Pixar: The Lighting Design of Brave
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Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH is proud to present The Lighting Design of Brave, with Pixar’s Danielle Feinberg, Tuesday May 15th, at the Vancity Theatre.
The upcoming Disney-Pixar film “Brave” is set in the rugged and mysterious Highlands of ancient Scotland. A lush and complex setting was required to bring the adventurous story to life, and intense character work was done for the film’s courageous, curly red-haired heroine Merida, her family and supporting cast. Pixar’s lighting department faced the challenge of bringing these new technologies and higher complexity together, while also leveraging the lighting throughout the film to help guide the audience through the story in this mystical world. Learn more about the lighting process for “Brave” from the film’s Director of Photography-Lighting, Danielle Feinberg.
Doors at 6pm for an industry mixer (ticket holders only). The presentation will begin at 7pm, and will be followed by Q & A.
DATE: Tuesday May 15
VENUE: Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour (@Davie)
TICKETS:
This event is now sold out.
Rush tickets and overflow seating will be released on a first come, first serve basis at 6pm, at the Vancity Theatre, on Tuesday May 15th.
Non-members – $25
Members – $15
Group – $20 (5 or more) Please contact us for the group rate discount code.
Biography
Danielle Feinberg began her career at Pixar Animation Studios in February 1997, and in the 15 years since then, she has worked on nine of Pixar’s 13 feature films – “A Bug’s Life, “Toy Story 2,” “Monsters, Inc.” and the Academy Award®-winning “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles,” “Cars,” “Ratatouille,” and “WALL•E.” Feinberg most recently completed work as director of photography-lighting for Disney•Pixar’s upcoming summer feature “Brave,” scheduled for release on June 22, 2012.
At the age of 23, Feinberg’s first role at Pixar was as lead render technical director on “A Bug’s Life,” where she in charge of a team of nine people, eight of whom were older than herself. She quickly discovered her love for lighting because of the unique combination of technology and art.
Feinberg went on to work as a lighting artist on many of Pixar’s feature films, where she quickly moved up in the ranks – from master lighting artist on “Toy Story 2,” and “Monsters, Inc.” to lead lighting artist on the “The Incredibles.” On “Finding Nemo,” Feinberg took on the role of ocean unit CG supervisor, where she was responsible for the teams creating the scenes in the depths of the ocean, the field of pink jellyfish and the rollercoaster ride with the turtles.
For “WALL•E,” she returned to her passion of lighting as the director of photography-lighting. In that role she led a team of over 30 lighting artists to design and execute the photo-real “filmic” look envisioned by the film’s director.
Feinberg is once again in a lead creative role as director of photography-lighting for “Brave,” which stars Pixar’s first female protagonist.
A native of Boulder, Colorado, Feinberg’s love of combining computers and art began when she was eight years old, and first programmed a Logo turtle to create images. This eventually led her to a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science from Harvard University. Now, in addition to her Pixar work, she enjoys photographing the real world with its ornery, non-virtual light, and works with teenage girls, encouraging them to pursue math and science by demonstrating to them the same beautiful simplicity she found with the programmed art of the Logo turtle.
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