Finding Nemo
Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas

More Information: After much adventure, neurotic Marlin - along with the friendly-but-forgetful blut tang name Dory - is helped in his search for his lost clown fish son Nemo by a laid-back sea turtle Crush and his son Squirt. Going with the flow of the turtle drive in the fast-paced East Australian Current, Marlin finds the he not only learns the way to Sydney from the 150 year old sea turtle but also discovers something about the joys of life as a parent along the way.

This limited-edition gicleé print depicts an interpretation of a sequence from Disney/Pixar's Finding Nemo (2003). Executive producer John Lasseter considered the film - created entirely by artists using computer tools and technology - a splashy showcase for Pixar's medium. "Technically, we pushed things beyond anything Pixar has done before," Lasseter said. "Just animating fish was difficult, but out technological team has created an underwater environment that is beautiful and graceful. The real underwater world is so spectacular that it's already a fantasy world. Our challenge was to let the audience know that our ocean is caricatured. We wanted them to know that this wonderful world doesn't exist, but then using the amazing tools that we have in computer animation make it look totally believable. Our goal is always to make things believable, not realistic. By analyzing the design of things, adding more geometry and pushing the colors, we were able to create a credible world for our characters."

Finding Nemo is written and directed by Academy Award nominee Andrew Stanton, who served as co-director of Disney/Pixar's hit A Bug's Life (1998) and who also if the voice of the surfer dude turtle known as Crush, one of the film's most popular characters. Originally, Crush was intended to be an aging hippy character, but he evolved into an ageless source of timeless wisdom. As a surfer who in essence uses his shell as a built-in surfboard, Crush comes into the film late in the proceedinds to give Marlin insight into parenting that finally allows the overprotective clown fish to understand not only his limitations as a father but the way he is missing out on life. To emphasize the fun feeling of Crush's son Squirt and the rest of the young turtles, shader art director Robin Cooper explains, "Andrew wanted the turtle kids' shells to look like Hawaiian shirts. I picked three basic patterns: one was like several flowers, another design featured one big flower, and then there was the tie-dyed look. It's hard to find a balance, because so much underwater stuff doesn't look real, it's so intense. A lot of turtle shells have a paisley look that's so stylized, so designed, that it's strange!"

This limited-edition artwork is available in paper and canvas versions. The fine art printing process of color reproduction known as gicleé was used to create this scene. Using digital files from Pixar, a first-generation "print" is created from a digital source - the same way the digital source is used to output to motion picture film. In this process, the image from a computer-based digital file is printed by spraying millions of pixel-sized drops of ink per second onto premium-quality, acid-free paper and canvas with an enhanced printer, specially modified for art reproduction.

In addition, the paper edition has a printed remarque of the original storyboard sketch that was used to create this moment from this "most excellent" fish tale with bite included, along with the official Finding Nemo logo.