Piper (film)

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Movie
Original title Piper
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2016
length 6 minutes
Rod
Director Alan Barillaro
script Alan Barillaro
production Marc Sondheimer
music Adrian Belew
cut Sarah K. Reimers

Piper is a computer-animated short film released by Pixar in 2016. The film was shown in theaters before the main film Finding Dorie . Like Der Vogelschreck , the film manages without spoken words; the protagonists, mainly sandpipers and hermit crabs , communicate almost exclusively through gestures .

At the 89th Academy Awards , the film received the award for best animated short film . After Der Vogelschreck received the award in 2002 , this was Pixar's second win in the category.

The short film is about a young, hungry beach runners (English sandpiper , hence the movie title). The young bird learns to overcome its fear of water. Inspiration came from less than a mile from Pixar Studios in Emeryville , California , where Barillaro, a seasoned Pixar animator, ran along the shore and noticed thousands of birds fleeing the water but returning between the waves to eat.

action

A shoal of sandpipers is on a seashore looking for food, but after the water has run off the sand after the water has run off after a wave, they rummage through the wet sand with their beaks for mussels and other things to eat withdraw immediately from the water with each new wave. A cub is encouraged by its mother to join the other birds. Since it does not retreat in time, it becomes soaked by an incoming wave. The incident caused the young bird to fear the water; it then refuses to leave the nest. Searching the beach for food at a safe distance from the water from hunger, it soon notices a group of hermit crabs burrowing in the sand to find deeper food and not allow themselves to be washed away by the water. By copying the crabs' behavior, the bird manages to overcome fear, see the beauty of the marine life and develop the ability to spot food for the flock.

production

Like many Pixar shorts, Piper can be viewed as a demonstration of the latest technology. Alan Barillaro developed Piper over a period of three years. To give the sandpipers and other background birds a realistic look, Barillaro and the animation team visited beaches in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Monterey Bay Aquarium to study their appearance and behavior. Especially the sandpipers' feathers have been rendered down to the smallest detail.

Macro shot with very shallow depth of field

In addition, the film is strongly influenced by the composition of the macro photography : It has an exceptionally high proportion of settings with very shallow depth of field, i.e. H. with a very short sharpness range, which means a significantly increased computational effort for rendering algorithms such as RenderMan developed by Pixar .

Awards

At the 2017 Academy Awards , the film was named Best Animated Short Film. At the Annie Awards 2017, the film also received the award for best animated short film.

reception

Benjamin Wang of Film Inquiry wrote, Even if Piper's portrayal is a little sugar-sweet, there is still a bit of life in it thanks to the attention to detail the animators have shown .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Academy Awards 2017. In: oscars.org. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Mike Seymour: The tech of PIXAR part 1: Piper - daring to be different. In: fxguide. January 16, 2017, accessed January 16, 2019 .
  3. ^ Joanna Robinson: Behind the Scenes of Piper , Pixar's Best Short Film in Years. In: Vanity Fair. June 16, 2016, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Sabrina Imbler: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Pixar's New Short Film 'Piper'. In: National Audubon Society. June 17, 2016, accessed January 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ https://renderman.pixar.com/resources/RenderMan_20/tutorialDepthOfField.html
  6. ↑ 46th annual Annie Awards: Legacy. In: Annieawards.org. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Pixar's PIPER: A Sentimental Kind Of Independence. In: Film Inquiry. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .