Sunday, September 27, 2009

Red's Dream (1987)

Red's Dream is a short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by John Lasseter, which was released in 1987. To date, this is the only short that has not been attached to one of Pixar's feature films, the only Pixar Short to be rendered on the Pixar Image Computer, and the first Pixar Short to feature an organic character: the circus clown known as Lumpy.

According to Lasseter in the audio commentary, Ed Catmull wanted the Pixar staff to make a film using the Pixar Image Computer and the rendering software Chapreyes. Lasseter began to develop the story of a circus clown who is upstaged by his own unicycle while, quite separately, William Reeves began working on a city during a rainy night. At the same time, Eben Ostby had been wanting to animate a bicycle. Ultimately, the three combined their ideas, which resulted in the creation of Red's Dream.



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