back down to see which elements make up that underwater look.One of the most critical elements was how the light travels through the water. So we coded up a light that mimics this physics -- first, the visibility of the water, and then what happens with the color. Objects close to the eye have their full, rich colors. As light travels deeper into the water, we lose the red wavelengths, then the green wavelengths, leaving us with blue at the far depths. 04:34 In this clip you can see two other important elements. The first is the surge and swell, or the invisible underwater current that pushes the bits of particulate around in the water. The second is the caustics. These are the ribbons of light, like you might see on the bottom of a pool, that are created when the sun bends through the crestsof the ripples and waves on the ocean's surface.Here we have the fog beams. These give us color depth cues, but also tells which direction is up in shots where we don't see the water surface. The other really cool thing you can see here is that we lit that particulate only with the caustics, so that as it goes in and out of those ribbons of light, it appears and disappears,lending a subtle, magical sparkle to the underwater. 05:18 You can see how we're using the science -- the physics of water, light and movement -- to tether that artistic freedom. But we are not beholden to it. We considered each of these elements and which ones had to be scientifically accurate and which ones we could push and pull to suit the story and the mood. 05:37 We realized early on that color was one we had some leeway with. So here's a traditionally colored underwater scene. But here, we can take Sydney Harbor and push it fairly green to suit the sad mood of what's happening. In this scene, it's really important we see deep into the underwater, so we understand what the East Australian Current is, that the turtles are diving into and going on this roller coaster ride. So we pushed the visibility of the water well past anything you would ever see in real life. Because in the end, we are not trying to recreate the scientifically correct real world, we're trying to create a believable world, one the audience can immerse themselves in to experience the story. 06:17 We use science to create something wonderful.We use story and artistic touch to get us to a place of wonder. This guy, WALL-E, is a great example of that. He finds beauty in the simplest things. But when he came in to lighting, we knew we had a big problem. We got so geeked-out on making WALL-E this convincing robot, that we made his binoculars practically optically perfect. 06:40 (Laughter) 06:43 His binoculars are one of the most critical acting devices he has. He doesn't have a face or even traditional dialogue, for that matter. So the animators were heavily dependent on the binoculars to sell his acting and emotions. 06:56 We started lighting and we realized the triple lenses inside his binoculars were a mess of reflections. He was starting to look glassy-eyed. 07:04 (Laughter) 07:06 Now, glassy-eyed is a fundamentally awful thingwhen you are trying to convince an audience that a robot has a personality and he's capable of falling in love. So we went to work on these optically perfect binoculars, trying to find a solution that would maintain his true robot materials but solve this reflection problem.

Best TED talk ever!

what im convinced is that She is proud of what she is doing with enthusiastic

This Is amazing!!!! Love your passion!!

She could do very well as an actor. Those lines, pauses and emotions were practiced. And it was engaging.

Wow excellent video! Love this so much. 🌱🐙🐢

superb talk.

Outstanding TEDtalk!

That's so beautiful!

I'm here because I love Pixar films.

why does this wonderful video only have 497k views?

it was really amazing, cool educational

love it inspired to become even more interested in the industry

Good talk, takes me back

Beautiful!

mi TED talk favorito de todos

I soo adore this

She made me cry 😥

the jellyfish scene is so incredible

i can't wait for finding dory!

5:24 the poster child for inspiring TED talks

my favorite ted talk inspired me

Amazing!

Literally the perfect TED talk. You've got the T, the E, the D, and most importantly, the magic.

What a beautiful talk! I feel inspired to become a computer graphics artist myself :)

This one has me crying. What a great talk!