The Pixar Shorts: A Short History

00:00:01 You look at every animation studio

00:00:49 [Lasseter] The development of our talents

00:01:40 All of the images in the animation were being created

00:02:31 It was at that time we went out

00:03:27 Because the body is where a cartoon character

00:04:28 on a hillside full of trees.

00:05:22 [Guggenheim] Some of the companies

00:06:07 We had motion blur. One of the most revolutionary things Pixar came up with.

00:06:59 Wasn't much of a story but there it was. It worked.

00:07:57 So you know what, I'm just gonna

00:08:43 of John's ability to make films.

00:09:39 [Lasseter] And I started animating it as though it was alive.

00:10:48 [Ostby] John had a clear idea of what the limitations of the medium were.

00:11:52 You realize it's no longer a test if it's actually touching you in some way.

00:12:58 this new rendering system. We had the Pixar image computer.

00:14:05 Oh, that's great.

00:15:02 And I always say that was Pixar's "blue period."

00:16:10 [Ostby] What now seems amazingly primitive at the time was the limit

00:17:12 It was the first 3D computer animation ever to win an Academy Award.

00:18:32 We had people designing their own characters.

00:19:45 It added a bit of glamour to the quality of the product.

00:20:55 to hire John away from us.

00:22:03 Let's give them a chance to be a supervising animator.

01:09:08 Let's back off a little bit and make a film that's fun