The Good Dinosaur landscapes are amazing (no dinosaurs)

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The movie is worth watching for amazing visuals alone.

I read a review somewhere that called The Good Dinosaur a tech demo that Pixar decided to release as a movie.

One of the animators visited my school last year, and paused at this http://i.imgur.com/2ziRc2y.png during the trailer. It was a 1.5 second cutscene of just the tree branches...."This was a concept shot that took us about a total of 1000 hours to do"

The artists exploration of water especially was amazing. I just wonder why the dinosaur characters were so lopsided and uninspired though

I was okay with the style choice for the dinos. The kids seemed to like them and it gave them an approachable cartoon feel.

My wife and I were blown away by the non-dino visuals. They were really amazing.

The story was odd and the flow was a little jumpy. My 8 year old said it felt like she was watching a bunch of episodes of a series stitched together.

For anyone who doesn't understand why the dinosaur animation looks decades behind the scenes of nature shown in OP:

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/10/15/the-good-dinosaur-could-be-a-big-miss-or-a-big-hit

TL;DR: It was a conscious decision to make the dinosaurs look like they don't belong, to echo the whole premise of the movie (what if dinos didn't go extinct?)

Fuckin' T-Rex cattle herders galloping like they were riding horses... I fucking lost it. Best scene in the whole movie. And the crazy mountain man with all the pets.

Well shit, I guess I'm the only person who liked this movie.

I liked the film. It was simple, beautiful and pretty relaxing to watch. Plus that poor guy just had a shit time. Everything went wrong for him. Most cartoons kids have bumps and scrapes, but he kept falling off cliffs and waterfalls. It was almost sadistic.

My mom usually doesn't watch Pixar movies, but went with us as it was my son's first movie. When it was over, she asked me how much of the movie was made with computers.

It truely is a beautiful movie. The small filler/bumper shots of rain on leaves, etc and the closing credits just left me slack jawed. I always love seeing the small advancements they make and how that adds to future movies for Pixar. Fur, then wet fur, then Merida's hair. Light, then ambient light (glow into the dark Buzz), then the translucency of water in Nemo.

Watch Toy Story again and see where they started (or Tin Toy, etc.) and watch for their pushes per movie. I'd almost like to see a "remaster/re-render" of Toy Story 1 for an anniversary release. Don't go all Lucas on it, but just fresh paint/fur/light all around (and maybe fix that Buzz/car track loop hiccup ;)

All off their little advances make for some really cool big things.

Its a shame they spent so much effort in landscape visuals instead of dinosaur design or script for the matter. I love pixar movies, but boy was it a letdown.

Spoiler One of the most depressing movies i have seen. He fails his dad, he gets his dad killed, he fails his mom and gets swept away in the river. It just keeps getting more and more depressing

Underrated movie

The dinosaurs must be really good farmers, judging by some of the serious agriculture and all them plants all lined up.

It was a strange movie for me. The animation was probably the best I've seen yet, but the movie itself was oddly bland. It really didn't leave the impact that Pixar normally does. It's by no means bad, but it's not really amazing either.

The scenery was beautiful, the ending, not so much.

Tetons!!

Loathe this movie. Farming dinosaurs? A main character that denies his friend a chance to meet his family because his quest isn't done yet? One screen writer and what, like seven other additional writers? "The good dinosaur" like the good book. Praise Jesus. Nice visuals, reducing your children's intelligence plot. Did I mention farming dinosaurs?

Pretty sure the island in the middle of the river is the island from a bugs life. It looks the right shape and the trees are in the right place and look young and thin compared the old and thick trunks of a bugs life........ could be wrong though Pixar is known to do that kind of stuff.

The dinosaurs look pretty atrocious and the story is lame as hell though.

I seriously thought they were live action shots with crappy dinosaurs animated over it I was flabbergasted when I found out that it was animated.

Too bad about the rest of it (the dinosaurs).

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This movie was amazing. I actually like the discrepancy between the gorgeous landscapes and the weird cartoony dinosaurs.

I love how everyone complains about the character design being stupid while every review on IMDB is bitching on the fact that the movie was scary as fuck to kids.

