Some days ago I saw a very cool post on Cartoon Brew. Amid Amidi is currently writing a book about the Pixar shorts and decided to share some of the things he discovered.

One of those things is a making of the first Pixar short ever (even before Pixar got its name): The Adventures of Andre and Wally-B. It's from 1984, animated by no more no less than John Lasseter.

While looking almost amateurish by todays standards, we have to look at it and remember its historical context. It was a revolution for the way people looked at computer based animation. Until that release, very few believed that it could be possible to make 'traditional' character animation with a computer.

Another cool things are the commercials Pixar produced during early nineties. The last two of them I had already seen but not the first ones. It is actually pretty hard to find the Pixar commercials on YouTube, because of all the 'trash' on the result set: those animations that, only because they're 3D, the responsible for the upload just writes 'Pixar' on the title or tags, like this one.

And now a break for the commercials: