Pixar animated shorts

[Chris]

Can you tell me what the name of the short was that had the man asking
women out...and they were all killing him in different ways, oh and also
the one with the stick figure couple who spoke about their first date??
Thanks ever so much,
jen

Steve Browne <sbr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
<361cf8d5...@nntp.ix.netcom.com>...
> What with ANTZ and other computer-animated features appearing, I
> thought I'd comment on a "short" by Pixar I recently viewed as part of
> "Spike & Mike's Animation Festival". I've seen this annual arthouse
> collection for years, and there's always a discovery amidst the duds.
>

[Bill Reiser]

On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Steve Browne wrote:

> What with ANTZ and other computer-animated features appearing, I
> thought I'd comment on a "short" by Pixar I recently viewed as part of
> "Spike & Mike's Animation Festival". I've seen this annual arthouse
> collection for years, and there's always a discovery amidst the duds.

> This time it was Pixar's short, The Chess Game, which featured a
> long-nosed old gentleman (homage to George Pal, I guess) playing a
> game against himself. The nuances of expression are quite extraordinary.

It's pretty amazing. After hearing a lot about it, I caught the short on,
of all places, C-SPAN, in the middle of a speech by Steve Jobs, now one of
the Pixar mucky-mucks after plucking Apple off the tree.

It's too bad studios don't attach shorts to features very often--there was
that brief run of Roger Rabbit 'toons there for a while, and Disney slips us
a Mickey from time to time, but that's about it, innit?

> This comes to mind because on seeing a still from ANTZ I decided *not*
> to see it; the characters, anthropomorphised as they may be, don't look
> very expressive. Computer animation can do better than that.

Yep--it has, it will: wait 'til A BUG'S LIFE. Pixar didn't do ANTZ.

> So Pixar has a great technique. Now all they need is a great story....

What about TOY STORY?

BR