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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A constant treat to any Pixar film is the short in front of the feature. While some have mixed feelings about the latest feature-length works from the studio, the shorts have been a consistent bright ...

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 ...

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 ...

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