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“WALL•E” producer Jim Morris invited Roger Deakins and Dennis Muren to advise on lighting and atmosphere: Director Andrew Stanton and his WALL•E team kept asking and referring to Deakins for his vision on how the first act of the film could feel live-action. Of course going to Deakins for advice meant that the animators were looking for ways to manipulate the light. His imprint on the films dialogue-free first 20 minutes is there, the visual aesthetic takes your breath away as the use of different colours and schemes proves just how powerfully visual an animated can be.

“The real world, the natural world that we live in just isn’t as well-lit as your typical animated world is. There are shadows here. Areas in half-light over there. And if you can take that into account as you’re planning your camera movements on a CG production, make those sorts of necessary adjustments to light levels as you’re composing your shots, you’ll then wind up with scenes that look much more naturalistic when they’re up there on the big screen.” And while Deakins is quick to play down whatever small role he played in WALL•E’s eventual enormous box office success, “Seriously. I only consulted on a few shots for the first 20 minutes of that film.”

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Dante’s Lunch (2017), dir. Lee Unkrich

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You’re wrong, Hopper. Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers. I’ve seen these ants do great things, and year after year they somehow manage to pick food for themselves and you.

So who is the weaker species? Ants don’t serve grasshoppers! It’s you who need us! We’re a lot stronger than you say we are…

And you know it, don’t you?

A Bug’s Life (1998), dir. John Lasseter