Talk:Bolt (film)

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Contents 1 The name 2 Confirmed Name is Firehouse Dog 3 The visual style of the movie 4 A question 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Bolt-firstlook-big1.jpg 6 Fair use rationale for Image:Bolt-firstlook-logo.jpg

[edit] The name

The only evidence that the name is "Hollywood Dog" is a blog article which mentions that it's one of the top contenders. I have no idea why the article was renamed - there has been no official word from what I can see. Esn 01:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Confirmed Name is Firehouse Dog

In canada, commercially spread name is Firehouse Dog —Preceding unsigned comment added by Crawfordknights (talk • contribs) 20:49, 16 March 2007

They're two completely different films. One of them isn't animated. Esn 20:56, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The visual style of the movie

Why not show an example in what way the graphic style of the film is inspired by Edward Hopper? The title may have changed, there is a new director and plot, and the dog have probably changed as well, but I still think the visual style has remained. Take a look here, here and here

From an article when Chris Sanders was still involved in the project:

Chicken Little & Beyond

"Stepping Into a Hopper Painting

What we discovered on this film is that traditional art is no less valid in 3D. The plan with American Dog is to try to achieve exactly what we did on Lilo & Stitch (with the backgrounds being so pervasive) and completely thwart what the computer wants to bring to the party. I love what it can do as far as characters… the sensibility; the subtlety of emotion is unbelievable. But my art director Paul Felix and I made the decision to make it look like it was painted. And the computer is much, much harder on that because it wants to straighten lines and it wants to lay things down in very solid planes. And Paul can draw a layout and you just want to live in it. It’s like the best of a Disney background could possibly offer, but when you put a grid over those layouts, they won’t line up — there’s a million things going on that don’t make sense to the computer, and that’s what we’re trying to deal with.

We went so far as to see how much we can take this before it breaks. We took our main character, Henry, who is completely CG — he’s as sharp as a tack and very round and covered with fur and looks very, very real — and place him right in the middle of an Edward Hopper painting. So we scanned a suburban Hopper painting and had Henry walk right through it. And it is a painting… it is all implied dimension. What we found was it didn’t break. It did what I suspected, which is it lit up. The hard part is retaining that painterly softness when you move around the environment, whether it’s a diner or a car or a train station.

Paul is at the forefront of helping bring this into the computer, because he knows what makes a painting a painting; it’s not just how a brush stroke looks because we’ve gone way beyond that since Tarzan. It has to do with how light and paint interact with each other… that luminosity, the layering, which makes a huge difference. And the weird thing is, as long as you have good contact and a shadow that locks them in, you buy it.

Bambi, with its believability and suspense, continues to serve as 2D inspiration.

In terms of inspiration, Shrek and Ice Age were revelations in terms of the subtlety of emotion that they transmitted.

The way they lingered on Shrek’s face and not have him say or do anything made me want to stand up and cheer because you can’t do that in a traditionally-animated film. Or watching that little sloth in Ice Age struggling to get comfortable on that rock — slipping and sliding. At that moment, I knew that everything had changed. I realized that I have to change the way I write. I’ve indulged myself in scenes with protracted interaction, emotional interaction. We have the broad stuff too, but I’ve never felt so safe before in having a very subtle scene transpire between two characters sitting across the table from each other." 193.217.194.64 12:51, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] A question

Where can I find the trailer of this film? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.81.81.102 (talk) 22:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Bolt-firstlook-big1.jpg

Image:Bolt-firstlook-big1.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:14, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Bolt-firstlook-logo.jpg

Image:Bolt-firstlook-logo.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 04:15, 12 February 2008 (UTC)