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Beach Chair (film test)
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Wikipedia article
'Beach Chair' is a short computer animation test clip created by animator Eben Ostby for Pixar in 1986. It depicts a chair walking across the sand, dipping its leg into the water, and then moving along. 2009 Vintage Books edition: , p. 91. [https://books.google.com/books?id=6ium9aok5yMC&pg=PA91 Excerpt available] at Google Books. Ostby made the project with the feedback of John Lasseter to work out details of rendering software.
It was exhibited at SIGGRAPH in Dallas in 1986, along with Lasseters landmark computer animated short 'Luxo Jr.' and another test project, 'Flags and Waves' by Bill Reeves.A.M. Buckley, 'Pixar: The Company and Its Founders' (ABDO, 2011), , p.39. [https://archive.org/details/pixarcompanyitsf0000buck/page/39 Excerpt available] at Google Books. 'Beach Chair' can also be found as an Easter egg in 'Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 1', which was released in 2007.
Plot
'Beach Chair' is a short about a chair on the beach watching the sea. The chair goes to the border of the sea and it touches the water. It feels the water to be too cold, so it starts turning away from the beach.
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Category:1986 films
Category:Pixar short films
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Category:1980s American animated films
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Category:Films set on beaches
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