I laughed so hard when the pterodactyls "saved" the cute fox. I also really liked the meth raptors. The best WTF moment was the hallucination part.

Plot and design? Well everybody commented on that, I agree with most. But I watched it after too many drinks and such with buddies, and it made it so much better. We were in complete awe at the landscapes and soundtrack too.

DrunkCried like a little bitch too at parts, and you know which ones. Toys Story 3 didn't even do that to me, yet the ugly dinos managed somehow

Looks like some insane skyrim mod.

Honestly the movie would be better if it were just an hour and a half a peaceful CGI backdrops and maybe some relaxing music.

I remember the big fuss everyone made about A Bug's Life. How revolutionary it was to have each blade of grass moving on its own.

Yeah life was simple back then. Back then when you heard a Pixar movie was coming out you knew it was going to be good... sigh

The artstyle to this movie is such a mess, like someone really pushed the boat out on the landscapes which are photoreal but then the characters look like absolute ass.

Gives it such a strange uncanny valley feel, like the opposite of the polar express

Definitely not my favorite Pixar movie ... hell, it's not even in the Top 5 for me, but worth watching for the scenery alone. Some of the most beautiful visuals I've ever seen in any movie.

I found it weird that the landscapes are so detailed, and the characters were so cartoony.

I fricken love this movie.

The scenery is so wonderful it's upsetting to see such talent be wasted on poorly thought out dinosaur designs. That's not to say I've watched it, but I've seen enough screenshots of the movie to tell that it isn't something I'd be interested in putting up with. Although, the screenshots in the link make me want to rethink that decision. Purely for the sake of the background art. I'd bet they would have received a LOT more revenue if they would have just put a little more effort into the actual dinosaurs.

I saw this movie with my daughter and I thought it was very cute, surely not as good as Toy Story, but really, what is? I think the dino's animation sucked though, seriously. Disney's Dinosaur looked lightyears ahead of this movie and it was almost two decades ago. edit, spellcheck is bollocks

It's honestly beyond me why such gifted animators opted for such a silly carroonish design for their dinosaurs. I mean jeez, the Land Before Time had better looking dinosaurs.

amazing visuals, unfortunately it was my least favorite pixar movie

Funny how a company known for mostly cartoony/stylistic CGI has better landscapes than most major FX houses.

anyone seen any high resolution version stills anywhere?

I thought this was part of the reason why the movie was....weird for some reason.... The background was hyper-realistic and the dinosaurs looked like happy meal toys...

I long to live in a naturally beautiful place.

I saw the first Pixar short- the one with the light- at a film festival in 1986. Luxo Jr. I really loved it and it always stuck with me. I thought of it every time I saw a similar desk light. I thought it was the best stop motion animation I'd ever seen. A light that had feelings! So cool.

Took me until 2005 to realize it was computer generated and the same as THAT Pixar. That took my breath away. I saw a glimpse of the future and had no clue. Those people are genius, so far ahead of their time.

So my sister and I just finished watching this movie.... The detail in the backgrounds were amazing ... At one point I even said I wanted to go swimming in there lol. But I couldn't get over how much it reminded me of The Lion King

I actually for the first time ever felt really let down by a Pixar film. I felt it was way too predictable, formulaic, and just plain lazy.

Thought the stoner triceratops had me lol'ing. The rest of it just left me with a weird empty feeling.

I also noticed that there was a LOT of full on killing and it was very brutal killing.. seemed out of place.

I actually watched this film yesterday, and i really enjoyed it, thought it was quite mature emotionally for a film aimed at children

It was worth seeing for the scenery alone.

The characters and story was bog standard but the scenery was BEAUTIFUL.

well, that was obviously made with Bryce 3D

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Somebody should repost this in /r/EarthPorn and see if anyone notices.

Those valleys are a tad.... Uncanny.

The plants are wrong for the dino era.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I have a theory that this movie was made with the sole purpose just to test the new software they have.

You know what else is amazing about this movie? The soundtrack! It's such an evocative score that makes it really feel like a classic Western. "Homestead" and "Run With the Herd" are my favorite selections that show how powerful the movie's soundtrack is.

