Your Friend the Rat

00:00:05 Hi, I'm Jim Capobianco.

00:00:33 You know, a lot of people at Pixar have come from 2D

00:01:00 and I had a blast working with them to do this.

00:01:37 using that as a jumping-off point.

00:02:01 and in a succinct amount of time as well.

00:02:39 And I think probably the best example of it in the cartoon is

00:03:10 That's one thing that was kind of exciting about this short

00:03:44 One thing that was exciting, for me, coming onto this project

00:04:11 I was asked to start referencing artwork

00:04:35 was to have a very staccato kind of feel to it.

00:04:58 in the way you have to do it with the computer programs

00:05:21 -unlike everything else. -Well, just like they used to.

00:05:48 One of the things I wanted to do, like in the old '50s animation

00:06:18 and he just puts it all together.

00:06:43 but the guys did such an amazing job.

00:07:15 It did, yeah.

00:07:35 To pull them back and to do a little less with this stylized way.

00:08:11 that's integrated all our styles of animation.

00:08:41 and I spent the day tracing it, drawing by drawing, with chalk.

00:09:17 My good friend, James Dashe, I asked him. . .

00:09:48 it also has that feel of two guys coming together to sing a song.

00:10:16 with the three-dimensional and two-dimensional.

00:10:47 and the truly talented group, and I hope to work with all of them again someday.