Why Disney and Pixar’s Elemental is their Most Ambitious Movie to Date

Director and Co-Writer Peter Sohn and Director of Photography Jean-Claude Kalache join us this week to discuss Pixar’s famously demanding story development process, why this film took years just to get to an outline, how this film deals with some much more grown-up themes than the typical Pixar fare, and the unique challenges of animating two lead characters made up entirely of either a glowing, iridescent flame or a blob of translucent liquid.