Red's dream

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Movie
Original title Red's Dream
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 4 minutes
Rod
Director John Lasseter
script John Lasseter
production John Lasseter
music David Slusser

Red's Dream is a four minute animated short film produced by Pixar in 1987 . It is Pixar's only film made on the Pixar Image Computer and the first to contain an organic character.

action

On a rainy night there is a red unicycle called Red in the special offer corner of Eben's Bikes , a bicycle shop. While the camera approaches Red, the rain seems to turn into a drum roll and the scene changes to the clown Lumpy, who drives into a circus arena on Red to moderate applause. Lumpy starts juggling three balls, but every now and then drops a ball, which is inexplicably passed back to him. If the ball is thrown particularly far, it becomes clear that the unicycle saved juggling . The clown falls to the ground realizing he is practically riding in the air, but Red catches the remaining dropped balls and finishes the act to thunderous applause. But then the clapping turns back into the sound of the rain and Red wakes up from his dream. Depressed, he returns to the corner with the special offers.

particularities

John Lasseter jokingly describes the short film as from Pixar's Blue Period , due to the sad mood and the lack of a happy ending . There are some references to previous Pixar shorts: André from The Adventures of André and Wally B. is on the clock face in the bike shop and The little lamp reminds Luxo on the desk and the floor of the circus arena in the dream sequence. The shop is named after Eben Ostby , a Pixar employee and avid cyclist . Technically, the short film contains many improvements in the area of ​​computer animation. With the ChapReyes rendering software used, the Pixar Image Computer shortened the calculations for the individual frames by a factor of 18. A conventional computer at that time would have needed around 9 months to calculate the almost two-minute dream sequence. Red's dream was published at SIGGRAPH 1987 as well as on the Tiny-Toy-Stories VHS cassette.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pixar Talk: Red's Dream . June 3, 2009.
  2. ↑ John Lasseter on Pixar's early days . insidemovies.ew.com (Inside Movies). Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  3. ^ Ars Electronica Archive . Retrieved July 8, 2012. Unavailable January 2016.
  4. ↑ Red's Dream . www.aec.at (Ars Electronica). Retrieved July 7, 2012.