Animation World Magazine has a very good article on the new Pixar short, Presto.

Everybody nows the Pixar tradition of releasing shorts before their feature films. They are made as a way of developing technical goodies and for preparing new talents.

Doug Sweetland, a Pixar animator veteran who worked on every feature movie made by the studio, now sits on the director chair. On the article, he says how this short is influenced by classics like Tom & Jerry or Chuck Jones' Long Haired Hare.

Another very good reason to be counting seconds until Wall-E premiere. ;)