List of Pixar shorts

This is a list of

animated short films produced by Pixar Animation Studios

Beginning with Pixar's first film Toy Story, almost all subsequent Pixar feature films have been shown in theaters along with a Pixar-created original short film, known as a "short." Other Pixar shorts, released only on home media, were created to showcase Pixar's technology or cinematic capabilities, or on commission for clients.

Pixar began producing shorts in the 1980s.^[1] The first shorts were made while Pixar was still a computer hardware company, when John Lasseter was the only professional animator in the company's small animation department. Starting with Geri's Game, after Pixar had converted into an animation studio, all later shorts have been produced with a larger crew and budget.

Pixar produced four

Surprise, Up and Down, and Front and Back.^[2]

During the development of Toy Story, Pixar set up a division to work on Pixar video games called Pixar's Interactive Products Group, specifically Toy Story entries in the Disney's Animated Storybook and Disney's Activity Center. Due to the intense resources required, the division was eventually folded and the staff were redistributed to start creating short films to accompany Pixar's theatrical releases.^[3]^[4]

Beginning with A Bug's Life, Pixar has created extra content for each of their films that are not part of the main story. For their early theatrical releases, this content was in the form of

outtakes and appeared as part of the film's credits

. For each of their films, this content was a short made exclusively for the DVD release of the film.

Toy Story 4 was the first film not to have a theatrical short before it. Coco and Onward had theatrical shorts from other subsidiaries related to Disney. Luca, Turning Red and Lightyear had no theatrical shorts before them.^[5] Elemental was the first film, released theatrically in the United States, to have a Pixar-produced short in front of it since Incredibles 2.^[6]

Shorts

Original short films

Title	Year	Director(s)	Initial release with		Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Title	Year	Director(s)	Theatrical	Home^[a]/Premiere	Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
The Adventures of André & Wally B.^[b]	1984	Alvy Ray Smith	Toy Story
Luxo Jr.	1986	John Lasseter	Toy Story 2^[7]		Nominated
Red's Dream	1987
Tin Toy	1988			Toy Story	Won
Knick Knack	1989		Finding Nemo^[8]
Geri's Game	1997	Jan Pinkava	A Bug's Life		Won
For the Birds	2000	Ralph Eggleston	Monsters, Inc. (first release) Luca (second release)	Monsters, Inc.	Won
Boundin'	2003	Bud Luckey	The Incredibles		Nominated
One Man Band	2006	Andrew Jimenez and Mark Andrews	Cars
Lifted	2007	Gary Rydstrom	Ratatouille
Presto	2008	Doug Sweetland	WALL-E
Partly Cloudy	2009	Peter Sohn	Up		Shortlisted^[9]
Day & Night^[10]	2010	Teddy Newton	Toy Story 3		Nominated
La Luna^[11]	2011	Enrico Casarosa	Brave		Nominated
The Blue Umbrella^[12]	2013	Saschka Unseld	Monsters University
Lava^[13]	2014	James Ford Murphy	Inside Out
Sanjay's Super Team^[14]	2015	Sanjay Patel	The Good Dinosaur		Nominated
Piper^[15]	2016	Alan Barillaro	Finding Dory		Won
Lou^[16]	2017	David Mullins	Cars 3		Nominated
Bao^[17]	2018	Domee Shi	Incredibles 2		Won

Feature-related

Title	Year	Director(s)	Initial release with		Associated Feature Film	Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Title	Year	Director(s)	Theatrical	Home^[a]/Premiere	Associated Feature Film	Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Mike's New Car	2002	Pete Docter and Roger Gould		Monsters, Inc.		Nominated
Exploring the Reef	2003	Roger Gould		Finding Nemo
Jack-Jack Attack	2005	Brad Bird		The Incredibles
Mr. Incredible and Pals	2005	Roger Gould		The Incredibles
Mater and the Ghostlight	2006	John Lasseter		Cars
Your Friend the Rat	2007	Jim Capobianco		Ratatouille
BURN-E	2008	Angus MacLane		WALL-E
Dug's Special Mission	2009	Ronnie del Carmen		Up
George and A.J.	2009	Josh Cooley		Up
The Legend of Mor'du^[18]	2012	Brian Larsen		Brave
Party Central^[19]	2013	Kelsey Mann	Muppets Most Wanted	Disney Movies Anywhere	Monsters University
Riley's First Date?^[20]^[21]	2015	Josh Cooley		Inside Out
Marine Life Interviews	2016	Ross Haldane Stevenson		Finding Dory
Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool^[22]	2017	James Ford Murphy		Cars 3
Dante's Lunch	2017	Jason Katz		Coco
Auntie Edna^[23]	2018	Ted Mathot		Incredibles 2
Lamp Life^[24]^[25]	2020	Valerie LaPointe		Disney+	Toy Story 4
22 vs. Earth^[26]	2021	Kevin Nolting			Soul
Ciao Alberto^[27]	2021	McKenna Harris			Luca

SparkShorts series

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Title	Year	Director(s)	Premiered	Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film
Purl^[28]^[29]	2019	Kristen Lester	YouTube
Smash and Grab^[30]^[31]^[29]		Brian Larsen	YouTube
Kitbull^[29]		Rosana Sullivan	YouTube Theatrical with Turning Red	Nominated
Float^[29]		Bobby Alcid Rubio	Disney+
Wind^[29]		Edwin Chang
Loop^[29]	2020	Erica Milsom
Out^[29]		Steven Clay Hunter		Shortlisted^[32]
Burrow^[33]		Madeline Sharafian	Theatrical with Soul	Nominated
Twenty Something^[34]	2021	Aphton Corbin	Disney+
Nona^[34]	2021	Louis Gonzales
Self^[35]	2024	Searit Kahsay Huluf

