'Elemental' trivia and fun facts
Homage
A character in the film is named Ghibli, after renowned Japanese animation studio Ghibli.
Inspired by true events
The film is based on director Peter Sohn's life with his parents immigrating to the USA from Korea - not speaking a word of English and settling into the Bronx. Sohn's family also opened up a grocery store names Sohn's Fruits and Vegetables - similar to Ember's family in the film.
No humans
The first Pixar film since the Cars franchise to not feature any humans. This film only has elements.
'Carl's Date'
'Carl's Date' is going to play before the movie, this will be the first time in 5 years that a Pixar short is played before the film after 'The Incredibles 2'.
YouTube tours
Rather than visit countries for research, the team spent many hours watching POV city tours on YouTube like Venice and Amsterdam for inspiration.
Biggest effort
Pixar had to upgrade and buy more computers for Elemental. There is over 151,000 cores in use for this film in three large rooms on the Pixar campus. For perspective Toy Story (1995) had 294 cores, Monsters, Inc (2001) had 672 cores, and Finding Nemo (2003) had 923 cores. This is a massive amount of computing power.
Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman's first Pixar film not to be directed by Andrew Stanton.