num_pages: 160
description: Audiences cheer at the inventive short films that precede every Pixar Animation Studios feature-length film. Their contagious energy economical storytelling and rambunctious humor set the stage perfectly for the ward-winning films that follow. They also harken back to a bygone era of showmanship when serials and shorts summoned and focused movie watchers' attention for the big show to follow. In The Art of Pixar Short Films respected animation journalist Amid Amidi examines the legacy of short filmmaking at the Emeryville California studio in interviews with the directors producers artists and animators who created For the Birds Lifted and eleven other iconic shorts.More than 250 full-color illustrations pencil sketches storyboards photographs and final rendered frames showcase the vision of a talented group of artist as well as their storytelling prowess; these films often foego dialogue in favor of communicating with emotion (Luxo Jr.) music (Boundin' and One Man Band) and perfectly time pratfall humor (Knick Knack).This beautifully desiged and studiously researched book is a strong addition to animation and film scholarship an intimate tour inside the most admired animation studio at work today.
language: English
title: The Art of Pixar Short Films
publisher: Chronicle Books