Talk:Bolt (2008 film)

Claire Holt

Claire Holt does not voice Mittens, Susie Essman does. It states so on the Disney Bolt website.XxH2Oluverxx (talk) 21:30, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

The name

The only evidence that the name is "Hollywood Dog" is a blog article which mentions that it's one of the top contenders. I have no idea why the article was renamed - there has been no official word from what I can see. Esn 01:00, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Confirmed Name is Firehouse Dog

In canada, commercially spread name is Firehouse Dog — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crawfordknights (talk • contribs) 20:49, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

They're two completely different films. One of them isn't animated. Esn 20:56, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

The visual style of the movie

Why not show an example in what way the graphic style of the film is inspired by Edward Hopper? The title may have changed, there is a new director and plot, and the dog have probably changed as well, but I still think the visual style has remained. Take a look here, here and here

From an article when Chris Sanders was still involved in the project:

Chicken Little & Beyond

"Stepping Into a Hopper Painting

What we discovered on this film is that traditional art is no less valid in 3D. The plan with American Dog is to try to achieve exactly what we did on Lilo & Stitch (with the backgrounds being so pervasive) and completely thwart what the computer wants to bring to the party. I love what it can do as far as characters… the sensibility; the subtlety of emotion is unbelievable. But my art director Paul Felix and I made the decision to make it look like it was painted. And the computer is much, much harder on that because it wants to straighten lines and it wants to lay things down in very solid planes. And Paul can draw a layout and you just want to live in it. It’s like the best of a Disney background could possibly offer, but when you put a grid over those layouts, they won’t line up — there’s a million things going on that don’t make sense to the computer, and that’s what we’re trying to deal with.

We went so far as to see how much we can take this before it breaks. We took our main character, Henry, who is completely CG — he’s as sharp as a tack and very round and covered with fur and looks very, very real — and place him right in the middle of an Edward Hopper painting. So we scanned a suburban Hopper painting and had Henry walk right through it. And it is a painting… it is all implied dimension. What we found was it didn’t break. It did what I suspected, which is it lit up. The hard part is retaining that painterly softness when you move around the environment, whether it’s a diner or a car or a train station.

Paul is at the forefront of helping bring this into the computer, because he knows what makes a painting a painting; it’s not just how a brush stroke looks because we’ve gone way beyond that since Tarzan. It has to do with how light and paint interact with each other… that luminosity, the layering, which makes a huge difference. And the weird thing is, as long as you have good contact and a shadow that locks them in, you buy it.

Bambi, with its believability and suspense, continues to serve as 2D inspiration.

In terms of inspiration, Shrek and Ice Age were revelations in terms of the subtlety of emotion that they transmitted.

The way they lingered on Shrek’s face and not have him say or do anything made me want to stand up and cheer because you can’t do that in a traditionally-animated film. Or watching that little sloth in Ice Age struggling to get comfortable on that rock — slipping and sliding. At that moment, I knew that everything had changed. I realized that I have to change the way I write. I’ve indulged myself in scenes with protracted interaction, emotional interaction. We have the broad stuff too, but I’ve never felt so safe before in having a very subtle scene transpire between two characters sitting across the table from each other." 193.217.194.64 12:51, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

A question

Where can I find the trailer of this film? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.81.81.102 (talk) 22:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

On Youtube! Christianster 5:37, 15 Augudt 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:14, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

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Expanding/improving plot synopsis

In adding the plot synopsis, I've slightly adapted what appears on the Disney site, and while WP:FILMPLOT says plot descriptions are not usually needing to be cited, this seemed like one case where it should be. This solution seems less than ideal to me, but I've seen others add synopses from the studio before, so I figure this should do until the film is actually released. If there's any disagreement with this way of doing it, please let me know on my talk page. NMS Bill (talk) 12:23, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Made a few more tweaks to bring in line with the synopsis as it exists on the Disney website. NMS Bill (talk) 14:15, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Nick Swardson

He plays one of the pigeons so I put pigeon