The Good Dinosaur is an underrated movie. With its breathtaking landscapes, an iconic score, the clever Western motif, and a plot that doesn't pull any emotional punches, in my opinion the movie doesn't get enough credit.

Very cool, when is this film coming out?

This movie deserved a Best Cinematography nomination. If CG backgrounds of Life of Pi and Gravity could win, animated movies must count too!

I liked this movie more than anything Disney has released in the past 5 or 6 years.

Gorgeous movie with way more feels than I expected.

Totally not related, and I haven't seen the film yet. But I just asked a girl if she'd go see it with me tomorrow. Wish me luck.

EDIT: well boys, she says has Spanish homework and a basketball game. But she would love to reschedule. Looks like I'll be staying home and watching Bob's Burgers instead. Maybe I'll order some pizza.

I can't wait till games look this good. That might be 30 years from now though...

If I had no idea what the film was about and you showed me those images I would assume it was another wild Terrence Malick film haha.

Those landscapes in TGD make me want to reedit the trailer in the fashion of The Revenant.

Drop dead gorgeous film. Highly recommended for visuals alone.

Real world seems boring now. T_T

I havent seen the film but why are there yaks/bison things in the dinosaur era?

THANK YOU. Ive been wanting to show off this movie to everyone who didn't get a chance to see it and its just a gorgeous movie, even though the plot was mostly blah.

Reminded me of the revenant for some reason

The landscapes were incredible with the production team paying very close attention to detail; the kind of stuff you don't necessarily notice, but would notice it's absence. I found this video clip very telling.

ETA- I don't see why all the hate on the story. It is a movie that is meant to be viewed by children so they're not going to give you some overly complex plot that kids are going to be asking "why did he..." "what does this..." every five minutes. Even with that, they manage to tell a pretty good story albeit very sad. I teared up more than once, and if a cartoon can make a grown man cry, I'd say it was pretty effective.

Looks a lot like California.

What does the Good Dinosaur do? What makes him/her good?

Im a photographer and throughout the whole movie I was only looking at the shadows and sharpness of the grasses.

The story was a complete let down... but i couldn't take my eyes of it just to see the landscapes.

The dinosaurs look pretty atrocious and the flow was a snow physics demo.

Pretty but do not jibe with the character designs at ALL.

Absolutely stunning visually, but The Good Dinosaur was my least favorite Pixar movie ever. I didn't like the story, and there were some scenes that were so un-Pixar-like that it pulled me out of the movie.

It bothered me that there was so much inconsistency between the dinosaur designs and the buffalo and birds and shit.

I was genuinely unsure if they used real landscapes and added the CGI stuff later. I remember watching the trailer and getting enthralled by the quality of the dirt on the ground.

I went to see this film and honestly thought Pixar had shot real world locations and added CG models on top of those landscapes.

The dinosaurs really spoilt this movie!

Just watched this again after seeing this post. Manly tears were shed.

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THE DINOSAURS? SNIFFLE

God fucking dammit this movie had me crying 10 minutes in. Wtf Pixar this is a kids movie holy hell.

Unpopular opinion: I actually really enjoyed the film. It wasn't Pixar's best by a long shot, especially compared to Inside Out, but it was still enjoyable and better than some of the other stuff they'd put out as of late.

took little niece to watch it, ended up crying. I liked it, the movie was also beautiful

Ten years ago you could look at Pixar movies and dream about when video games would look like that. That gives me a crazy amped feeling about these images.

Late to tris thread so this will never be read, but I found the plot to be a bit insulting. The dinosaurs farming, humans living alongside, the accents all mid western red stater. It all struck me as being crudely creationist and going after that market.

I love Pixar. I love Dinosaurs. Somehow they still let me down.

Probably going to get a bit of hate for this. In my opinion, I really felt that the scenery and the very odd artistic choice for the dinosaurs were quite visually spectacular. But its seems that they spent too much of the budget on the visuals instead of a solid writing team. Not to the standard which I would have personally expected from pixar, but each to their own I suppose.

That's almost Crysis level.

