Ball Of Yarn Disney Short
Pixar s latest short is based on creator and director kristen lester s own experiences working in the male dominated world of animation.
Ball of yarn disney short. The new short film follows a lovable earnest ball of yarn named purl as she starts her new job at a bro tastic startup and learns to navigate her experience as the only female in the workplace. It premiered at siggrph 2018. Purl is a ball of yarn who arrives for her first day of work at b r o. The first film from the program is entitled purl and is about a bright pink ball of yarn trying.
Pixar just released the first animated short in its new sparkshorts program and who better to get the ball rolling than well a ball of yarn. The first episode purl premiered at. The short was first announced by kristen lester on her twitter account. Pixar s sparkshorts program is designed to highlight new voices and new storytelling techniques.
In an amusing disney pixar animated short by sparkshorts an earnest bright pink ball of yarn named purl does her best to be successful at a male dominated startup quite aptly named b r o. It was all going quite swimmingly for purl until another ball of yarn named lacey was hired leading to purl to. Tackling this topical theme comes at the right time for the studio who suffered. Until she gets there and realizes she ll have to change who she is in order to fit in.
Sparkshorts is a series of animated short films produced by pixar filmmakers and artists. The first day was a bit rocky but as purl got the lay of the land she learned how to fit in. The earnest 8 minute animated film follows a ball of yarn named purl at her new very male dominated job and tackles the issue of gender equality in the workplace. The films are independent shorts launched as an experimental storytelling initiative that gives employees of varying backgrounds the studio s resources and funding to explore their ideas experiment and develop a low budget project of their own within six months.
Pixar s sparkshorts program which highlights talent from across the company has brought us a foul mouthed ball of pink yarn battling workplace sexism the studio s first non verbal autistic.