Behind the Scenes of Pixar’s Short Film, THE BLUE UMBRELLA
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- Category: Interviews
- Published: Thursday, 31 October 2013 07:30
- Written by Lupe Haas
One Pixar artist’s project was chosen to be made into an animated short film and featured along with MONSTERS UNIVERSITY. “The Blue Umbrella” by director Saschka Unseld gives us the scoop on how he pitched the idea and why the site of a broken umbrella in the street inspired his Pixar creation.
THE BLUE UMBRELLA played ahead of the theatrical run of MONSTERS UNIVERSITY and can now be seen on the bonus features on the MONSTERS UNIVERSITY Blu-ray and DVD release. Pixar traditionally features a short film developed in-house at the Northern California animation studio that plays ahead of the main feature. Pixar Animation Studios also promotes from within and encourages its artists to pitch them projects.
THE BLUE UMBRELLA , the latest animated Pixar short film featured on the MONSTERS UNIVERSITY extras on the Blu-ray and DVD, came about from story from a Pixar layout artist Saschka Unseld, a 5-year employee of the animation studio. The Pixar layout artist talks about his experience of bringing the initial concept to Pixar after having worked on it over the years on his own.