Even better, a lot of it is inspired after real things. I think it was set in Wyoming. The mountains he heads for (three peaks) look almost like a range I can see from my parents house called sawtooth mountain. Many of the other settings look super wyomingy too

I don't have a particular interest in The Good Dinosaur, however seeing these shots, I just realised how much I'd enjoy a BBC/Planet Earth-like movie (complete with Attenborough) visualised by Pixar.

/r/EarthPorn

Why the movie looks blurish in the big screen? I just went to a shitty place or that's how it works? First time I saw it in 3D didn't notice. But I went to see it again no 3D and it was so blurish.

This is the only reason to watch this movie. The movie itself is not one of their best. I was surprisingly disappointed. It was like it was written by fans of Pixar rather than Pixar writers.

I'm hoping this is just a test run for them and their next movie will reclaim some of that Pixar magic.

The animation and scenery were gorgeous though.

The visuals of this movie made it worth it. The story felt oddly paced and not very well executed but I was also seeing this movie with friends so that might have devalued it a bit. Still a gorgeous movie and worth it for just the visuals alone.

The better cgi gets the more we forget that these "places" are made up from scratch.

...what if Firewatch looked like this?

Five thirty eight did a great podcast about this

Wish my life looked like this everyday

Pixar movie, or incredible backgrounds, you decide.

These look like basic screenshots from the movie, nothing special.

The water is amazingly done. And this is the hardest thing to CGI'ed.

That was EXACTLY what i was thinking while watching that movie, beautiful CGI. It almost looked real

These are like photos, but better.

As a huge Pixar fan TGD was a bit of a disappointment to me, but the artwork more than made up for it. I'm still trying to work out whether some of the introductory shots (such as in the 2nd/3rd images) were fully CG or reality, or some kind of composite mix of both..... Truly stunning.

The scenery looked so real that when the dinosaurs were on the screen it looked super fake. It's as if they used footage from a planet earth type series and just slapped cgi over it

Worst Pixar movie since Cars. And Cars at least sold a fuckload of merchandise. It's like they took a story about a cowboy kid getting lost in wild west and just turned the characters into dinosaurs and humans into dogs for some reason.

Summoners Rift in 10years.

I honestly thought it was better than Inside Out, despite the uninspired design of the dinosaurs themselves. It had a shit ton of heart.

Godly awful movie tho

It is amazing how much Pixar has progressed since Toy Story.

Man, this makes me want to see a Pikmin movie.

Yeah, while watching this my friend and I couldn't help but say aloud "At this point, Pixar is just bragging about its background CGI tech."

It's a shame that the same amount of talent and effort wasn't put into the script .....

I found the landscapes jarring with the rest of the movie's aesthetic. One of the many reasons I didn't like the movie.

Welp, looks like I've found my wallpapers for the next 10 years

Who else came here expecting scenery from the Dinosaur old movie from Disney... :(

This is also beautiful though.

You looked at the stars

Weirdly enough this movie really felt short on everything except for the stunning visuals that really were life like...

• Short situations
• Short emotions
• Short character development

This movie should have been a 15min short.

great stuff! just saw the movie, and it's something i want my kid to see. it also made my gf cry.

Pitty it's all ruined by the terrible looking dinosaurs

Watched it last night. Great visuals. But the story was lacking in some way. I especially thought the ending was too quick. "returns, sets his mark, fade to credits" Not pixars best, it is somewhere around a bugs life and monsters university.

I wonder what country that would be today.

Pic#2, Beartooth Butte, WY/MT.

Why the fuck are you discriminating against Dinosaurs? MLK didn't die for this shit.

anyone spot the pizza planet truck?

Did you know there was no grass when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

I remember seeing this and very distinctly remember thinking, "I thought this was animated?" during the opening shots. Absolutely incredible work.

I envy the artists who worked on these.
Oh how I envy them.

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What did you all think of the good dinosaur?

I liked the movie. The landscape was so realistic that the dinosaurs themselves felt out of place. I wondered if there is ever going to be a movie like 'dinosaur' again. That was for me the ultimate dinosaur based movie with a good mix between visual and story. Especially with the computer power we have now compared to back when it was released (in 2003 or something)... I just wish some director took a shot at it.

