• Slash Film has the first image from the 2011 Reign of Dinosaurs TV special on the Discovery Channel. As you recall, Pixar did some work on the film (but it’s not a Pixar production). Pixarian Ronnie del Carmen (Dug’s Special Mission) will be at Comic Con to discuss. More details to come.
  • Rumor: Movieline is reporting that Pixar is looking at Cars spinoff for direct to DVD entitled Planes. To be honest this sounds like an April Fools joke (in July) to me. I just can’t wrap my head around Pixar doing this in any capacity. Take this story with a huge grain of salt at this point…
  • In “we knew it was inevitable” news,Pixar’s 3D Supervisor Bob Whitehill mentions in this video interview with Hey u Guys! (from the Blogger Event in April) that they are looking at Ratatouille (and other Pixar films) for a 3D conversion. This really isn’t a surprise with the advent of the 3D explosion at theaters, along with the push for 3D at home. I think you know my opinion on 3D so far umm…next story.
  • Entertainment Weekly spills the beans on some re-shoots and story edits for Disney’s upcoming Tron Legacy. It seems that Pixar’s Brain Trust (namely Toy Story 3 scribe Michael Arndt and director Brad Bird) was shown an early cut and helped craft the script for the re-shoots. I’m excited for the Tron sequel/reboot and this sounds like good news to me.
  • Don’t miss this hour long uStream video interview with Pixarian Aaron Hartline.
  • Kyle Lambert made a very cool iPad finger painting for Toy Story 3. Check it out here.
  • Have you seen the Toy Story 3 Peugeot TV ad? This was worked on by many of the animators over at the studio. Check it out.

I’m on vacation in Hawaii for the next week, so news might be a bit slow getting posted. I will try and keep up to date via Twitter and will post any burning stories here when possible. Thanks!

Please share your thoughts on the rumors around the Cars spin-off Planes, more 3D conversions, Reign of Dinosaurs or any of the Pixar Bytes today.

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