Bill Reeves

The Pixar Shorts: A Short History

Tony Kaplan, Erica Milsom

Eben Ostby, Ralph Guggenheim

The story of Pixar's early short films illuminates not only the evolution of the company but also the early days of computer animation, when a small group of artists and scientists shared a single computer in a hallway, and struggled to create emotionally compelling short films.

Flags and Waves

Alain Fournier, Bill Reeves

This film test is a demonstration of Pixar's early attempts to research, analyze and recreate qualities of motion, shading and lighting that make water believable. Said techniques are later expanded upon in "Finding Nemo"

Blowin' in the Wind

Bill Reeves

Bob Dylan

Blowin' in the Wind is a 1985 short animated film directed by Bill Reeves that was made as an animation test at Lucasfilm for what would eventually become Pixar. It is of a field of grass blowing in the wind below a blue sky set to Bob Dylan's iconic song.