Pixar’s New Short ‘The Blue Umbrella’ Takes a Photoreal Approach. A departure from the stylized animation that we're used to seeing from Pixar, the below image of a city street on a rainy ...

A blue umbrella meets a red umbrella on the street, by chance. The blue umbrella tries to get back to the red umbrella, but it gets blown around and weather-beaten during a rainstorm.

Saschka Unseld’s The Blue Umbrella--the photo-realistic short that precedes Monsters University--goes beyond the proven Pixar formula to explore new definitions of animation.

Pixar executives liked the story so much, they decide to make “The Blue Umbrella” the studio’s 12th short animated film to coincide with the theatrical release of a Pixar feature.

In January, Pixar released a clip of its upcoming short "The Blue Umbrella," which got people talking. Now director Saschka Unseld talks to Co.Create about how its unique effects were achieved and ...

It all began for technical director Saschka Unseld (Brave, Toy Story 3) when he got depressed seeing a discarded umbrella in a San Francisco gutter.One thing led to another and suddenly the German ...

A departure from the stylized animation that we’re used to seeing from Pixar, the below image of a city street on a rainy night is a fully CG creation.

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 ...