List of Pixar shorts

This is a list of animated short films produced by Pixar Animation Studios.

Beginning with Pixar's second film A Bug's Life, almost all subsequent Pixar feature films have been shown in theaters along with a Pixar-created original short film, known as a "short." Other Pixar shorts, released only on home media, were created to showcase Pixar's technology or cinematic capabilities, or on commission for clients.

Pixar began producing shorts in the 1980s.[1] The first shorts were made while Pixar was still a computer hardware company, when John Lasseter was the only professional animator in the company's small animation department. Starting with Geri's Game, after Pixar had converted into an animation studio, all later shorts have been produced with a larger crew and budget.

In 1991, Pixar made four CGI shorts produced for the TV series Sesame Street. The shorts illustrates different weights and directions starring Luxo Jr. and Luxo — Light & Heavy, Surprise, Up and Down, and Front and Back.[2]

During the development of Toy Story, Pixar set up a division to work on Pixar video games called Pixar's Interactive Products Group, specifically Toy Story entries in the Disney's Animated Storybook and Disney's Activity Center. Due to the intense resources required, the division was eventually folded and the staff were redistributed to start creating short films to accompany Pixar's theatrical releases.[3][4]

Beginning with A Bug's Life, Pixar has created extra content for each of their films that is not part of the main story. For their early theatrical releases, this content was in the form of outtakes and appeared as part of the film's credits. For each of their films, this content was a short made exclusively for the DVD release of the film.

Among all the Pixar feature films, only Toy Story, Coco, Toy Story 4, Onward, and Soul do not have theatrical Pixar shorts, as the practice had not yet started with Toy Story, Coco had the Disney Animation short Olaf's Frozen Adventure for only 2 weeks, Onward had the 20th Century Animation short Playdate with Destiny, based on the animated series The Simpsons, and Soul received only a limited theatrical release (due to the COVID-19 pandemic).[5]

Shorts

Theatrical short films

Title	Year	Director(s)	Initial release with		Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
			Theatrical	Home[lower-alpha 1]
The Adventures of André & Wally B.[lower-alpha 2]	1984	Alvy Ray Smith
Luxo Jr.	1986	John Lasseter	Toy Story 2[6]		Nominated
Red's Dream	1987
Tin Toy	1988			Toy Story	Won
Knick Knack	1989		Finding Nemo[7]
Geri's Game	1997	Jan Pinkava	A Bug's Life		Won
For the Birds	2000	Ralph Eggleston	Monsters, Inc.
Boundin'	2003	Bud Luckey	The Incredibles		Nominated
One Man Band	2005	Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews	Cars
Lifted	2006	Gary Rydstrom	Ratatouille
Presto	2008	Doug Sweetland	WALL-E
Partly Cloudy	2009	Peter Sohn	Up
Day & Night	2010	Teddy Newton	Toy Story 3		Nominated
La Luna[8]	2011	Enrico Casarosa	Brave
The Blue Umbrella[9]	2013	Saschka Unseld	Monsters University
Lava[10]	2014	James Ford Murphy	Inside Out
Sanjay's Super Team[11]	2015	Sanjay Patel	The Good Dinosaur		Nominated
Piper[12]	2016	Alan Barillaro	Finding Dory		Won
Lou[13]	2017	Dave Mullins	Cars 3		Nominated
Bao[14]	2018	Domee Shi	Incredibles 2		Won

SparkShorts series

SparkShorts is a series of animated short films produced by Pixar filmmakers and artists, similar to its sister series Short Circuit from Disney. It consists of longer independent shorts. Under the project, Pixar's employees are merely given six months and limited budgets to develop these animated short films.

Title	Year	Duration	Director(s)	Premiered	Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Purl[15][16]	2018	8 minutes	Kristen Lester	YouTube
Smash and Grab[17][18][16]	2019	8 minutes	Brian Larsen
Kitbull[16]		8 minutes	Rosana Sullivan		Nominated
Float[16]		6 minutes	Bobby Rubio	Disney+
Wind[16]		8 minutes	Edwin Chang
Loop[16]	2020	8 minutes	Erica Milsom
Out[16]		9 minutes	Steven Hunter
Burrow[19]		6 minutes	Madeline Sharafian

Feature-related

Title	Year	Director(s)	Initial release with		Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
			Theatrical	Home[lower-alpha 1]
Mike's New Car	2002	Pete Docter and Roger L. Gould		Monsters, Inc.	Nominated
Jack-Jack Attack	2005	Brad Bird		The Incredibles
Mr. Incredible and Pals		Roger L. Gould
Mater and the Ghostlight	2006	John Lasseter		Cars
Your Friend the Rat	2007	Jim Capobianco		Ratatouille
BURN-E	2008	Angus MacLane		WALL-E
Dug's Special Mission	2009	Ronnie del Carmen		Up
George and A.J.		Josh Cooley
The Legend of Mor'du[20]	2012	Brian Larsen		Brave
Party Central[21]	2013	Kelsey Mann	Muppets Most Wanted
Riley's First Date?[22][23][24][25]	2015	Josh Cooley		Inside Out
Marine Life Interviews	2016	Ross Stevenson		Finding Dory
Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool[26]	2017	James Ford Murphy		Cars 3
Auntie Edna[27]	2018	Ted Mathot		Incredibles 2
Lamp Life[28][29]	2020	Valerie LaPointe		Disney+

Notes

1. Non-compilation
2. Produced by The Graphics Group, a subsidiary of Lucasfilm which would later become Pixar.

Short series

Cars Toons

Mater's Tall Tales

Title	Year	Director(s)	Premiered
Rescue Squad Mater	2008	John Lasseter	Toon Disney
Mater the Greater
El Materdor
Tokyo Mater[30]			Theatrical with Bolt
Unidentified Flying Mater	2009		Disney Channel
Monster Truck Mater	2010
Heavy Metal Mater
Moon Mater[31]		Rob Gibbs	DVD + Blu-ray with Mater's Tall Tales
Mater Private Eye[32]
Air Mater[33]	2011		DVD + Blu-ray with Cars 2
Time Travel Mater[34]	2012		Disney Channel

Tales from Radiator Springs

Title	Year	Director(s)	Premiered
Hiccups	2013	Jeremy Lasky	Disney Channel
Bugged
Spinning
The Radiator Springs 500½	2014	Rob Gibbs and Scott Morse	Disney Movies Anywhere

Toy Story Toons

Title	Year	Director(s)	Premiered
Hawaiian Vacation[35][36]	2011	Gary Rydstrom	Theatrical with Cars 2
Small Fry[37]		Angus MacLane	Theatrical with The Muppets
Partysaurus Rex[38]	2012	Mark Walsh	Theatrical with Finding Nemo 3D

Forky Asks a Question

Title	Year(s)	Duration	Director(s)	Premiered
What Is Money?	2019	2 minutes	Bob Peterson	Disney+
What Is a Friend?		2 minutes
What Is Art?		3 minutes
What Is Time?		3 minutes
What Is Love?		3 minutes
What Is a Computer?		3 minutes
What Is a Leader?		2 minutes
What Is a Pet?		3 minutes
What Is Cheese?	2020	3 minutes
What Is Reading?		2 minutes

Pixar Popcorn

Title	Year(s)	Director(s)	Premiere
To Fitness and Beyond	2021	Adam Rodriguez	Disney+
Unparalleled Parking		James Ford Murphy
Dory Finding		Michal Makarwicz
Soul of the City		Christopher Chua
Fluffy Stuff with Ducky and Bunny: Love		Robert H. Russ
Chore Day the Incredibles Way		Alan Barillaro
A Day in the Life of the Dead		Allison Rutland
Fluffy Stuff with Ducky and Bunny: Three Heads		Robert H. Russ
Dancing with the Cars		Juan Carlos Navarro Carrión
Cookie Num Num		Jae Hyung Kim

Compilations

Compilation title	Release date	Format
Tiny Toy Stories	October 29, 1996	VHS
Toy Story: Deluxe CAV Laserdisc Edition	December 18, 1996	Laserdisc
Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1	November 6, 2007	DVD, Blu-ray, Digital download
Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales	November 2, 2010
Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 2	November 13, 2012
Toy Story Toons	2012	DVD, Blu-ray
Cars Toons: Bonus Disc	2013	DVD
The Radiator Springs 500½	2014	DVD
Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 3	November 13, 2018	DVD, Blu-ray, Digital download

Other work

Pixar made a series of clips featuring Luxo and Luxo Jr. for Sesame Street, which were Light & Heavy, Surprise, Up and Down, and Front and Back.[2] Pixar also produced numerous animation tests, commonly confused with theatrical shorts, including Beach Chair and Flags and Waves. They also produced over 30 commercials after selling their software division to support themselves before Toy Story entered production. Some of their other work includes:

