Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Toy Shining: The Toy Story/The Shining Mashup


UK Illustrator, Kyle Lambert, wanted to create a storyboard mash up of Toy Story and The Shining.  So, that's just what he did, calling it Toy Shining.
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.
Coincidently, 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.
Click on the image above for a closer look at the storyboard and if you want an even closer look of each panel, you can check them out at Kyle's site here.

Via: Boing Boing

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