The Adventures of André & Wally B.
1984 animated short film by Alvy Ray Smith / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Adventures of André & Wally B. (or simply André & Wally B.[1]) is a 1984 American animated short film produced by the Lucasfilm Computer Graphics Project, a division of Lucasfilm and the predecessor of Pixar. The short was groundbreaking by the standards of the time and helped spark the film industry's interest in computer animation.
The Adventures of André & Wally B. | |
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Directed by | Alvy Ray Smith |
Written by | Alvy Ray Smith (concept) |
Produced by | John Lasseter |
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Distributed by | Lucasfilm |
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Running time | 2 minutes |
Country | United States |
The animation in the film was by John Lasseter and was his first computer-animated project with Lucasfilm. Partially as a result of the success of this project, and others that followed, Lasseter became an executive at Pixar. The film was released on July 25, 1984, at SIGGRAPH in Minneapolis. The short was later released in theaters with Toy Story in 1995.[2][3]