“We started directly with animation,” Giblin says.Ī hundred animators divided into 10 teams, each led by a different director, and pitched ideas, then immediately started the animation process once a pitch was approved.

Because the animators were all transitioning between projects, they were only available for around two months, give or take, which meant that the entire project had to be expedited - no scripts, storyboards, or other preliminary steps. Producer Maureen Giblin, who previously worked on Pixar’s short-form Disney Plus series Forky Asks a Question, tells Polygon that the traditional production pipeline had to be rejiggered for the shorts series. Executive producer Andy Bell decided to ask all the animators who were between feature films to try their hand at creating shorts from a few Pixar franchises.

The idea for the Pixar Popcorn anthology ignited in April 2020, during the first few weeks of quarantine. This isn’t Pixar’s first short-film series on the streaming platform, but it is the first created 100% from the animators’ homes.

From the cars of Radiator Springs challenging each other to a parallel-parking contest to the superheroes of the Parr family zipping around the house doing chores, the shorts encompass a wide range of quirky, slice-of-life vignettes set in the worlds of the Toy Story films, the Finding Nemo films, the new Pixar feature Soul, and more. Pixar Popcorn, a new batch of 10 shorts premiering on Disney Plus, brings back some favorite Pixar characters in bite-sized stories.

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