While we already know the short that will be screening in front of Pixar’s Inside Out here this July (Lava, a clip from which you can see here), the company has now announced the film that will be attached to its late 2015 release, The Good Dinosaur. Take a look at the first picture from Sanjay’s Super Team.
It’s the directorial debut of Sanjay Patel, an artist who has worked in character design and animation at the studio since A Bug’s Life. After working on movies such as The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Monsters University, he’s bringing to life a story based on his own childhood.
Growing up in California in the 1980s as the child of Indian immigrants, his world was a blend of the superheroes he loved to watch in cartoons on TV and his parents’ strong religion. So the short follows him as a youngster combining both worlds, seeing an ancient, Hindu take on the Avengers, with the gods as superheroes bringing colour and life into his world. "If I could, I would go back to the 1980s and give my younger self this short," Patel tells the LA Times. "I want to normalize and bring a young brown boy's story to the pop culture zeitgeist. To have a broad audience like Pixar's see this... It is a big deal. I'm so excited about that."
Patel pitched the short to John Lasseter and others at the studio back in 2012 and it’ll premiere at this year’s Annecy International Animation Festival in France this June ahead of The Good Dinosaur’s UK release in November.
from Empire News
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