Man, i cannot wait until the average game looks this good

I need those trees in my games. They look so nice.

Stunning!! Reallly really beautiful.

Why can't video games look like this yet?

It was a pretty good movie but enjoyed the cg here more than avatar

this movie was a visual orgasm too bad the character design was so mediocre :/

What the fuck was up with the quasi-triceratops scene, with all his little creatures?

My wife looked at me after that scene was over, and said "Well, that was weird".

(No dinosaurs)

Just like the movie

I fucking loved this movie!

It cracks me up when people act like Pixar dropped the ball by making the dinosaurs cartoony. Like some how they ran out of time making the scenery so they cut corners on the dino designs. It was a stylistic choice. It was on purpose. You don't have to like it but don't act like it was laziness. Nature is that antagonist in the movie and they wanted it to look photorealistic. They wanted to make chracters like Arlo child-like. I really enjoyed the movie. In no way was it one I would rewatch for years to come like Toy Story but it had a good (though rehashed story) that was entertaining.

Eighth down is awesome. Cloud shadows show dinosaurs.

I actually just watched this the other day and the whole time I was thinking how fantastic the animation was, especially the water animations.

As much as I wanted to like the movie, I just couldn't seem to bond with the characters/story very well. I loved the gorgeous scenery/visuals though. I can't quite describe what didn't work for me.

Technically, the movie's a stunner. Some interesting facts:

• One scene of Good Dinosaur is composed of as much data as the entirety of Cars 2.

• The majority of the USGS and Google Earth data focused on translating Wyoming's Grand Tetons to screen.

• 64,000 total miles of American landscape were translated to screen

• More backgrounds than any Pixar movie before are actual geometry rather than matte paintings.

It was a great flick, but such a rip off of The Land Before Time

too bad the film is one of the worst things (IMO) that studio has ever released.

I want this terrain in Minecraft now.

btw. I am 12 years old.

I think the dinosaurs were made to be toys, simple and easy to push out. They can make better dinosaurs without getting too serious just look at Rex from Toy Story.

These are great, especially the ones with water. Really makes me want to go watch this movie, even if just for the animation

Has better graphics than real life...

I mean what do you expect when you have control over every little leaf and piece of rock? Which actually makes compositions look too forced some of the time.

The dinosaurs looked so cartoony, which is obvious considering its Pixar, that they really stood out and clashed with the realistic look of the animated world. It kinda didn't fit together and kept me distracted through most of the movie.

Pixar Universe MMO please.

Beautiful CGI! It's a shame the dinos were so dorky-looking and the plot was so bad.

The grande Tetons and Yellowstone are amazing

Anyone complaining about the contrast between the realistic backdrops and cartoon characters needs to realize that's something Disney has been doing since Snow White. Gorgeous backdrops, with cartoon characters. Check out Sleeping Beauty -- this is over 20 years after Snow White, and really brings the point home, truly a pop art masterpiece. And that's what Pixar is doing, I suppose it could be labeled as pop art in a sense.

So what Skyrim mod is this?

Did anyone else think this movie fucking sucked?

This film was just trope after trope

What is the job that creates these scenes? Animators? Computer scientists? Did they go to school, and if so in what?

I took a 70 year old man on the edge of senility to see this movie. He loved it, but we got into an argument as to whether or not the dinosaurs were inserted into real footage. To prove that they were, he got out some National Geographic magazines and pointed at the photos. I gave up after a few minutes of this, but damn they made realistic landscapes.

Well of course. They have to make their Young-Earth propaganda look pretty.

Well those are going to have Dreamworks running for their money.

These look incredible! Haven't seen the movie but was wondering, did Pixar leave any clues for their next film like they're known for doing?

i still hate the way that fucking dinosaur looks though

Too bad the movie itself was fucking awful.

All the scenery compositions fit in a few consistently repeated categores - based around diagonals from corner to corner of the screen. It starts with a lot of one of those diagonals and then switches to the other direction. Then we get lots of center horizontal compositions, and then a set with jagged teeth, and other various patterns. The effect that causes is really interesting!

