The Polar Express (2004) A Genuine Ticket To Ride

Neil Cariaga

A Special Feature from The Polar Express 2 Disc Wide-Screen Edition Disc 2 2005 DVD Australia

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00:00Hey you, do you know what kind of train this is?

00:08Hmm?

00:09Train, do you know what kind of train this is?

00:11Well do ya?

00:11It's a magic train.

00:13Tickets please, tickets.

00:15Well, you're coming.

00:17Magic carpet on the grill.

00:18Never take a breath.

00:20Oh, it's a surprise, it's a dream on the phone of the express.

00:23Too bad.

00:24Actually, it's a Baldwin-284S3 class virtual type clean locomotive.

00:27And you know what kind of movie this is?

00:30It's cutting edge and a combined performance capsule technology in a way that's never been done before.

00:34Aha, but do you know how they made the movie?

00:37Who are you anyway?

00:38Oh come on, you remember me.

00:40I was on the train with you.

00:41Wait, stop the picture.

00:43See, that's me.

00:44Yep, the one in the green pajamas.

00:46Okay, you can start again.

00:48Oh yeah, I remember you.

00:50This was a total dream job.

00:51I love movies.

00:53And the way they made this movie was, well, it's a little like creating magic.

00:56Tell the engineer to slow down.

00:59Well, maybe I'm moving too fast.

01:01Let's go back to the beginning.

01:03That is more like it.

01:05It all started with a book.

01:06A book filled with awesome paintings.

01:08If we were going to truly try to take Chris Van Alsberg's artwork and make it come to life,

01:13this was the undiscovered country that we were going to have to visit.

01:15And we were going to have to go and figure out a way in order to make this movie.

01:20How can we make Chris Van Alsberg painting come to life?

01:25And the idea of how to pull it off intrigued me.

01:29I brought the question to my long-time collaborator, Ken Ralston, over at Sony Imageworks,

01:35and said, is there any way that we can maybe pull this off in the world of digital rendered movies?

01:42Wait a minute.

01:43I totally know everything there is to know about digital rendering.

01:46You name it, I know it.

01:48But do you know about performance capturing?

01:49Yeah, yeah, I know what that is.

01:51That sounds familiar.

01:51It's what you can't perform it.

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