New Book: The Color of Pixar

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New Book: The Color of Pixar
// Gurney Journey

A new visual book called The Color of Pixar by long-time Pixar artist Tia Kratter presents color schemes used in the Pixar movies.

The book presents hundreds of stills taken from all the Pixar films so far, including Cars 3 and the upcoming Coco. The stills are chosen for their predominant hue, and arranged by color. 

As you flip through the book, you proceed through the rainbow, making it easy to compare related color schemes that appear on adjacent pages.

Each image is presented singly, surrounded by a full-bleed colored border. The captions tell you the movie that the still came from, but there's no text explaining why the sequence was rendered in that color scheme. 

It's really a purely visual book that will appeal to artists looking for inspiration on color choices. It might also appeal to teachers who want to explore the subject of color with students.

Kratter says: "Color doesn't just make things beautiful—it makes things emotional."

The book invites speculation about how Pixar uses warm, glowing colors to evoke happiness, and dull, cool blues to suggest sadness, or green-grays to convey fear or alienation.

Sample page from The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts

If you're more interested in how color is used to enhance the particular story arc of each film, another fascinating book is The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts, which presents each of the films in terms of the color thumbnail plan called the color script.

Throughout Pixar's history, these color scripts evolved from little pastel studies to a digital plan that expresses not only the color schemes, but also the shape language of each sequence.
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Books
The Color of Pixar by Tia Kratter, currently $20.36 on Amazon.
The Art of Pixar: The Complete Color Scripts, currently $28.49 on Amazon.

Previously on GurneyJourney
Pixar supercut arranged by color (video)
Resource for movie screenshots (website)


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