List of Pixar shorts

1986 Luxo Jr. poster, which has introduced the most recognizable symbol of the studio.

Beginning with Pixar's second film A Bug's Life, all subsequent Pixar feature films have been shown in theatres along with a Pixar-created short. Other Pixar shorts, released only on home media, were created to showcase what Pixar can do (either technologically or cinematically), or were created specifically for a client.

Pixar's ideas and technical capabilities have developed by producing shorts since 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 tiny animation department. Starting with Geri's Game, after Pixar had turned 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 and Heavy (1990), Surprise (1991), Up and Down (1993), and Front and Back (1994).^[2]

Also, 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 "movie 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.^[3]

Shorts

Original

Title	Year	Director(s)	Initial theatrical release with	Initial home release[lower-alpha 1] with	Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
The Adventures of André and Wally B. [lower-alpha 2]	1984	Alvy Ray Smith
Luxo Jr.	1986	John Lasseter	Toy Story 2 [4]		Nominated
Red's Dream	1987
Tin Toy	1988			Toy Story	Won
Knick Knack	1989		Finding Nemo [5]
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 [6]	2011	Enrico Casarosa	Brave
The Blue Umbrella [7]	2013	Saschka Unseld	Monsters University
Lava [8]	2014	James Ford Murphy	Inside Out
Sanjay's Super Team [9]	2015	Sanjay Patel	The Good Dinosaur		Nominated
Piper [10]	2016	Alan Barillaro	Finding Dory
Lou [11]	2017	Dave Mullins	Cars 3

Feature-related

Title	Year	Director(s)	Initial theatrical release with	Initial home release[lower-alpha 1] with	Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Mike's New Car	2002	Pete Docter and Roger L. Gould		Monsters, Inc.	Nominated
Jack-Jack Attack	2005	Brad Bird		The Incredibles
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 & A.J.		Josh Cooley
The Legend of Mor'du [12]	2012	Brian Larsen		Brave
Party Central [13]	2013	Kelsey Mann	Muppets Most Wanted
Riley's First Date? [14][15][16][17]	2015	Josh Cooley		Inside Out

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	Premiered
Rescue Squad Mater	2008	Toon Disney
Mater the Greater
El Materdor
Tokyo Mater [18]		Theatrical, with Bolt
Unidentified Flying Mater	2009	Disney Channel
Monster Truck Mater	2010
Heavy Metal Mater
Moon Mater [19]		DVD+Blu-ray, with Mater's Tall Tales
Mater Private Eye [20]
Air Mater [21]	2011	DVD+Blu-ray, with Cars 2
Time Travel Mater [22]	2012	Disney Channel

Tales from Radiator Springs

Title	Year	Premiered
Hiccups	2013	Disney Channel
Bugged
Spinning
The Radiator Springs 500½	2014	Disney Movies Anywhere

Toy Story Toons

Title	Year	Premiered
Hawaiian Vacation [23][24]	2011	Theatrical/DVD+Blu-ray, with Cars 2
Small Fry [25]		Theatrical, with The Muppets DVD+Blu-ray, with Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 2
Partysaurus Rex [26]	2012	Theatrical, with Finding Nemo 3D DVD+Blu-ray, with Monsters, Inc. Ultimate Collector's Edition

Television specials

Title	Year	Premiered
Toy Story of Terror! [27][28]	2013	ABC
Toy Story That Time Forgot [29]	2014

Compilations

Compilation title	Release date	Format
Tiny Toy Stories	October 29, 1996	VHS
Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1	November 6, 2007	DVD, Blu-ray, Digital download
Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales	November 2, 2010	DVD, Blu-ray, Digital download
Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 2	November 13, 2012	DVD, Blu-ray, Digital download

Other work

Pixar animated a series of clips featuring Luxo and Luxo Jr. for Sesame Street, which were Light & Heavy, and Surprise. Pixar also produced numerous animation tests, commonly confused with theatrical shorts, including Beach Chair and Flag 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	Initial home release with	Commissioned for
Flags and Waves [30]	1986	Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 (Easter Egg)
Beach Chair [30]
Volume Visualization on Image Computer [31]	1987
Dance of the Waterlilies	1989		Toppan Printing
Wake Up [32]	1990		Tropicana
Skateboard			Life Savers
Dancing Cards			California Lottery
Quite a Package [32]			Trident
Light & Heavy and Surprise			Sesame Street
Boxer [32]			Listerine
La Nouvelle Polo			Volkswagen
Plump			Pillsbury
Galaxy			Toppan Printing
Grands	1991		Pillsbury
Cracks			Fleischmann's
Conga-Clio-award winner			Life Savers
Orange Kiwi Passion			Tropicana
Warehouse
Three Fruits Dancing
Logo	1992		IBM
In The Jungle [32]			Listerine
Violin			Kellogg's All-Bran
Arrows-Clio-award winner	1993		Listerine
Conga (Wacky)-Clio-award winner [32]	1994		Life Savers
Logo			Paramount Pictures
Hot Air/Circus	1995		Chips Ahoy
Tex	1996		THX
Toy Story Treats			ABC
Look Away	1997		Nickelodeon & UNICEF
Moo Can			THX
Vowellett - An Essay by Sarah Vowell	2005	The Incredibles 2-disc special edition DVD
Monster Moo Can	2009		THX
Toy Story's Search Story [33]	2010		Google

Furthermore, in 1988, Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group produced "Pencil Test," a computer-animated short to showcase the Apple Macintosh II line. 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.

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External links

• Short Films at Pixar