Check out this Pixar mosaic video promotion for Toy Story 3
It’s here! Toy Story 3 arrives in theaters today.
Pixar has created one of the most imaginative "trailers" for a movie that I’ve ever seen. It’s a series of animated mosaics of Toy Story 3 characters created from still images from Toy Story 1 and 2 (including credits). In total there are 16 mosaics created from 640,000 tiles. Each frame of the video took between 30 seconds and 16 minutes to render.
Notice while you’re watching that each mosaic image created by the tiles becomes a tile in a larger mosaic.
Disney/Pixar is also using an innovative Facebook page that lets you find showtimes for Toy Story 3 and coordinate with your friends to go see the movie together. When I visited the page, it automatically listed local theaters and showtimes. You then select a show and invite friends to join you. Very clever.
Crank your sound up, watch in full-screen and high-def if your system can handle it, and enjoy!