For the Birds (2000)

Director:

Ralph Eggleston

Release Date:

2 November 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Short | Comedy | Family

Plot:

A group of snooty birds roosting on a telephone wire get their just desserts when a goofy bird drops in.

Plot Keywords:

Bird | CGI Animation | Bird Loses Feathers | Computer Animation | Animal In Title

Awards:

Won Oscar. Another 6 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Ralph Eggleston

...

Bird (voice) (uncredited)

Directed by
Ralph Eggleston

Produced by
Karen Dufilho-Rosen	....	producer (as Karen Dufilho)
John Lasseter	....	executive producer

Film Editing by
Tom Freeman
Jennifer Leo Russ		(as Jennifer Taylor)

Production Management
Paul Cichocki	....	post-production supervisor
Renee Jensen	....	production manager
Holly Lloyd	....	production manager

Art Department
Norm DeCarlo	....	sculptor (as Norm Decarlo)
Derek Williams	....	set dresser

Sound Department
Tom Myers	....	sound designer
Jory K. Prum	....	additional character sound designer (as Jory Prum)

Visual Effects by
Byron Bashforth	....	additional shading and support
Byron Bashforth	....	render technical director
Onny P. Carr	....	additional shading and support
Christine Z. Chang	....	additional modeling and support
Jun Han Cho	....	character modeling and articulation artist
Keith B.C. Gordon	....	effects artist (as Keith Gordon)
Jesse Hollander	....	lighting artist
Leo Hourvitz	....	effects artist
Jongo	....	lighting artist
Ana Lacaze	....	master lighting artist
Eileen O'Neill	....	lighting artist
Eben Ostby	....	modeling supervisor
Cynthia Pettit	....	additional modeling and support (as Cynthia 'Kiki' Pettit)
Bill Polson	....	character modeling and articulation artist
Mitch Prater	....	shading artist
Brian M. Rosen	....	shading artist (as Brian Rosen)
Bill Sheffler	....	lighting artist
Jerome Strach	....	render technical director
David Valdez	....	CG painter
David Walden	....	shading artist
Bill Wise	....	supervising technical director

Animation Department
Michael Berenstein	....	animator
Ben Catmull	....	animator
Christine Z. Chang	....	layout artist
William Cone	....	background painter
Robin Cooper	....	background painter
Tim Crawfurd	....	animator
Chris DiGiovanni	....	animation coordinator
Ike Feldman	....	animator
Craig Good	....	layout artist
Tasha Harris	....	animator (as Tasha Wedeen)
Patty Kihm	....	animator
Karen Kiser	....	animator
Angus MacLane	....	animator
Daniel Mason	....	animator (as Dan Mason)
James Ford Murphy	....	supervising animator
Michael Parks	....	animator
Karen Prell	....	animator
Roger Rose	....	animator
Doug Sheppeck	....	animator
David Tart	....	animator
Adam Wood	....	animator
Kureha Yokoo	....	animator

Editorial Department
Craig Alpert	....	assistant editor
Luis Alvarez y Alvarez	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Susan Bradley	....	title designer
Perrin Cutting	....	film output
Bahram Hooshmand	....	production assistant
Louis Rivera	....	film output
Jeff Wan	....	film output

Thanks
Ken Bruce	....	thanks
Ed Catmull	....	very special thanks
Rob Gibbs	....	thanks
Dan Jeup	....	thanks
Steve Jobs	....	very special thanks
Bill Kinder	....	thanks
Ann Mather	....	very special thanks
Sarah McArthur	....	very special thanks (as Sarah Mcarthur)
Bob Peterson	....	thanks
Jeff Pidgeon	....	thanks
Joe Ranft	....	thanks
Kevin Reher	....	thanks
Catherine Roehl	....	thanks
Gary Rydstrom	....	thanks
Andrew Stanton	....	thanks
Robert Taylor	....	thanks
Lee Unkrich	....	thanks

Production Companies

• Pixar Animation Studios

Distributors

• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2002) (Finland) (DVD)
• Buena Vista Home Entertainment (2007) (Finland) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• Pixar Animation Studios
• The Walt Disney Company (Spain)

Other Companies

• Skywalker Sound  post-production sound services

Also Known As:

Runtime:

3 min

Country:

USA

Color:

Color

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Australia:G | Germany:o.Al. | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | UK:U | USA:G | South Korea:All | Finland:K-7 | Japan:G | Singapore:G

Company:

Pixar Animation Studios

Trivia:

The last film to come from Pixar's Point Richmond studio before the company moved.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Pixar Shorts: A Short History (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

Big High Wire Hop

I wonder if the little guys hate Pixar?

This is a wacky little short that is about one big and dumb bird and his dealings with lots of mean little birds. The big guy just wants to be friends, but the nasty little guys want him to go away and don't care what they have to do to make it happen--leading to a very funny conclusion where the little jerks get theirs!

Think about it...for the category of Best Animated Short Film for the Oscars for 2002, you have several independent productions made on shoestring budgets...and this WHOPPING production made by the pioneering geniuses at Pixar Films! It's a definite case of "David versus Goliath", though in this case Goliath definitely wins! Pixar couldn't help but win--the graphics were, as usual, superb, the writing was spot on and brilliant and it was just so gosh-darn cute and entertaining. So for the "little guys", it's definitely a huge struggle to beat such a great combination. This film definitely earned the award, but you gotta wonder how tough it must feel to be one of these other filmmakers. Perhaps, in an odd way, this film might be a metaphor about this struggle.