Title	Year	Commissioned for
Blowin' in the Wind[39]	1985
Beach Chair[40]	1986
Flags and Waves[40]
Volume Visualization with the Pixar Image Computer[41]	1987
Dance of the Waterlilies	1989	Toppan Printing
Wake Up[42]		Tropicana
Babies	1990	Life Savers
Galaxy		Toppan Printing
Dancing Cards		California Lottery
Quite a Package[42]		Trident
La Nouvelle Polo		Volkswagen
Pump		Pillsbury
Light & Heavy and Surprise[2]		Sesame Street
Cracks	1991	Fleischmann's
Moving Target		Cellular One
Gummie Savers Conga-Clio-award winner		Life Savers
Life At The Beach
Orange Kiwi Passion		Tropicana
Warehouse
Three Fruits Dancing
Grand Opening		Toys "R" Us
Lunchbox		Tetra Pak
Boxer[42]		Listerine
Knight
Introduction[43]		Apple Mac Classic
Interview	1992	Volkswagen Polo
Swinging Bottle[42]		Listerine
Daydream		Tetra Pak
Balloon		Kellogg's All-Bran
Hourglass
Logo		IBM
Chomp Chomp		IncrediBites
Ladybug		La Poste
In the Mood		Bunn Coffee Makers
Cello	1993	Kellogg's All-Bran
Sprinkler
Front and Back and Up and Down[2]		Sesame Street
Hungry		Bank South
Chase
Stranded		Tetra Pak
Bursting		Carefree
Chuckling Straws		Fresca
Launching Magic		Jordan Magic Toothbrush
Ideas at Work		Dow Corning
Arrows-Clio-award winner	1994	Listerine
Mission
Kaleidoscope		Coca-Cola
About to Uncover		Arm & Hammer
Here, There and Everywhere
Woman Getting What She Wants		Levi's
We've Got Taste		Nutri Grain
Wacky Frootz-Clio-award winner[42]		Life Savers
Fresh Salad		Boston Chicken
Shaping Up Nicely		Prime Option Credit Card
Strong Option
Logo		Paramount Pictures
Balloon	1995	Chips Ahoy
Circus
Flamingo		Ortho
Pinheads		Dockers
Amazin' Straws		Hershey's
Learning Lesson		Coca-Cola
Secret Weapon'
Pin Box
Toy Story video game		Disney Interactive
Art Store Break		McDonald's
Christmas Conga		Tower Records
Magic Desktop	1996	Sun Microsystems
Magnets-Clio-award winner		Hallmark
Check Me Out		Twizzlers
Let Me In
The Tastetations		Hershey's
Toy Story CD-Rom – "Out of the Box"		Disney Interactive
Wild Frijoles		Rosarita
Shake It		Levi's Jeans for Women
Tex		THX
Toy Story Treats		ABC
Look Away	1997	Nickelodeon & UNICEF
Moo Can		THX
A Bug's Life – "Belt Loop 1"	1998	McDonald's
A Bug's Life – "Belt Loop 2"
A Bug's Life – "Big Toys"
A Bug's Life – "Nothing Good on TV"
A Bug's Life – "Nothing Good on TV Jr."
A Bug's Life – "Watches"		McDonald's Mexico
Filmreel Bumpers	1999	Buena Vista Home Video
Toy Story 2 – "Up Periscope"	2000	McDonald's
Toy Story 2 – "Remote"
Toy Story 2 – "Toys vs. Candy"
Toy Story 2 – "Surveillance"
Unknown Toy Story 2 Animations[43]		ABC
Jessie's Acceptance Speech		Cowgirl Hall of Fame
Vowellett – An Essay by Sarah Vowell	2005
Tex Action inside the car	2006	THX
Monster Moo Can	2009
Toy Story's Search Story[44]	2010	Google

Furthermore, in 1988, Apple's Advanced Technology Group produced "Pencil Test," a computer-animated short to showcase the Apple Macintosh II line.[45][46] Although Pixar was not officially affiliated with this film, several members of the Pixar staff advised and worked on it, including directors John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and producer Galyn Susman. John Lasseter was credited as "Coach" in the credits of the film.[47] The Pixar Co-op Program, a part of the Pixar University professional development program, allows their animators to use Pixar resources to produce independent films.[48][49] The first CGI project accepted to the program was Borrowed Time (2016), directed by Pixar animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj; all previously accepted films were live-action.[50]

See also

• List of Pixar films

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External links

• Short Films at Pixar