Some new details about Pixar\u2019s next short \u2018LOU\u2019 have surfaced this week on CinemaBlend in the form of \u201c5 fascinating facts\u201d.<\/a>
\nLOU will feature a soundtrack written by Christophe Beck, who composed the memorable scores for Frozen and the Disney short Paperman, so we\u2019re definitely in for a treat. By using a very interesting \u2018round\u2019 method, with musicians exhibiting great coordination skills, the soundtrack is sure to sound amazingly unique.
\nIn addition to this, many of us will have already seen the character J.J.\u2019s design: he appears in the background of Inside Out in Riley\u2019s classroom! It\u2019s not unusual for Pixar to recycle previously rendered characters and objects (a certain pizza delivery truck comes to mind).
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\nPerhaps most excitingly, in response to the initial pitch for LOU, John Lasseter is reported to have said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis character looks like a pain in the ass to do, let\u2019s make it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s always inspiring to see Pixar deliberately tackling challenges like this. LOU is a character made up of a mass of lost and found objects, and it\u2019s easy to understand how difficult it must have been to animate him as a single living thing and not a collection of disconnected items. They\u2019ve succeeded in doing this in the past \u2013 think of the school of fish in Finding Nemo, or the cute Lego character in Toy Story of Terror, or even the 7 limbs of Hank the septopus in Finding Dory – but animating LOU may just be their most impressive effort yet.
\nEver since A Bug\u2019s Life, all Pixar feature-length films have been coupled with original short films. The creation of these shorts is a way of encouraging creativity within the studio, and providing new and upcoming directors with confidence and experience. It\u2019s clearly become a tradition that Pixar are particularly proud of, especially with their new internal short film project.<\/a> It therefore comes as no surprise that the short film preceding the main feature is often equally as magical and compelling. Cars 3 is being released in North American theatres in just a fortnight, but the simultaneous release of LOU is just as exciting! \u00ad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some new details about Pixar\u2019s next short \u2018LOU\u2019 have surfaced this week on CinemaBlend in the form of \u201c5 fascinating facts\u201d. LOU will feature a soundtrack written by Christophe Beck, who composed the memorable scores for Frozen and the Disney short Paperman, so we\u2019re definitely in for a treat. By using a very interesting \u2018round\u2019 …<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,221,2,6,50],"tags":[240,172,241,158,242],"yoast_head":"\n