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- Those were key questions faced by director Peter Sohn when he set forth to make Elemental. The Bronx-born animator previously helped anthropomorphize rats, robots, dolphins, and dinosaurs in Ratatouille, Finding Nemo, WALL•E, and The Little Dinosaur. But never before had he tried to put a human face on earth, air, fire, and water.
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Feb 26, 2024 · But never before had he tried to put a human face on earth, air, fire, and water. In directing his Oscar-nominated animated feature Elemental (now streaming on Disney +), Sohn created a fully enflamed hero fueled by the virtues and complexities expected from any big-screen protagonist.
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Jun 23, 2023 · An especially personal story for the director, it took seven years to make, and marks his second time directing (after 2015’s The Good Dinosaur, and two decades at Pixar). Both an immigrant story and a love story, it uses the elements (earth, fire, water, air) to represent race in a sprawling habitat called Elemental City.
Jun 16, 2023 · The studio, in the past, has made characters that are plastic or metal cars or humans with a subsurface scattering in the skin, but there was no path to create a character that was wholly an effect...
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Jun 22, 2023 · Filmmaker Peter Sohn’s parents both died during the production of Elemental, which very much informed the movie he made.
- Wenlei Ma
Feb 14, 2024 · Peter Sohn helped draw Wall-E’s eyes and Up’s talking dog, and put his decades of Pixar experience—and a very personal family story—into his first Oscar nominee, Elemental.
Nov 25, 2015 · At Pixar, Sohn quickly became a studio character — literally — his round, expressive face was inspiration for Russell, the overenthusiastic 8-year-old wilderness explorer in “Up.”
Peter Sohn (born October 18, 1977) is an American filmmaker, animator, storyboard artist, and voice actor. He is best known for directing the Pixar animated films The Good Dinosaur (2015) and Elemental (2023), the latter of which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
