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 ...

The Blue Umbrella is the first Pixar short to be directed by a member of the technical team as opposed to the creative one. Camera and staging artist Saschka Unseld was listening to Jaffe’s music on a ...

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 ...

Lately, it’s starting to feel like Pixar’s short films are the best part of the company’s output, especially after “La Luna” blew all our minds. This summer, we’re getting another short Pixar film, ...

The Wall Street Journal has unveiled a first look at Pixar's new short film, THE BLUE UMBRELLA. The short is coming to theaters, alongside the highly anticipated animated comedy MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, ...

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 ...

Saschka Unseld, who conceived and directed the Pixar short “The Blue Umbrella,” has moved to the East Coast to become the creative director of Passion New York, A new website called “The Blue Umbrella ...

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 ...