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Stanley Kubrick on the set of A Clockwork Orange
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Toy Shining by Kyle Lambert.
Earlier this year I began following Lee Unkrich, the director of Toy Story 3) on Twitter (@leeunkrich). As well as his journey to the Oscars with Toy Story 3, Lee often tweets about his passion for Stanley Kubrick and the movie The Shining which inspired him to pursue a career in filmmaking. Having seen both The Shining and Toy Story 3 for the first time recently myself, I thought it would be cool idea to mash the two movies together as a fun side project.
It started off with a few notes on a post-it describing how the two movies could be combined and quickly grew into a 25 panel storyboard. Once I had sketched each composition I set about painting the panels with my iPad using the Brushes app. The project took around 2 months to complete in my spare time from idea to the finished storyboard.
Coincidentally, towards the end of the project I was invited to visit the Pixar Studio for the day by one of their artists Don Shank and thought it would be a great opportunity to deliver a printed version of the project to Lee in person. Unfortunatley he wasn’t at the studio that day, but has since recieved the poster, Tweeting.
“Toy Story/The Shining mash-up, painted on an iPad. Incredible gift from @kylelambert. So much awesomeness.”
Higher quality versions of each panel can be seen below as well as a video detailing the painting process on the iPad.
“A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.”
Happy birthday to perhaps the greatest film director of all time, Stanley Kubrick.
Talking with Tracie about the inherent value of various art forms tonight (tv vs. film, music vs. painting, etc.) and whenever I was talking about the artistic beauty of cinema, the example I kept coming back to time after time was 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s been a year since I watched it for the first time and while it’s not my favorite movie, it left me with a sense of awe and wonder that I’ve never gotten from anything else. It was beautiful, overwhelming yet delicate, and even now, I still can’t believe it even exists. The great irony in this conversation was that Tracie was stridently defending books and saying that films generally weren’t as literary and if I’m going to hail 2001 as film’s greatest achievement then she certainly has a point there.
I just know that if I don’t see 2001 on a big screen before I die, I will be supremely disappointed.
