On the floor of the dentist's office, there is a doll of Buzz Lightyear.
The manga that the boy waiting in the dental clinic read was "The Incredibles", which was advertised by Pixar for the upcoming "Superhumans".
The trucks from Pisa Planet in "Toy Story" and a car from "Cars" that hadn't been released at the time all passed by the door of the dentist's office.
Gill's facial styling draws on the facial features of his voice actor William Dafoe. The scar on Gill's face is the same as Tony Montana's in "Scarface" and the location of the scar in "The Lion King".
The phrase "Here's Brucey!" that Shark Bruce shouted was derived from the famous line "Here's Johnny!" when Jack Nicholson broke the door with an axe in The Shining.
The waiting room of the dentist's office comes from a dental clinic located near the headquarters of Pixar, California.
The name Darla comes from Pixar producer Darla K. Anderson. It is said that the inspiration for the character came from her.
The scene of the seagull attack mimics Hitchcock's film "Bird", and Darla's music comes from Hitchcock's "Mentally Ill."
"Finding Nemo" is Pixar's first Oscar for best animated feature film.
"Finding Nemo" is Pixar's first "seeing blood" movie, from Dolly's nose.
"Finding Nemo" was initially prepared in 1997 and was put into production in 2000, with a production team of more than 180 people.
When making the jellyfish scene in "Finding Nemo", Pixar's animator specializing in the ocean part created a new shading method called transblurrency. The picture produced by this method is transparent but blurry, like a frozen bathroom glass. There are 74,472 jellyfish in the entire jellyfish area in the film, and there are more than 8,000 jellyfish in each shot.
In the background of the sea turtle migration in "Finding Nemo", there are a total of 200 sea turtles. Although the movie does not say where they will swim, the DVD version revealed that their destination is Hawaii.
In "Finding Nemo", Dolly was only called Nemo seven times, four of which Dolly was originally called the wrong name and then changed. However, due to forgetfulness, Dolly changed a bunch of names to Nemo, namely: Chico, Fabio, Bingo, Harpo, and Elmo.
There are 24 frames in one second of the movie, and it takes 4 days to render one frame in the production of "Finding Nemo" because the underwater environment, underwater light and fish are all too complicated to present.
The great white shark in "Finding Nemo" is called Bruce. Bruce was originally the nickname of the shark model in "Jaws". The name was still named by Steven Spielberg after his lawyer Bruce M. Ramer.
When the creators designed Marin and Dolly, they planned to make the two characters have opposite personalities, and their colors, orange and blue, were just the opposite.
Dolly suffers from short-term memory loss, which comes from the creator's ridicule of the widely misinformed "goldfish only has three seconds of memory".
In Latin, Nemo means unknown soldier, and this name also pays tribute to Captain Nemo in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Miles Under the Sea.
The names of the two turtles-Crush and Squirt, are the two most popular orange soda brands in the United States.
The animals in the "Finding Nemo" series have accents from various places. For example, the lobster in the first part has a Boston accent, because one of the animators responsible for the production of the film is from Massachusetts, so letting the small characters in the film use the accent of their hometown is also considered the main creative Enjoy the small benefits.
Director Andrew Stanton voiced the turtle Crush in both "Finding Nemo". Stanton originally didn't want to use his own voice in the final film, but just wanted to play with it during the first cut. However, the dubbing was very popular during the audition, so Stanton decided to continue to use his own voice. Later, he finished dubbing the turtle by lying on the sofa in his office.
Nicholas Bird, the son of Brad Bird, is the voice of Squirt, the son of Crush, the turtle in "Finding Nemo". Before Brad Bird showed everyone his family DV in Pixar's office, and Andrew Stanton caught the voice of Bird's son.
The daddy William H. Messi in "Shameless" was originally designated as the voice of Marin. He also recorded all the lines and dialogues in the first part, but in the end he was replaced by Albert Brooks.
Pixar animator Glenn McQueen died during the production of "Finding Nemo". To commemorate him, Pixar used McQueen as the name of the protagonist in "Cars".
The key to the success of "Finding Nemo" lies in the intuitive feeling that the underwater world gives the audience. In order to ensure the realism, the creators often visit the aquarium and go diving in Monterey and Hawaii. There is a 25-gallon aquarium in Pixar. The animators often meet in front of the aquarium to study various fishes, and they are also arranged to learn a lot of ichthyology.
In order to prepare for the set of shots where Marin and Dolly were trapped in a whale, Robin Cooper, the art director in charge of shadow effects, and Bert Bailey, the artist, climbed into one that was stranded and died in northern Marin County. Body of a gray whale. The staff dissected the carcass of the dead whale to study its structure-muscles, heart, lungs, fins, liver and so on.
When making "Finding Nemo", the creators had already produced a particularly realistic and lifelike picture of the ocean surface, but because they were afraid that the audience would think they used a physical lens, the team had to make the picture fake.
When creating "Under the Sea", the animators learned the expressions of the dog, observed the changes in the dog's eyes, and then applied these movements and reactions to the fish.
In the name of "research", John Lasseter insisted on letting the creators of "Under the Sea" take the diving certificate and let them go diving in the Great Barrier Reef.
The computer program that shows the animation of the waves in "Finding Nemo" was used to make Sully's hair in "Monsters Electric Company".
"Finding Nemo" was initially considered by the former Disney CEO to be a failed movie. According to a book by James Stewart called "The Battle of Disney", after watching the first cut version dubbed by Messi, then Disney CEO Michael Eisner told the board members in private that the movie I will definitely hit the street: "The movie is good, but it can’t compare to Pixar’s previous movies. Of course they think this movie is great, but believe me, it’s not good at all." Later director Andrew Stanton asked Albert Brooks re-dubbed, and after the film was released, it received the best evaluation in the history of Pixar Animation, and it also became the highest-grossing animated film in film history at that time.
As soon as "Finding Nemo" was released, local tropical fish in the United States began to fall short of demand. The most in demand were the species of the two protagonists in the film-clownfish and blue hanging fish. But like the child Darla in the film, many pet novices don't know how to take care of these pet fish, so many of them end up raising the fish to death. It was finally discovered that tropical fish growing in salt water need at least 30 gallons of aquariums, and strictly control the salinity of the water, otherwise it will cause the fish to die.
In order to prevent children from learning how to escape from the sewer in "Finding Nemo", several sewer maintenance agencies in the United States jointly issued a warning asking children not to wash pet fish from the sewer, although the sewers eventually lead to the sea. , But the strong water flow in the pipeline and some plants growing inside are likely to crush the fish.
After "Finding Nemo" was released, a French children's book writer sued the film for copyright infringement. The author named Franck Le Calvez published a book about a year before the film was released, about a clown fish who went through a lot of hard work to find his unfamiliar mother. In fact, this story was originally written by Calvez in 1995, but no one was interested in the concept of the story so it has not been sold. After "Finding Nemo" was released, Calvez sued Pixar for infringement of the copyright of the story, but in the end he lost the case twice and was required to pay $80,000 in damage and court fees.
