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The Pixar Podcast is a weekly show that features interviews, film reviews and news stories for Pixar fans and animation students.
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About the Host
Derrick Clements has been writing about entertainment since 2002. You can find more of his work here.
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I like this picture a lot. It was taken just a few weeks before I even conceived The Pixar Podcast as an idea. I made that costume myself, the…
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Tell us your favorite Pixar scene!
I like this picture a lot. It was taken just a few weeks before I even conceived The Pixar Podcast as an idea. I made that costume myself, the…
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099: Animation Students Series 4 – Scott Nicholson
We close out our Animation Student Series with Scott Nicholson, an independent animator working on his first film.
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098: Reactions to The Blue Umbrella and Monsters U Footage
Step inside a press event at Pixar, and hear Greg and Derrick’s reaction to The Blue Umbrella and Monsters University.
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097: Finding Dory, Monsters U cast, and Inside Out
Andrew Stanton will follow up Finding Nemo with Finding Dory. We discuss what this means, along with the latest Pixar news.
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096: Animation Students Series 3 – Instructor Colin Giles
The latest installment in our series aimed at animation students features Colin Giles, a senior instructor of animation, 3D animation and visual effects at Vancouver Film School.
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095: Pixar Indy Projects and Other News
We highlight two very cool unofficial Pixarian projects, talk about the Oscar wins, and catch up on the latest Pixar news.
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094: Animation Students Series 2 – John Herzog
We continue our series focusing on the stories of animation students preparing to enter the industry with an in-depth interview with BYU animation student John Herzog.
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093: Meet the Real Life WALL-E
We go behind the scenes of Mike Senna’s highly accurate real-life WALL-E robot.
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092: Animation Students Series 1 – Jenna Barton
We kick off a new series focusing on the stories of animation students preparing to enter the industry with an in-depth interview with BYU animation student Jenna Barton.
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091: Pixarians, Pixar’s Past, and Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland
We take a look at a 1988 sales demo reel of a Pixar Image Computer and discuss Brad Bird’s upcoming film, Tomorrowland. And we fearlessly defend his co-writer, Damon Lindelof.
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090: Bret Parker
Greg talks with Pixar animator Bret Parker about Brave, her history at Pixar, and women in animation.
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089: The Blue Umbrella, Disney Infinity, ParaNorman, and more
We ring in 2013 with a discussion on the latest Pixar news!
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2012 in Review
We revisit some of this year’s most memorable moments on The Pixar Podcast and I make my most sincere plea for you to chip in and help pay for it….
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088: Finding Nemo on Blu Ray and Teddy Newton Gets a Feature!
We review Finding Nemo’s first time ever on blu ray, in depth. Now, our Pixar blu ray collection is complete. Plus, Day and Night director Teddy Newton is apparently directing a Pixar feature!
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087: Review: Pixar Shorts Vol. 2 and Brave Blu Rays
We review two new blu ray discs from Pixar (and react briefly to the news about Star Wars).
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086: Mark Walsh
Director Mark Walsh talks about the short film Partysaurus Rex.
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085: News and Contest Announcement!
Monsters U launches an awesome “fake” website, Pixar to make a TV special, and more!
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084: Rumor Control
Finding Nemo 2? Brenda Chapman now at LucasFilm? We discuss the Pixar-related rumors that have emerged this summer.
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083: Composer Alex Mandel
Alex Mandel has been at Pixar since 2003. Once they discovered he can write songs, he has been able to put those skills to use on shorts and most recently, on Brave.
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082: La Luna Director Enrico Casarosa
Enrico Casarosa talks about his personal short film, La Luna, as well as his work on Pixar’s upcoming dinosaur film.
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081: Story Artist Louis Gonzales
Pixar story artist Louis Gonzales talks about the story creation on Brave and the Pixar story process.
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080: Mark Andrews 2
I sat down with Mark Andrews on opening day of Brave to discuss his work as director, writer — and lyricist! — on the film.
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079: Review: Brave
Germain Lussier of /Film joins The Pixar Podcast to talk in depth about Pixar’s latest film, Brave.
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078: ‘Brave’ Producer Katherine Sarafian (Pixar Visit #5)
In this episode, Brave producer Katherine Sarafian gives a roundtable Q&A and then an exclusive interview with The Pixar Podcast.