{"id":6121,"date":"2009-07-18T00:07:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T23:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6121"},"modified":"2009-07-18T00:07:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T23:07:31","slug":"early-cgi-test-of-where-the-wild-things-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/07\/18\/early-cgi-test-of-where-the-wild-things-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Early CGI Test of Where The Wild Things Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maurice_Sendak\">Maurice Sendak<\/a>&#8216;s classic children&#8217;s book\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Where_the_Wild_Things_Are\">Where The Wild Things Are<\/a><\/strong> is soon to be released as <a href=\"http:\/\/wherethewildthingsare.warnerbros.com\/\">a live-action movie<\/a> directed by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spike_Jonze\">Spike Jonze<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0in 1983 a young animator at Disney shot this short piece of CGI test footage for a potential movie.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LvIDRoO8KnM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LvIDRoO8KnM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t work out as costs were too high and that young animator was unfortunately fired soon after.<\/p>\n<p>However, things worked out OK in the end because he then went on to help found <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pixar\">Pixar<\/a>, direct the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toy_Story\">Toy Story<\/a> movies and eventually <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Lasseter#Back_at_Disney\">go back to Disney in 2006<\/a> as the chief creative officer of the revamped <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walt_Disney_Animation_Studios\">Walt Disney Animation Studios<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His name?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2009\/02\/03\/interview-john-lasseter-on-bolt\/\">John Lasseter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early test footage for Disney&#8217;s 1983 version of &#8216;Where The Wild Things Are&#8217; by a famous animator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,16],"tags":[796],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}