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Apple helps Pixar out with WALL?E

I'm a big fan of almost everything Pixar does (Cars wasn't their best effort, though it was enjoyable), so it is a happy day when a story that links Pixar to my favorite computer company comes along.

It would seem that the good folks at Pixar really wanted to play up the differences between the titular hero of Wall*E and a new robot that appears (Eve, pictured to the right). They wanted it to look very cool, and very high tech. Luckily for Pixar, they know a guy pretty high up in Apple who was able to get Jonathan Ive, Apple's famed product designer, to help out with Eve's look.

I wonder if Eve's battery is user replaceable.

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I'm a big fan of almost everything Pixar does (Cars wasn't their best effort, though it was enjoyable), so it is a happy day when a story...
 

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jayess

Upper part of Eve's torso looks like inversed back of an eMac. Don't you think that radial stripes below Eve's head are quite familiar ?

Have a look at Eve:
http://bitcast-a.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/images/walle-may8-6.jpg

...and the back an eMac:
http://lowendmac.com/imacs/emac/two-emacs.jpg

Of course Eve's body is made of the same shiny, white plastic like iMacs, eMacs and iPods.

July 16 2008 at 3:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Christopher Hollomon

Wow, you don't think cars was a good effort?
I rarely bust on someone's opinion, but I think your dead wrong, Cars is not only my favorite all pixar movie, it has shot up to my number one all-time movie. I think it is one of the most important movies of our age, I think it should be taught in schools and folks should understand the incredible significance and deepness of the movie. I'm not a fan of nascar by any stretch, but the fact that this country has lost it's soul in the hustle and bustle is so important. I think you missed the point of the movie if you think it missed it's mark. Maybe you should watch it again and listen to it this time.

May 14 2008 at 2:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bob

Pixar are NOW, almost entirely mac based (they still use linux as well (probably for the render farms), all of their software is inhouse though.

May 13 2008 at 10:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
billyadams

Is it just me, or is Jonny Ive really close to Johnny Five, which is really what Wall-E looks like?

http://tinyurl.com/2hzalj

May 13 2008 at 10:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
bob

I think they helped more by supplying all the computers the film was made on.

May 13 2008 at 8:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Paul

Actually, Pixar uses their own system. After Jobs bought the then division of LucasFilm, it was renamed Pixar and became a high-end computer hardware company (Disney was one of their best customers). They had trouble selling the pricey equipment and began making short films to demonstrate the ability of their Pixar Animation Computer (hardware) and RenderMan (software) products. The rest, as they say, is history.

May 13 2008 at 10:09 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul

That's not to say that they don't use any Apple hardware, they do, but it's not as ubiquitous as you might think.

May 13 2008 at 10:12 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kris

Pixar can do no wrong...

May 13 2008 at 12:29 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brian

I was pleasantly surprised by Cars. I hadn't liked recent Pixar movies much--Incredibles was so-so, didn't really like Monsters Inc. or Finding Nemo--but Cars was good. (Other than the story being a total ripoff of 1991's Doc Hollywod.) And yeah, Eve looks like a combination of Apple's Automator and Toy Story's Zurg.

May 12 2008 at 11:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
235711131719

No one seems to mention that Eve looks very similar to the Automator icon...

May 12 2008 at 10:59 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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235711131719

I guess I need glasses . . .

May 12 2008 at 11:01 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gareth

Is it just me or does eve look like the daughter of the automator icon.

May 12 2008 at 10:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
HineyWipe

Replaceable batteries? You're implying she's hot?

May 12 2008 at 8:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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