By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor This random moment inspired a short that follows an emotive umbrella, which makes its theatrical debut on June 21, preceding Pixar’s Monsters University.

When I was given the opportunity to talk with the team behind the latest Pixar short, The Blue Umbrella, at SXSW I gladly set the time aside. Speaking with director Saschka Unseld (who last worked as ...

Yeah. The Blue Umbrella was all animated. There is no bit of live action anywhere in the film. What was the path that led you to make the movie? I started in 2008 at Pixar, and I started in the ...

It's called The Blue Umbrella and the first introduction includes mention of the rather interesting director, Saschka Unseld, who pitched his way up from the technical artists section of Pixar ...

“Disney Pixar did that?” That’s the reaction director Sachka Unseld is hoping audiences will have to The Blue Umbrella, the short film paired with Monsters University. Where’s the ...

Learn More 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 ...

When you pitch a story at Pixar, you’re told to come in with three ideas. So Unseld did as he was told and in early 2011, he showed up with three ideas. “For The Blue Umbrella, I came in with ...

If you see Monsters University this weekend, you’ll be treated to Pixar’s newest short: The Blue Umbrella. It’s love story between two umbrellas who meet on a rainy evening, with a ...

But The Blue Umbrella possesses an urban aesthetic all ... It was also useful to work more in compositing than Pixar is accustomed to. This made it go faster and easier to play with more painterly ...

I got a chance to see the first 40 minutes of “Monsters University” earlier this month at Pixar along with the studio’s first photo-realistic looking short, “The Blue Umbrella.” ...

By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor This random moment inspired a short that follows an emotive umbrella, which makes its theatrical debut on June 21, preceding Pixar’s Monsters University.