Director Saschka Unseld gets a good laugh when people learn that his film, The Blue Umbrella, is entirely animated. The short, which debuts alongside Pixar’s feature film Monsters University this ...

The Blue Umbrella is the first Pixar short to be directed by a member of the technical team as opposed to the creative one. Camera and staging artist Saschka Unseld was listening to Jaffe’s music on a ...

Pixar is almost singlehandedly keeping alive the classic cinema tradition of screening a short film for theater audiences before the feature they came to see. All of the little films are worth ...

While most of Pixar's full-length films have been utterly delightful, we have a soft spot in our hearts for the shorts that got the studio started and continue to air in front of its longer movies.