Just Keep Swimming: The Production of Finding Nemo.
By: Josh Stephen. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to The History and Production of Pixar Classics. Today, we're going to talk about the production of Finding Nemo. But before we dive straight into this, I'll give you some background information about the film in case you've never seen it before. Finding Nemo came to theaters in 2003, and is the fifth movie in PIXAR's catalogue. The movie is about two orange clownfish, a father, and a son, who get separated. The father, Marlin, embarks on an epic journey throughout the ocean to find his son, Nemo, with the help of a blue tang named Dory, played by Ellen DeGeneres, while Nemo learns how to overcome his fears without his father. The main challenges that the team faced was learning how to actually adapt the visuals of undersea life into their animation software, Renderman, and better adapting the full screenplay that writer/director Andrew Stanton had written. To adapt the visuals, the team had to lean less into the photo...