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Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...

Pixar Animation Studios presents their new short The Blue Umbrella, directed by Saschka Unseld. What a beautiful poster. Premiering at the Berlin Film Festival currently underway in Germany as we ...

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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 ...

All it took was one rainy day in Los Angeles for Pixar layout artist Saschka Unseld to sprout an idea. While standing outside, Unseld, who had already worked on a number of Pixar films including “Toy ...

Most people find the rain annoying. Saschka Unseld is not most people. The filmmaker and animator made the Pixar short film "The Blue Umbrella," an ode to all things precipitation. "I thought what I ...

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. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor This random ...

It was only a 25-second clip. Two sentient umbrellas, apparently of opposite umbrella-genders, take note of one another on a crowded city sidewalk. And that’s about all that happens. Yet, there was ...

And in the midst, two umbrellas – one blue, one not – fall eternally in love. From Pixar Animation Studios, director Saschka Unseld (conceived and directed by one of its technical artists) and ...