I still find it amazing that the smallest throwaway thought or action can turn into something enormous.  In yesterday’s cartoon, I decided for the first time that one of the psychologist’s ‘patients’ wouldn’t be drawn with the standard set of facial features I normally give to all of my characters. In my mind, the radio appeared to have a set of facial features all of its own.
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Newsarama.com has an interview posted with Pixar Studios animator and Creative Vice President Andrew Stanton, who discusses how he came about creating ‘Wall*E’ the working robot:
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“I got handed these binoculars at a baseball game, I missed the entire inning. I just turned the thing around. I started staring at it. I started making it go sad and happy and then mad and then sad. I remember doing that as a kid with my dad’s binoculars. I said, ‘It’s all there. There’s no nose, there’s no mouth. There’s nothing.’ It’s not trying to be a face. It just happens to ask that of me when I look at it. I said, ‘That’s it. I can’t improve upon that.”
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The rest of the article can be located here.