JV - Haha – no problem! I also can’t wait to watch it. I looks absolutely
hilarious. Will this be the longest Pixar short ever produced, besides [i]Mater and the
Ghostlight[/i]?
I don’t think so.
Thanks for the clip, Mitch! I can’t wait to see it in the theatre. And it will
definitely win the Best Animated Short Film Academy Award!
Good find, Mitch! Wow, Lifted
looks great! The humour is so Pixar-esque, and the animation is beautiful. I really can’t wait to be able to see
the entire short.
Haha ! 
This
is awesome ! So, I wasn’t the only one to think that the farmer looks like Linguini, huh ?
Great find
Mitch ! 
Thanks for that great clip; it made me even more eager to
watch Lifted 
No problem! I’m glad you all
liked it.
JV - Hmm…maybe I was thinking of another short, then. 'Cause
Mater and the Ghostlight is…what?..eight minutes? That would make
Lifted the second longest Pixar featurette. Cool.
Archibald - Ya’ know, I wonder if Linguini was modeled after the farmer? I
imagine they did Lifted before or during their production on
Ratatouille, so maybe they decided to “borrow” one of their characters
from the short, change his design a little bit, and then place him in Ratatouille?
That, or maybe the exact contrary. If I remember correctly, we can see a modified car
from Cars, a modified Gurgle and the dentist’s arm from [i]Finding
Nemo[/i] in Boundin’.
I think they did Linguini before, and then
Gary Rydstrom needed a human character for Lifted, and they didn’t have enough time
to create one.
The big green alien looks like his name should be
“Bub” or “Bubba”.
Archibald - Yeah, that could have been it, as
well. We’ll have to take a closer look at him when we see the final result in theaters.
JV - Hahah – yeah. I thought he kind of looked like the boss frog in
Flushed Away.
I for one refuse to watch the clip. I don’t wanna spoil the short
for when I view it with Ratatouille.
~~=oP
PixarVixen - Yeah, it does spoil a whole twenty-two seconds of film to viewers, so
if you want to be surprised, then don’t watch the clip. But I have to tell you that it looks great…
Oh I’m sure it
does, and it’s tempting, but I’m still gonna pass on it.
~~=oP
No, I’m pretty sure Tin Toy and [i]Geri’s Game
[/i]were both over 5 minutes long, so that would make Lifted at least the
forth-longest. I could be wrong about that, though.
Anyway, I broke down and watched the clip, despite
telling myself I would wait until Ratatouille to see it, and I have to say now that I’m more excited for this
short than I was for any other short film Pixar has created so far. I busted up laughing in the middle of the
clip, and was chuckling throughout the rest of it. I watched it several more times, and I laughed every time.
If I’m enjoying this 22 seconds so much, I can’t wait to see the final product!
Good idea. I will
try to do that too. I did it when One Man Band was released. I’ll do the same for lifted.
I know! I love spoilers, so I immediately “ran” to the site to see
what they had… it’s brilliant.
[spoil]I love it when the instructor just looked at the
“kid” and clicked his pen. Just the look on his face and the way he clicked his pen said so much!
Genius.[/spoil]
Oh, wow, this short looks great. I love how it humanizes something unknown and otherwise terrifying…Think
Monsters Inc. with aliens. 
Oooh, and the ANIMATION! The colors! The lighting! The blubbery movement
of the teachers’ arm! Waaagh!
KE- Pixar may be the masters of animation, and
story-telling, and…well…everything! 
But one thing they can definitely do is put an expression on
anything’s face (be it human or alien) so that people can immediately understand what they’re thinking.
I love the face that the alien made when he screwed up - made me think of some of Mr. Incredible’s
expressions.
The instructor is the character used in the ‘Wiggly Splines’ paper at
graphics.pixar.com/indexAuthorKass.html according to Wikipedia.