What It's Like to Make a Pixar Animated Short Film

From "For the Birds" to "Lava," just about everyone has seen and been moved by a Pixar short film paired with one of the studio's blockbuster movies.

But what goes into making one of those shorts within Pixar's studio process? With a new short film, Lou, about to be released with Cars 3, I sat down with director Dave Mullins and producer Dana Murray for an inside look at the process of making a Pixar short film.

Employees within Pixar are encouraged to go to development and say they'd love to pitch ideas for a film. Mullins, whose day job is an Animation Supervisor at Pixar, first started pitching concepts for shorts in 2005.

"Along with the career of animating, the Animation Supervisor, I've been writing and pitching ideas forever. They let you pitch three idea," explained Mullins. "I did multiple pitches. I pitched, like I said, since 2005, and in 2012 I pitched an idea that really caught on and then we started developing that."

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