Lots of Very Cool 'Up' Concept Art
Filed under: Animation, Fandom, Images
Now that Pixar's Up has officially landed on DVD and Blu-ray, artist Paul Conrad has posted a bunch of the concept art from the film that he worked on, like the above image (which I pieced together) that includes the original digital photo that inspired "Paradise Falls" alongside the faux magazine article that Ellie first thumb-tacks in their living room. Some interesting tidbits we learn from Conrad's blog:
- According to one image, Paradise Falls was at one point called Angel Falls.
- Initially, 185 Wilderness Explorer Merit Badges were created for Russell, though they only used 47 in the film (see all 185 over at Conrad's site).
- The bird's name was originally Gary, and then later changed to Kevin.
- Additionally, several soda cap badges were also created eventually leading to the single Grape Soda cap that young Ellie pins on young Carl (see all the soda cap designs over at Conrad's site).
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11-14-2009 @ 2:02PM
Kashif Pasta said...
Wow, that's some pretty great stuff! I'm glad Pixar lets their artists post their own work on their sites instead of being neurotic about the copyrights
I was wondering about the grape soda thing yesterday, since there's a lemon soda (or lemonade) bottlecap-badge in the end credits, and I didn't see anything but grape.
And i guess they changed the name of Angel Falls since Paradise Falls is, as they say on the DVD, 3x taller than the real Angel Falls. Not sure how they decide to change something like Gary though :\
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