Pete Docter - The Art of Inside Out

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It asks big questions: What if your emotions had feelings too? What if they lined up each day, like a new version of the Seven Dwarfs, and set out to finish the task at hand? How can the head of a young girl be home to so much adventure? Who is in charge when everything starts to change? Is it OK to not be OK all of the time? Inside Out is also hilarious. And beautiful. Like life. When director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera asked me to be the voice of Joy, it was a huge and generous gift. Working on a Pixar film is like standing close to a glistening, beautiful machine. Every part of the machine is unique and in constant motion, operated by incredibly talented people who work hard to serve the story.

I was able to spend hours Living in Joy, which meant I could speak from the heart and love with abandon. It was emotional cardio and I am deeply convinced that playing Joy has added extra years to my life. Some days were spent laughing, while others were spent crying. As Joy fights against change, we get to see the struggle between her and Sadness, soulfully voiced by Phyllis Smith. Their journey together teaches us about compromise and negotiation, and reminds us that no one can achieve anything alone. Joy and Sadness make their way through different parts of the Mind in an attempt to get back to Headquarters.

Along their journey they visit colorful and bizarre environments. Long Term Memory. Abstract Thought. Dream Productions. Imagination Land. While Joy and Sadness struggle, the ragtag group of Fear, Anger, and Disgust are inside Headquarters running the show.

The hilarious Bill Hader, Lewis Black, and Mindy Kaling all remind us how funny and frustrating each emotion can be. Life isnt as simple as being happy or sad, and when our emotions rub shoulders, we see where true pain and beauty live. Nobody understands this more than the folks at Pixar. Writer and director Pete Docter says watching his daughter Elie grow and change is what inspired the film. We first met Elie when she was the young and brave voice of Young Ellie in the amazing film, Up. Now Elie Docter is a young woman (because as much as scientists have tried, they still havent found a way to stop children from growing older). Inside Out is about the things that happen when our young and brave voices start to change.

It is a buddy comedy, a road movie, a Christmas film, a classic Western, a sci-fi thriller, a Bollywood musical, and a comic book blockbuster. Ok, maybe I am genre pandering, but it is for sure a deep and funny look at what happens when our emotions jostle for control. Please enjoy this book filled with the beautiful art that inspired the film. I am amazed by the scope and depth of the artists work that is contained here. I cant draw a bath. If the world was left up to me we would all be living in tents on a dirt road and using rocks for money.

I continue to be in awe of what these artists do and I am forever grateful that I was asked to give a voice to Joy. At the end of the film, Joy and Sadness hold hands and a new color is formed. That is what Inside Out and the films of Pixar do. They invent new colors. They create new emotions. They introduce us to new worlds.

And the best part is that these places feel like home, because they have been with us all along.

RALPH EGGLESTON Digital painting

INTRODUCTION

Pete Docter When I first pitched this idea to peopleIts a movie about the emotions inside a kids mind!I seemed to get one of two reactions. They would either give me a wide-eyed smile, or stare at me blankly and tilt their head like Lil Nipper the RCA dog. Eventually I came to realize that both of these responses were actually the same. People were saying, Yeah, good luck making that. The idea was rather abstract, but in my enthusiasm I didnt realize just how difficult it would be to make it concrete.

Most our films had somewhere to start: bugs, fish, robots... even our monsters were based on some combination of animals. But what do emotions look like? Or abstract thought? Or the subconscious? Here we had nothing to measure against, nothing concrete to tell us when wed got it right. Of course, the answer to what the mind looks like came from the mindspecifically, the minds of our amazing artists. The designs emerged slowly, vaporous at first, gaining form and solidity. Some would lock in quickly, while others were more difficult to capture.

It was a mysterious, fascinating processand a little scary when wed look at the rapidly shrinking schedule. But over time, the characters and world moved from foggy notions into actual things we could build, paint, and light in the computer. This process felt so unique and exciting that we wanted to share the experience with you. So we organized the artwork in this book much the same way it felt to us making it. First youll see a vast array of concepts; far-out stuff from a wide array of artists. Out of hundreds of drawings and paintings we found a few that felt right, which we refined and made more specific; those are in the center of the book.

Towards the end youll see work done as the movie was being made: design refinements, animation thumbnail drawings, and lighting studies. Ive included a few captions here and there to give you more information about the context of a drawing. But other than that, we decided to let the artwork speak for itself. Looking back, I think those of us who worked on the film all relate to Joys journey through the unknown expanses of the Mind. It feels like we all went on that same trek.

RALPH EGGLESTON Digital painting

RONNIE DEL CARMEN Marker and pen In an early version of the story, an upheaval in Rileys life caused a literal earthquake inside Headquarters.

RONNIE DEL CARMEN Pencil Early story outlines had Riley transported inside her own mind.