Title	Associated Feature Film	Year(s)	Director(s)	Premiere
To Fitness and Beyond	Toy Story 4	2021	Adam Rodriguez	Disney+
Unparalleled Parking	Cars 3		James Ford Murphy
Dory Finding	Finding Dory		Michal Makarewicz
Soul of the City	Soul		Christopher Chua
Fluffy Stuff with Ducky and Bunny: Love	Toy Story 4		Robert H. Russ
Chore Day the Incredibles Way	Incredibles 2		Alan Barillaro
A Day in the Life of the Dead	Coco		Allison Rutland
Fluffy Stuff with Ducky and Bunny: Three Heads	Toy Story 4		Robert H. Russ
Dancing with the Cars	Cars 3		Juan Carlos Navarro Carrión
Cookie Num Num	Incredibles 2		Jae Hyung Kim

Title	Year	Director(s)	Premiered
Rescue Squad Mater	2008	John Lasseter	Toon Disney
Mater the Greater
El Materdor
Tokyo Mater^[36]			Theatrical with Bolt
Unidentified Flying Mater	2009		Disney Channel
Monster Truck Mater	2010
Heavy Metal Mater
Moon Mater^[37]		Robert Gibbs	Blu-ray with Mater's Tall Tales
Mater Private Eye^[38]			Blu-ray with Mater's Tall Tales
Air Mater^[39]	2011		DVD + Blu-ray with Cars 2
Time Travel Mater^[40]	2012		Disney Channel

Title	Year	Director(s)	Premiered
Hiccups	2013	Jeremy Lasky	Disney Channel
Bugged
Spinning
The Radiator Springs 500½	2014	Robert Gibbs	Disney Movies Anywhere

Title	Year(s)	Director(s)	Premiered
What Is Money?	2019	Bob Peterson	Disney+
What Is a Friend?
What Is Art?
What Is Time?
What Is Love?
What Is a Computer?
What Is a Leader?
What Is a Pet?
What Is Cheese?	2020
What Is Reading?	2020

List of Pixar shorts

Shorts

Original short films

Feature-related

SparkShorts series

Pixar Popcorn

Notes

Short series

Cars Toons

Mater's Tall Tales

Tales from Radiator Springs

Toy Story Toons

Forky Asks a Question

Dug Days

Cars on the Road

Compilations

Other work

Animation tests

Commercials

Co-op Program

See also

References

External links

Title	Year(s)	Director(s)	Premiered
Dino Park	2022	Steve Purcell	Disney+
Lights Out		Steve Purcell
Salt Fever		Brian Fee
The Legend		Brian Fee
Show Time		Bobby Podesta
Trucks		Bobby Podesta
B-Movie		Brian Fee
Road Rumblers		Steve Purcell
Gettin’ Hitched		Bobby Podesta

Compilation title	Release date	Format
Tiny Toy Stories	October 29, 1996	VHS
Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1	November 6, 2007	DVD, Blu-ray, Digital download
Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales	November 2, 2010
Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 2	November 13, 2012
Toy Story of Terror!/Toy Story Toons	August 19, 2014	DVD, Blu-ray
Cars Toons: Bonus Disc	2013	DVD
The Radiator Springs 500½	2014	DVD
Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 3	November 13, 2018	DVD, Blu-ray, Digital download

Title	Year
Blowin' in the Wind^[49]	1985
Beach Chair^[50]	1986
Flags and Waves^[50]	1986
Volume Visualization with the Pixar Image Computer^[51]	1987

Title	Year	Commissioned for
Dance of the Waterlilies	1989	Toppan Printing
Wake Up^[52]	1989	Tropicana
Babies	1990	Life Savers
Galaxy		Toppan Printing
Dancing Cards		California Lottery
Quite a Package^[52]		Trident
La Nouvelle Polo		Volkswagen
Pump		Pillsbury
Boxer^[52]		Listerine
Light & Heavy and Surprise^[2]	1991	Sesame Street
Cracks		Fleischmann's
Moving Target		Cellular One
Gummie Savers Conga-Clio-award winner		Life Savers
Life At The Beach		Life Savers
Orange Kiwi Passion		Tropicana
Warehouse
Three Fruits Dancing
Grand Opening		Toys "R" Us
Lunchbox		Tetra Pak
Knight		Listerine
Introduction^[53]		Apple Mac Classic
Interview	1992	Volkswagen Polo
Swinging Bottle^[52]		Listerine
Daydream		Tetra Pak
Balloon		Kellogg's All-Bran
Hourglass		Kellogg's All-Bran
Chomp Chomp		IncrediBites^{[citation needed]}
Ladybug		La Poste
In the Mood		Bunn Coffee Makers
Cello	1993	Kellogg's All-Bran
Sprinkler		Kellogg's All-Bran
Up and Down^[2]		Sesame Street
Hungry		Bank South^{[citation needed]}
Chase		Bank South^{[citation needed]}
Stranded		Tetra Pak
Bursting		Carefree
Chuckling Straws		Fresca
Launching Magic		Jordan Magic Toothbrush^{[citation needed]}
Ideas at Work		Dow Corning
Arrows-Clio-award winner	1994	Listerine