As Cars 3 insists, it’s never too late to teach an old dog (or car, or film studio) some new tricks.
In 2016, Pixar launched an internal, experimental storytelling initiative to enable new creative voices and explore alternative storytelling techniques, pipelines, and workflows in production.
But the recent revelation that Pixar had created an internal division to create experimental shorts flies in the face of all that.
“Smash and Grab” is a seven minute short film that explores the use of a comic book development process, virtual production, performance/camera capture, and procedural shading and lighting techniques.