The Pixar Shorts: A Short History
2007 · 23 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 855 VOTES · DIR. Tony Kaplan, Erica Milsom
Overview
The story of Pixar's early short films illuminates not only the evolution of the company but also the early days of computer animation, when a small group of artists and scientists shared a single computer in a hallway, and struggled to create emotionally compelling short films.
Dialogue Timeline — 441 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
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.
00:07:01 But we didn't finish it in time for SIGGRAPH.
00:07:58 sit right next to them and work in collaboration.
00:08:46 We could do what he couldn't.
00:09:43 And thinking about if a Luxo lamp was alive how would it move around?
00:10:52 So he told a story he could tell in that medium and not have to invent stuff
00:11:57 They laugh. They cry. They go out singing the songs.
00:13:01 We wrote a rendering system that ran on it.
00:14:07 So you can see it. I got the movement of the tags.
00:15:09 [toy drums beating]
00:16:18 like soft shadows and the textures of wood flooring
00:17:20 was plant in our heads the idea of toys being alive.
00:18:37 as he had done on previous films.
00:19:51 which is why we got out of it.
00:20:59 to stay with a struggling startup
00:22:10 So from Geri's Game on, the short films were helping to develop our talent
08:00:05 people in the course of a week.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed441
Dialogue density19.2 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line08:00:05
Production Record
DirectorTony Kaplan, Erica Milsom
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes855