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Pixar Animation Studios Unveils "Loving Dory" Set To Be Screened In Front Of "Gatto", Marking The Studio's Return To Theatrical Short Films

Let's keep swimming.... cause Dory has found love.... well sort of...

As part of the Pixar Animation Studios showcase at Annecy Film Festival revealed a brand new short film "Loving Dory" set in the Finding Nemo universe which will be screened in from of "Gatto" marking the studio's return to theatrical short-films since "Carl's Date" in 2023 and "Bao" in 2018.

The short-film is directed by Lou Hamou-Lhad ("Win Or Lose") with Thomas Newman returning to score the short-film. Though the short looks very similar to the Finding Nemo films, the biggest innovation comes in the previs stage. Hamou-Lhadj showcased a real-time puppetry technique in which characters move through procedurally generated animation while following the animator’s cursor. Similar technology has been used at studios like Blue Zoo and Spain’s Lightbox Animation, but this marks a first for Pixar.

“The most important part of this whole thing is that the system is designed to consider the performance as the camera sees it,” explained Hamou-Lhadj. “We’re always operating with the final shot in mind, solving backward from that. It feels like you’re directing a live performer, telling them where their mark is and embracing improvisation to explore performance possibilities. Restaging is also immediate. There are no translate handles, no rotation widgets, just where the character should be on screen.”

"Loving Dory"  follows Dory which finally finds love with a plastic bag that drifts into the ocean and that she mistakes for a jellyfish. While the short offers commentary on how human waste disrupts marine life, it does so with a highly comedic tone. We saw rom-com tropes recreated accidentally when Dory’s fin became wrapped in the bag’s handles, allowing it to “pick” a bouquet of coral for her as they drifted through the ocean together.

Walt Disney Animation Studios Screens First 20 Minutes Of "Hexed" To Audiences At The Annecy Film Festival.

Walt Disney Animation Studios came to the Annecy International Animation Film Festival this week with a magic surprise by screening the first 20 minutes of "Hexed" to audiences.

Here's a description of what happen via Laughing Place:

The film opens 15 years before the main events, where a one-year-old Billie discovers magic within her and accidentally tears open a portal to another realm. A ridiculously cute rough-animation pass of baby Billie floating awake and delighting in the portal drew big laughs. Alarmed, Alice gives her daughter a bracelet framed as "protection,” but it secretly caps Billie's magic so she can never open another portal. That tension between limitation and potential becomes the spine of their relationship.

The rest of the screening featured scenes of the first trailer with Alice grinds away at the most boring job in the most boring town (the company motto, glimpsed in concept art, reads "Think Inside the Box"), while Billie chafes against school uniforms and rules she didn't choose. After getting hauled into the principal's office over a liberated school mascot (a real owl in a cage), Billie snatches his laptop and bolts for the bathroom to destroy the evidence, only for her bracelet to snag and snap on a hook, sending her powers haywire and dousing the principal in purple goo.

Spooked, Alice prepares to skip town, prying up floorboards to retrieve stashed magical artifacts, including a spellbook. As she packs, a menacing crow-shaped shadow turns out to be just a pigeon. Or was it? Billie, meanwhile, paces a purple bedroom cluttered with bespoke decor (including Aladdin's magic carpet), experiments with her own magic, and opens a portal of her own, leading into a wooden hall lined with witchy ephemera and a mural depicting witches persecuted by settlers before retreating into the woods and their own realm.

Walt Disney Animation Studios Announces "Lilo & Scratch" Short That Combines Traditional Hand-Drawn Animation And CGI Animation.

Walt Disney Animation Studios unveiled a brand new animated short-film "Lilo & Scratch" as part of their Annecy Film Festival presentation, the new short was part of the studio's showcase.

The short directed by Fawn Veerasunthorn ("Wish", "Hexed") and Malcom Pierce ("Versa", "Moana") mixes hand-drawn animation with CGI animation in a new production pipeline that will be used in future films & shorts.

Chris Sanders returns to voice Stitch while Maia Kealoha will voice Lilo for the short-film. The presentation further demonstrated the project’s hybrid approach as the short embraces Disney’s modern CG production pipeline while preserving the watercolor aesthetic that defined the 2002 feature. Veerasunthorn and Pierce recreated the film’s iconic vinyl record scene, pairing hand-painted 2D backgrounds with CG versions of Lilo and Stitch that were nearly indistinguishable from their hand-drawn counterparts. with an animation test featuring the CG Stitch interacting with the hand-drawn Scratch.

Original Lilo & Stitch supervising animator Alex Kupershmidt returned to animate scenes for the short on paper. “He was always reminding us to push the animation very, very far, saying, ‘What are you afraid of?'” Veerasunthorn said.

"Lilo and Scratch" gollows the pair as their peaceful home life is disrupted by a rescue cat named Scratch. The filmmakers screened the opening minutes of the short, which begin with Stitch lounging on the couch watching slapstick comedies before escalating into a frenetic battle between Stitch and Scratch. Packed with physical comedy, the footage showcased fluid, energetic animation that beautifully recreates the look and feel of the original film.

The animator draws Angel from "Lilo & Stitch: The Series" with plans to help the darling diva put on a concert, but Angel has even bigger plans

"The Doomies" creators on the "Gravity Falls" comparasions via BSCKids.

