Out of the 1800 shots created for “Cars”, Vickery worked on the lighting for about 70 of them. His job is to help create the lighting and shading for shots after they have been created and composed by the other departments. Vickery’s work is done specifically with the Lighting Department, which consisted of 30 to 35 people for “Cars”. Each one is built from scratch and is 100 percent original. What is also amazing is that as real as the pictures look, none of them are processed from photographs. Vickery states that every scene is also storyboarded, and for “Cars” approximately 47,000 storyboards were created in the production process. This makes sense considering that “Cars”, for example, has approximately 1800 shots for the film-which is well over the average 400 to 1000 for a typical feature. Each movie Pixar produces takes an average of four years to complete. Vickery states that there are about 800 people who work for the company and that there is a real team environment when working on these projects. His intention was to say something from the heart.”īuilding upon this initial inspiration requires help from everyone at Pixar. For “Cars”, John Lasseter had taken a road trip with his family when he got the idea for the script. “ “Finding Nemo” was about spending time with your kids-but also needing to let them live.
What motivates them to make such good movies? Vickery states that their desire is to write movies that speak from the heart about the issues of life. He also shares a bit about his involvement with foreign missions, as well as Pixar’s upcoming film “Ratatouille”.Ĭurious about the consistently clean content of Pixar films, I asked Vickery what it was that inspires the creators of these movies (i.e., “ Toy Story” I and “ II, “ A Bug’s Life,” “ Finding Nemo”) to produce this kind of uplifting entertainment. Vickery tells a little about what inspires those at Pixar to produce such wholesome entertainment as well as the great lengths they go to in order to create something so refreshingly original. On the Internet Movie Database (IMDB), he is referred to as a “Digital Artist” for the Pixar animation “ Cars,” but fellow follower of Christ, Jeremy Vickery is technically a “Lighting Artist”-the same title he is credited with on the wildly successful Pixar animation “The Incredibles”. Interview with Pixar employee, Jeremy Vickery, a fellow believer in Christ and an artist for Disney’s “Cars” (2006)
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