Pixar's godparents caught on tape before CGI ate their world.
A PBS documentary from around 1982 about San Francisco bay area animators. It features Marcy Page, Jeff Hale, Sally Cruikshank, Bud Luckey, Rudy Zamora, John Korty, Vince Collins, Drew Takahashi
Direction
Vérité access to artists in their chaotic natural habitats.
Production
PBS budget somehow makes everything feel more authentic.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bud Luckey later designed Woody for Toy Story and voiced Rick Dicker in The Incredibles—this is literally his origin story.
This crew represented the last gasp of independent cel animation before California's industry collapsed and rebuilt itself around computers.
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