Despairing of Pixar 145
An anonymous reader writes "According to AnimWatch, Despair Inc :-( has released the short films of stop-motion animator Mark Osborne on DVD. They're available through Happy Product.com. MORE, the first stop action short film shot in IMAX format has been nominated for an Academy Award, won a Jury Prize at Sundance, appeared in a Kenna music video, and even appears in the Hotline documentation, but this looks like the first time it's ever been available on DVD. According to the filmmaker he hopes to fund future films by selling his old ones. This is the best short film I've ever seen, so all I can say is I'm glad it's finally getting a proper release. Isn't this how
Pixar and Aardman got their starts?"
Direct Download (Score:1, Informative)
No - George Lucas (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, Pixar was a spin-off from the computer graphics division at Lucasfilm. It was sold to Steve Jobs at that time in 1986. Disney wasn't involved until 1991 - well after Pixar had made a name for itself.
Official Pixar History [pixar.com]
Re:Not the first time MORE has been on DVD... (Score:5, Informative)
funding (Score:5, Informative)
For some other non-Pixar fascinating short films, check out:
Duck Amuck - Chuck Jones
Eye Myth - Stan Brakhage
Rabbits - David Lynch
The Heart Of The World - Guy Maddin
The Superbowl Is Gay - Andy Milonakis (yes, I'm serious. This is one of the most purely comedic films ever made)
Commercials (Score:5, Informative)
Tropicana Orange Juice (with bouncy/dancing oranges)
Listerine
Gummy Life Savers that danced and such
Re:No - George Lucas (Score:5, Informative)
Aardman (Score:5, Informative)
Re:No - George Lucas (Score:5, Informative)
MORE about as good as animation gets. (Score:3, Informative)
Forgotten studio? Not quite. (Score:5, Informative)
Fox recently bought Blue Sky Studios in upstate New York, the creators of the short "Bunny" and the feature "Ice Age." They are now working on "Robots" for early 1995 release.
Re:Yahoo pulled short? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Pixar will be around (Score:4, Informative)
Screenshots showing the difference available here (Scoll almost to the bottom)
Link [thedigitalbits.com]
This site also has some pretty good examples of the different aspect ratios, etc.
Re:No - George Lucas (Score:2, Informative)
No, it's not quite how they got their starts. (Score:4, Informative)
Aardman got it's start in the 70's by two animators who loved clay. They sold a show called Morph to the BBC and that made the studio. Nick Park came a decade later. The first Wallace and Gromit was a student film he couldn't finish on his own. Aardman provided the resources for Nick to finish it and the rest is history.
That said, there are a number of OTHER animators who have made decent careers by using one film to finance the next. Bill Plympton comes to mind, as does Don Hertzfeldt.
Mark Osborne's films are similarly great, I wish him lots of luck.
Re:Forgotten studio? Not quite. (Score:3, Informative)
Just dig back 15-20 years or so and you'll come upon the good stuff.
Re:Commercials (Score:4, Informative)
Of course, instead of just hearing people on Slashdot go on about Pixar's history, why not just get it straight from the horse's mouth [pixar.com]?
A nice, clear, and easy history of Pixar.