"Gravity Falls” is an incredible show, and I feel honored to be compared to it. My original intention was to create a horror series for kids inspired by the movies I watched as a kid: “Ghostbusters,” “Gremlins,” and, of course, “The Goonies.” That’s where most of my inspiration came from. My goal was really to make a “Evil Dead” for kids😊" - Fernandez

“Gravity Falls” ran so that “The Doomies” could walk. “Gravity Falls” is an amazing show and I am sure it had even more influence on us than we realise. It set the bar super high, which meant we really had to push ourselves to match it. So a big thanks to them, and if they watch “The Doomies”, I hope they’ll get a kick out of it too!" - Henry Gifford

"I watch very few television series, and I actually discovered “Gravity Falls” while we were developing The Doomies. It’s undoubtedly a fantastic show, but it wasn’t one of my original references or influences. That said, we were aiming for a similar balance between thrills and comedy. The real challenge was finding our own voice and creating something that felt distinctly different." - Rémi Zaarour (Pozla)

A third "Theme Song Takeover" short for "Wizards Beyond Waverly Place" starring Billie is slated for Saturday, July 25 on the Disney Channel Animation YouTube. via EIDR.

A new "How NOT To Draw" short starring Red and Chloe is slated for Saturday July 25 on Disney Channel Animation YouTube via EIDR. Kylie Cantrall & Malia Baker reprise their roles for the short.

RSVLTS Unveils First Look To Phineas And Ferb Clothing Apparel

Summer belongs to you with this new "Phineas And Ferb" clothing apparel by RSVLTS. ☀️⚙️The collection is now available to order.

Make every summer adventure a little more inventive with new designs such as -  "Citizens of Danville," "Doofenshmirtz Evil Incorporated," "Summer Shenanigans," "Tri-State Sketches," "Semi-Aquatic Egg-Laying Mammal of Action," "Backyard Blueprints," "Love Händel," "Doofen-shirt," and "Perry the Platypus." Whether you're plotting your next big idea or just soaking up the sunshine, these styles are ready to bring a little Danville magic wherever the season takes you. All designs on our KUNUFLEX™ material and are available in our classic style/sizing with select designs also being available in women's & youth styles/sizes.

"Cars: Lightning Racers" Presentation At Annecy Film Festival Unveils Redesings, Partnership With Pixar Animation Studios And Walt Disney Imagineering

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival's Work In Progress series gave audiences an early look at Cars: Lightning Racers, the new Disney Television Animation series produced in association with Pixar, debuting in 2027 on Disney Jr. and Disney+.

The panel brought executive producers Travis Braun and Frank Montagna, supervising director Nathan Chew, and Pixar producer Mary Alice Drumm discussed the upcoming preschool series where they unveiled the following details:

-The series is slated for a July, 2027 debut

-Audiences got a WIP progress of the series third episode

-Story editor Dana Starfield wanted to showcase Lightning's life beyond the races for the series.

-Redesings where done by Disney Television Animation veteran Jose Zelaya

-Translating Radiator Springs meant applying what the team called the "Disney Junior paintbrush," simplifying shapes and colors, and "toonifying" the town while preserving its charm

-The series also introduces new locations, chief among them the Race Shop, the Lightning Racers' headquarters. Inspired by 1940s and '50s gas stations, diners, and parking garages, it's anchored by a giant tire centerpiece.

-The board team numbers roughly eight artists and three revisionists, with assistant director Julius Aguimatang, a veteran of the original Cars, on board.

-At its heart, the producers said, the series leans into the franchise's core values of friendship, teamwork, and community, a message Braun called timely.

-Pixar's Jay Ward, who is Cars brand ambassador who knows every character inside and out showcased the crew the "treasure trove" of material: abandoned storylines, unbuilt sets, and uncompleted shorts for the series.

The "Chibiverse" and Disney Television Animation Multiplatform offices features adorable decoring like the blueprint of "Dreambot" and a radiography of "Pebble The Rock".

Another decoring includes sketches of the "How Not To Draw" shorts.

Unleash the power of the dragons with the "Dragon Striker" Vol 1. by Walt Disney Records featuring score suites by Kevin Penkin ("Made in Abyss") and the songs "Power Of The Dragon" and "The Very End". 🐉⚽️✨🎶

Boom clap, boom d'clap, d'clap with Hoedown Throwdown from the standalone special "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+: Mickey's Country Farm" by Walt Disney Records.

The Disney Kids Youtube channel has uploaded the crossover episode of "Lilo And Stitch: The Series" x "Kim Possible" for FREE.

Disney Kids & Family Unveils Standalone ‘Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+’ Special ‘Mickey’s Country Farm’ Slated For July 30.

Time to go to the country!

Disney Kids & Family has announced Mickey’s Country Farm, a brand-new standalone full-length Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+ special, is set to debut Thursday, July 30 (7 a.m. EDT/PDT), on Disney Jr. and Disney Jr. on Demand, streaming the next day on Disney+.

A first look at the special was released today, revealing Mickey, Minnie and the gang alongside Lasso Lucy, voiced by guest star Megan Hilty, performing the “Hoedown Throwdown,” a new version of the song and dance performed by Disney Legend Miley Cyrus in Hannah Montana: The Movie. The new song will be available as a single this Friday, June 26, on all streaming platforms.

Originally produced as part of season one "Mickey’s Country Farm" features Mickey and friends use their new farm vehicles to build the Fairest Farm Fair ever — hoping Daisy’s cowgirl idol, Lasso Lucy, will stop by for a visit.

Leading up to the premiere, there’s even more good ol’ country fun as Mickey and his pals sing some familiar songs when they visit the farm. Following the release of the single “Hoedown Throwdown,” the soundtrack “Disney Jr. Music: Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+ – Mickey’s Country Farm” will be available to stream on all platforms beginning July 31. New “Mickey’s Country Farm Songs” Shorts will debut on Disney Jr. and Disney+ on July 27.

Candlewick Press unveiled a first look to "Dasher". ❄️

Ryan Agustin ("Hailey's On It!", Untitled Third "Phineas And Ferb" film) showcases us the animatic from the "Chibiverse" episode "Space Race".

The episode is NOW available on Youtube, Disney Channel and Disney+.