A Bug's Life Commentary

A Bug's Life commentary with Director John Lasseter, Co-director/Co-writer Andrew Stanton, and Film editor Lee Unkrich.

Transcript

 * JOHN LASSETER: Hi, welcome to the audio commentary for A Bug's Life. I'm John Lasseter, the film's director.
 * ANDREW STANTON: I'm Andrew Stanton, the co-director and co-writer.
 * LEE UNKRICH: And I'm Lee Unkrich, I was the supervising film editor.
 * LASSETER: The first shot of A Bug's Life was very important to us because we wanted to take the audience from a world in which they knew that you know of a human world and take you down to that same world from a bugs point of view and we wanted to do it in one single shot. Now, you have to understand that in computer animation going from a certain level of complexity that of the human world all the way down to the bugs world was talk about complexity this was the most difficult shot of the film to do.
 * STANTON: I think we left this shot almost to the very end because we knew would take almost the entire production to do it.
 * LASSETER: Right. When we started the movie we really did not know how to do this shot because if you look at the complexity as you get into the grass placed and down into the clovers it, it is pretty remarkable to think about how far away you start and how close you actually get.
 * STANTON: In real life the world actually gets more complex when you get that close up and that kind of scared us but it was exciting.
 * LASSETER: This is all part of the research that we did in looking at the bug cam footage and seeing how. How interesting and beautiful a single grass place is or clover.