Clint and Lynette Hamblin and their two young kids have been living in the brand new UP house in Herriman, Utah for two months now. I was granted the great privilege to interview them in their home and take some photos. I'm putting the finishing touches on the article tonight for a Saturday debut tomorrow. Check back here tomorrow for an inside look into the lives of these dedicated Disney fans, their fun experiences in the new house and the latest UPdates on their struggle to keep the original pastel colors.

With the release of each Pixar film, discussion always seems to swing at some point to the technical animation challenges conquered by the latest film. With Monsters, Inc. it was fur, Finding Nemo it was water, The Incredibles had humans, Cars conquered ray tracing reflections, and WALL•E successfully replicated charming film and lens imperfections. As Brenda Chapman mentioned in my interview with her, with Brave, we're going to hear a lot about Merida's curly red hair.

With just under a hundred days to go to the release of the film, the discussion has begun. Jay Miller, a graduate of MIT, was interviewed on Physics Central's podcast about the extreme science and mathematics behind the realistic rendering and animation behind the wild red Scottish locks seen throughout the film. In a summary from io9, they list several of the real-world study subjects the computer scientists of Pixar examined including the flagella of an amoeba, the spiral of a double helix and a buckling steel pipeline.

Certainly Pixar has made incredible strides with hair in the past like the fur in Monsters, Inc. as mentioned before, The Incredibles, UP and others. But this is the first of their films to incorporate full heads of moppy, curly hair not only on Merida, but those of her younger triplet brothers as well.

As announced on their website today, the Edinburgh International Film festival will host the European premier of Brave. The film festival takes place this year between the 20th of June and the 1st of July, and Brave has been selected for the closing act on June 30th, the last night of the festival. Clearly some preference was given to the Scottish location, as the film itself is set in medieval Scotland.

Brave will be the most high-profile film ever set in, and themed around, Scotland, featuring Scottish stars . . . Never will Scotland receive so much global coverage in such a concentrated time span and never will Scots have had such an opportunity to demonstrate their warmth and sense of pride.

First Minister Alex Salmond

Brave, Pixar's next feature film, will premier to the American public on June 22nd.