Much like short films are used to experiment camera shots and techniques which may later be used in feature lengths Pixar’s short films are used to experiment with the technology to push boundaries of 3d animation and to create features they would later like to se in their feature length films. Before each Pixar feature length animation film they create a short film, this short films are show cased at conferences and are usually played before the feature length at cinemas, they also are commonly given as an extra with the DVD. The short films last duration of a few minutes and are usually a narrative based around comedy and creativity, using humorous characters and slapstick comedy has proved the short films to be hugely popular and also helps market the feature length film. the series of short films has also been put together by Pixar to create a compilation DVD which was released in 2007. I was surprised to see that animation use short films in the same way that film uses short film to experiment with the technology and creativity they have and it just goes to prove the original intentions from short film can defiantly make a difference to the industry.
Partly cloudy is a 6 minute short animated film that was released alongside Pixar’s 2009 box office hit ‘UP’, initially used to experiment with cloud animations and the movement of flight with new 3d technology. The imaginative narrative follows the story of a cloud that isn’t very good at his job of creating baby animals that a stork later takes down to an expecting family, following the innocent story usually given to children to explain how babies are made. An unlikely relationship develops between the cloud and the stork and like most Pixar films the short ends happily.
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