![]() Mullins and Murray had to create an emotional connection. Remember that heart is one of Pixar’s rules of storytelling. On how to make an audience care about JJ: JJ’s desire to keep the toys is the primary conflict of the short. Lou’s purpose expanded to get JJ to return the items he had stolen to the original owners. Mullins dreamed up JJ, a playground bully, who stole toys from other kids. A lost and found box is intended to collect lost items and return them to their owners, which gave Lou a built-in purpose. Mullins noted that John Lasseter has a rule about bringing inanimate objects to life through animation: you have to think about its purpose in the world. On the challenge of bringing a lost and found creature to life: I’m happy to say that Mullins and Murray shared a lot of non-spoiler details about their process of making this short film! ![]() I don’t want to give away any spoilers, so I’m keeping a lot of specific details about Lou to myself. when a toy-stealing bully ruins recess for kids on a playground, only one thing stands in his way: the Lost and Found box. Lou is about a lost-and-found box and the unseen creature within. I’ve seen the short film three times, and I have to say, the story of Lou is fantastic! Lou has all of Pixar’s storytelling elements. It makes sense that Pixar uses structure and priorities within their creative process to create only the best films, and that there are common threads throughout every single project. Up till that point, I didn’t understand that the requirements of a Pixar story were so simple to identify. Hearing this list of guidelines was an aha moment for me. Animation: The Pixar movie must be animated.Setting: Pixar movies must be able to transport the audience to a place that is exciting and new.Entertainment: The story has to be unpredictable and funny.The main character is flawed and he or she experiences personal growth. Pixar films create an emotional connection. ![]() The Pixar rules of storytelling go a long way in explaining what any story idea (including those 5-minute shorts) has to have in order for it to even be considered as a potential project. It was there that Mullins explained the basic Pixar rules of storytelling. Last weekend I attended a presentation with Dave Mullins and Dana Murray, the director and producer of Pixar’s newest animated short, Lou. Why did I find them to be so wonderful? Why did everyone seem to love them? What sort of magic does Pixar do? It turns out it’s all because of Pixar and the rules of storytelling. I’m not sure when it happened (probably when I got my first taste of the behind-the-scenes details at the Brave premiere back in 2012), but I slowly started wanting to know the why behind my love for the movies. They thoroughly entertained me, and it was enough. Until a few years ago, I was happy just loving Pixar films. I’ve loved every single one since seeing Toy Story for the first time so many years ago. It’s no secret that Disney and Pixar make magical movies. ![]()
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