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Concept art work by John Lasseter for The Adventures of André and Wally B. (1984)

Concept art work by John Lasseter for The Adventures of André and Wally B. (1984)

            American postcard by Disney Enterprises /  Pixar Animation Studios, 2005. Image: Pixar Animation Studios. Concept art work by John Lasseter for The Adventures of André and Wally B. (Alvy Ray Smith, 1984). From 'The Art of Pixar: 100 Collectible Postcards, published by Chronicle Books.

The short The Adventures of André and Wally B. (Alvy Ray Smith, 1984) or André and Wally B. is a pioneering 3D animation from the people who would go onto become Pixar. A brainless android, André,  wakes up to be taunted by a large bee, Wally B. The Adventures of André and Wally B. is generally considered to be the first 3D animation with a plot. Needless to say, it's an important movie. 

The Adventures of André and Wally B.  is the CG animation equivalent of the first flight of the Wright Brothers, which lasted only 12 seconds). Much like that famous first flight in 1903, this 1984 film paved the way for all that has followed. 
 Dawn, the forest. André is waking up. Soon, Wally is taunting him. André points the other way and, with Wally temporarily distracted, runs off. Wally quickly catches on and chases André... John Lasseter made this film to entertain his children; ironically, it frightened them instead. 

The Adventures of André and Wally B. is not the first CG animation ever made, but it is the first to feature a plot, characterisation and expression, motion blur, and deformations (e.g. stretching, squashing). When it was demonstrated at the 1984 SIGGRAPH there was a crowd response bordering on hysteria, as nothing even close to this had ever been done before. Martin Hafer at IMDb: " In this context, ANDRE AND WALLY B is absolutely amazing and breathtaking. The Pixar folks were not yet a big company but just a few individuals doing work on huge computers and they had to design all the software themselves!! And, in spite of all this, the graphics were lovely and the story of a cute bee quite watchable--even though it was really more an experimental film than anything else." 

Sources: Martin Hafer (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.

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