Source: https://twitter.com/Disney/status/1337193176818446336Next, grab a quick snack with Pixar Popcorn, a collection of mini shorts starring some of your favorite Pixar characters in all-new, bite size stories. Popcorn Coming to Disney Plus in January.
These shorts look similar to the Zootopia ones, don't they? At least Dancing with the Cars, which looks like it could be a parody of Dancing with the Stars. Are the other titles parodies too or just that one?At the time of the presentation, there wasn't an exact date for release, however, we now know that Pixar Popcorn will come exclusively to Disney+ on January 22, 2021. At this time we are unsure if all below mentioned titles will be released on that date.
• To Fitness and Beyond
• Chore Day: The Incredibles Way
• Dancing with the Cars
• A Day in the Life of the Dead
• Cookie Num Num
• Dory Finding
• Fluffy Stuff with Ducky and Bunny
• Soul of the City
The rest don't sound like parodies to me. They're more like a Pixar spin on mundane activities like exercising, doing chores, working, going about one's day etc. These are labeled "mini shorts", so I expect them to be much shorter than their regular or SparkShort shorts. I'd be surprised if they're over a minute long.D82 wrote:These shorts look similar to the Zootopia ones, don't they? At least Dancing with the Cars, which looks like it could be a parody of Dancing with the Stars. Are the other titles parodies too or just that one?
DisneyFan97 wrote:Will there be dialogue in these shorts ?
https://www.polygon.com/disney-plus/222 ... -interviewD82 wrote:Most of them don't have a story; they're just comprised of a series of gags.
I, too, didn't realize that these were out yet; I'm glad I read the thread first so my expectations aren't too high.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.
“We started directly with animation,” Giblin says.
A 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 of the time and production constraints, the animators also had to follow specific guidelines.
“They had to use existing characters and sets from our feature films,” explains Giblin. “The characters had to act authentic to how they would in the feature. We couldn’t record new dialogue. They had to think of ideas that can be done within this window of time.”
As a result, most of the 10 shorts are close to dialogue-free, with a few exceptions, and they run from one to three minutes long.
The Ducky and Bunny ones were quite funny. Since the article says one of the rules was that they couldn't record new dialogue, I wonder if unused recordings of Ducky and Bunny from Toy Story 4 were used for those two shorts. By the way, the article is wrong about the Olaf shorts. They aren't wordless; Josh Gad recorded new dialogue for them.farerb wrote:I liked the Toy Story and Incredibles ones, the rest was meh and I skipped the Cars ones.
