While Disney Feature Animation has been eager to trumpet its new shorts program by occasionally giving us peeks at its upcoming slate, Pixar has been less forthcoming about the projects in its pipeline. With the release of WALL-E growing ever closer, Jerry Beck has given us a glimpse at what will accompany that film to theaters. Presto, directed by Doug Sweetland, is the name of the new short and all I know about it is what can be divined by the still above, which Beck scanned from a flier for the Hiroshima International Animation Festival. What can I say? I’m sold already. The short is Sweetland’s directorial debut; he formerly served at Pixar as a supervising animator. Just one more reason why June 27th can’t come soon enough…
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