Tortoise and the Hare by Brad Bird

bluebomber95 · January 5, 2010, 3:00am

Hey guys. I’m a huge Pixar fan, but haven’t been on these forums much. I was just wondering if anyone knew where I could find some animation, frames, or any material from Brad Bird’s first short, based on the Tortoise and the Hare. I remember seeing a bit of it somewhere, but I just can’t recall. Thanks, and have a nice day!

MONS_ER · January 6, 2010, 1:43am

Q. You started animating as a kid what drew you to it?
A. I started drawing at the age of three and I didn’t figure this out until later but the the first drawing I did were sequential.
I would tell the story while I was doing this and I think in my own crude three-year-old way I was trying to do movies.
I loved animated shows when I was a kid. I saw movies many times when it was not very common for people to see movies, before video.
Around the age of 11, it occurred to me that someone was making these things happen and there was an actual job that people went in with adult intelligence and analyse what a stuffed panther might look like.
It flabergasted me and it amazed me and it made me think that adults weren’t nearly as dull as I thought they were.
I asked how do you do that, how would someone like me do that, and I happened to be with a guy who took an animation class at college and he explained to me that you need an animation camera that shots a single frame at a time.
So my dad got a camera that shot single frame and I started shooting a movie. It was called The Tortoise and the Hare it was the same story but it was more like a Road Runner film.
The tortoise was the bad guy trying to catch the hair and it ends in a five-way tie so it’s not the usual version. It took me three years to make that film and it’s 15 minutes long.
So you can see me learning animation over the course of that. And I sent it to Disney and it just went from there.

theres an answer from a q and a he had.
indielondon.co.uk/film/incre … dQ&A2.html
he was talking about the tortoise and the hare on the ratatouille dvd, there were a few frames, if i remember correctly, that were shown.

1986 · January 8, 2010, 1:24am

Actually, I think that clip was shown in The Pixar Story. It’s featured on the WALL-E deluxe DVD and the Blu-ray.

Angelnumber25 · January 13, 2010, 6:30am

I’m pretty sure it’s on the Fine Food and Film segment on the Ratatouille DVD. I just watched The Pixar Story the other night (1st time, love the WALL-E bonus features ) but I am 95% sure it’s on the Ratatouille DVD…