Making Of Pixar's Self

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Making Of Pixar'S Self

In Pixar's all-new SparkShort "SELF", the stop-motion element plays into the story. See this journey of self discovery, streaming Friday only on Disney Plus.

Transcript
00:00 The great thing about Pixar is that people love to work on new and experimental projects.
00:05 We let people know like, "Hey, we're making a stop-motion film. Do you want to help?"
00:09 But we also knew that we didn't have all the skill sets to make a stop-motion film,
00:13 so we actually contacted Tippett Studios in Berkeley, California to help us make this film.
00:19 The stop-motion element plays into the story.
00:23 In the film, self is the only thing that's stop-motion versus everything around her is CG.
00:28 We wanted to accentuate the difference between a stop-motion puppet and a CG character.
00:33 CG characters move differently. They have a different kind of flow, whereas stop-motion puppet, she looks different.
00:39 This puppet was yearning to become this smoother character.
00:43 (bubbling)