Should i watch the movie? It looks beautiful, but i wasn't sure if story held up as well.

I was so let down when I saw the dinosaur models. All of the enthusiasm the trailer had built up died as soon as I saw how cartoony they looked. It totally took me out of the world they'd created, that was a terrible design choice.

Eventually graphics will get good enough that someone will finally create a world that is sufficiently realistic such that no one else will ever have to create one again. Everything will be placed in that world.

15, when it starts to rain, was one of my absolute favorite shots in the movie. It was done so beautifully.

Too bad the dinosaurs wrecked this movie. Character design in this one was just awful and ruined it for me IMHO.

I just saw this movie. It felt like an animation showcase more than a movie.

Cool

Underrated movie

I'm more of a Land Before Time child. Saw it in the theater. Not ashamed to admit I cried. Multiple times.

I love how you can't pinpoint the exact locations, but any American would automatically recognize the world as modeled after America. The sunset seen through the wheat grass especially has that American Midwest feel to it.

Beautiful renderings, it's a shame the same effort wasn't put into the story.

I stayed through the end credits just for the scenes like this.

My kids liked the movie. I didn't like it so much, which is sad because I have a lithograph of every Pixar movie in my office. I did, however, love the visuals. I will watch it again just for the sheer perfection of the landscapes.

I was so excited for this movie. I was a total dinosaur nut as a child (I'm 36 now), and I love Pixar so much.

But this movie was just terrible. The script felt like something they whipped together over a lunch meeting, and then someone got a 5 year old drunk so they could design the characters.

still it was huge let down

The visuals for this movie were so good that I felt like it would have improved the entire movie if there was no dialogue. Tell the entire film through the actions of the characters. I think they could pull it off.

In pic 21, we see a familiar face of the moon, is it safe to assume the moon was tidally locked hundreds of millions of years ago?

I've heard the storyline isn't that great but this might make me reconsider not watching the movie!

I'm actually really hype now I thought the landscapes would be basic af like the dinosaurs.

Watching this in the theater was the best animation demo I've ever seen.

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i want to live here. hnnngggg

I watched this movie this weekend. The landscape is absolutely fantastic. The story definitely has it's Disney influence (as opposed to pure Pixar), but the setting in the film was absolutely jaw-dropping. "Magical" might be the best way to describe it. Pre-historic magic.

How are all those trees lined up like that? I thought this took place in prehistoric times?

Is literally every shot in this movie a landscape? I mean damn that's a lot of scenery. From what I've seen of the characters, they don't really fit with that pseudo-real style.

Man, in a few years VR experiences will look just like that. The end of mankind :-)

the technology behind this movie is mindblowing. it makes me excited for finding dory.

Thank you for posting this magnificent slideshow. It was like going to the American Museum of Natural History and a gallery-show of N.C. Wyeth or Maxfield Parrish.

Wow!

WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THE DINOSAURS? SNIFFLE

The end credits shows just gorgeous postmodern screensaver scenery and no dinosaurs too.

/r/imaginarylandscapes

Can we now get a synthetic benchmarking tool with this?

Can we now get a synthetic benchmarking tool with this?

Do the Revenant next. Those landscapes are beautiful

Some of it is photorealistic. Cant wait for 4k bluray.

It wasn't until the ninth picture that I realized I was looking a computer graphics. Props to Pixar.

I grew up there, in Wyoming. It's far too cold in the winter, now I live in a desert.

have seen better in almost every pixar film.

when i reached the sixth image i became confused as to why there are crops in a dinosaur movie.

Cannot wait until games can do this.

Earth is a character in itself in that movie

While watching this movie I was thinking wow Pixar is really showing how good they've gotten, remove the dinosaur from any shot and it was stunning.

I loved the scenery. But the dinos were unlikable, and looked so out of place against the photo realistic backgrounds...

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So much time and effort went into animating these, and what do you do? You just SCROLL on through eh?!

Haha :-) It's funny that the movie is about dinosaurs because Earth was so desolate when they were alive and now we have computers that can recreate their existence.

Looks like real photos and photography. Such gifted animators.

