Piper - The Pixar Animated Short better than the Movie that it Premiered with

I remember going to the theater earlier this summer, eager to re-live my near perfect experience watching the original "Finding Nemo" through "Finding Dory". Sadly, it was what should have been a straight to dvd sequel in my opinion, it couldn't even come close to a mediocre Pixar film. But I did go a second time not to watch Finding Dory again, but because of the short film Piper which came before the movie's opening. In fact, the second time I went I left after Piper was over. So, what makes Piper such an amazing short? Well everything, from hyper realistic animation that still retains a artistic style, to score, to the beautifully captivated story told without a single word. In all reality it had more of what made Finding Nemo great than Finding Dory. Piper has the sense of adventure, a child that wants to discover beyond the shore, and a child that discovers that he/she can do something no one else had done before him/her that helps everyone.

See Nemo was focused on wandering the depths of the sea, it was focused on the journey, rather than the destination and I feel as if Piper did the same. Piper never had solidified answers to the problem at hand only small discoveries at a time, for instance the baby bird in the beginning hadn't even been near the water, and by the end he slowly discovers how to locate clams to eat. Where Finding Dory only focused on getting to the destination through convenient plot points Piper and Nemo focus on discovery and journeys without a super specific destination, but that is another blog. I am focussing on Piper in this blog.

Piper also has the ability to do something neither Nemo nor Dory could do. Create an environment that mirrors reality, while still putting their own Pixar touch to the characters. Piper is something you potentially could witness on a beach, it is super real both graphically and in the way the story is told. While you might not see a baby seagull dive underwater to discover the location of shells, you will see seagulls act similarly to how they move, shout, and generally interact. If anything it inspired me to go to Lincoln City that very weekend, (see I could do things like that in Oregon, so sorry Midwesterners, this won't be a direct connection for you.) and grab a cup of coffee and just watch the Ocean waves, Seagulls, crabs, and people all interact. It my experience doing that was very simular, although not created to spur feels in the aduince, I noticed the behaviors of the short film and real costal segulls were similar.

There is a link to the trailer below...