It was a strange movie for me. The animation was probably the best I've seen yet, but the movie itself was oddly bland. It really didn't leave the impact that Pixar normally does. It's by no means bad, but it's not really amazing either.

The realism of the scenery was incredible. A touching movie too.

Overall I thought the movie was pretty terrible, the only enjoyment I got out of it was the constant realization on how far CG has come in the last 20 years. Except for the characters they all looked like stuffed animals.

Does anyone else think the cloud in the middle right looks like the same one from toy story?

https://i.imgur.com/PVPHccz.jpg

http://i794.photobucket.com/albums/yy222/toystoryftw/TS3%20Chapter%201%20HD%20Screencaps/00139.jpg

Was anyone else kind of shocked to see a child character being expected to kill an animal by his father?

It was totally justified situation (they literally would have starved because of Spot eating their food), but it felt surprisingly real to me.

Much better without the weirdly animated out of place dinosaurs.

Watched it a second time just to make sure I actually did think it was a great film. And yep, its very good. Theres a lot of people who won't see it and call it terrible because of the cartoony Dinosaurs and then comparing the models to Disney's 2000 film Dinosaurs which in comparison look very dated. Also (thats not the kind of look they were going for)

If thats the only reason why you won't watch this film then I think you may over analyse it if you every do watch it. Its not a film about how the character models look. Its a film about fear.

Seriously its worth seeing, its not complex like Inside Out (not comply like hard to follow) But its still a great film. I actually preferred it to Inside Out and it may have been my favourite film of 2015. Its just a lovely film.

Dem feels when it draws a circle around them

You and your click bait can eat a dick!

I just saw this movie last night. I agree that the landscape visuals were nothing short of amazing - I had to look very hard for clues that the Dino's weren't composited onto stock footage. (Ok not that hard but it was really impressive). I'll echo the sentiment that it's not Pixar's best story line - maybe because we've seen it before and it feels rehashed and atypically morose for Pixar all the way through. You could perhaps try a plot line comparison against Up! and I'll bet they're pretty similar.

FiveThirtyEight's podcast What's The Point did an episode on how they used real geographical data to model the landscapes in The Good Dinosaur. I thought it was really interesting.

You can hear it here if you are interested: http://pca.st/WYWP

It's 28 minutes.

On pic 15, they even left in some chromatic aberration on the bokeh, a color-distortion effect caused by a physical lens not being able to focus all colors on one convergence point.

I thought they were photographs.

My kids are gonna have some good looking video games (no kids yet).

So if I wanted to have one of these as a print to hang on my wall, what would I need to do?

Well why the fuck do you call it the "Good Dinosaur Landscapes" if there aren't any ducking dinosaurs?! That seems intentionally misleading.

Why was there a corn field?

This is what I liked.

What is the best way to have one of these printed for large wall art?

This movie reminded me alot of Yellowstone. F.ex Mammoth hot springs and then Grand Teton being the Clawtooth Mountain. But ye, the visuals is crazy good!

Imagine virtual reality environments like this 20, 25 years from now. That would be incredible, but kind of scary at the same time.

dem establishing shots tho

Where can I buy it on DVD or Blue-Ray?

It's a great movie for young kids. Too bad adults aren't smart enough to get the point.

My three year old nephew got the point, and cried at just the appropriate moment.

Not every movie has to have adult content or fart jokes. This one is just sweet.

So don't watch or watch?

Some of these images look absolutely photo realistic, but most of them look just slightly unnatural, and I can't figure out why. They're almost perfect, but there's just something that still says its CG. Is it the lighting? Are the colors too saturated? Are some of the models too perfect? As an artist, I'd really like to know!

Some of it is photorealistic. Cant wait for 4k bluray.

Honestly the movie would be better if it were just an hour and a half a peaceful CGI backdrops and maybe some relaxing music.

Movie was so boring. Nothing happened. Pixar should shut down.

I saw this movie with my disabled clients and planned on falling asleep, but was actually just in awe of the amazing landscapes that looked exactly like the wilderness I have explored in utah my whole life.

Underrated movie

Almost as if it they were made for a completely different movie.....which they actually were.