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Kellogg's All-Bran - Cello (1993) - Taken from an old version of Pixar's website.
Status: Partially Lost
To give the company funding and to build up their company, as well as give itself practice towards their animation and skills and to build up a production team for future projects, Pixar put their focus towards commercials in the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s for a better start for their company (as do many animators and animation companies starting out or continuing in the field of animation) at the decision of Steve Jobs after the company had been losing a lot of money for years, by opening up their commercial division in 1989.
These commercials would gradually help the company become stand-alone and lead them to work their way to make a fully CGI-animated movie. The commercial brands, like Tropicana, Listerine, and Lifesavers, were impressed by Pixar's shorts so much that they came to them to propose the idea of them making CGI commercials for their brands. These commercials were different in that Pixar would only produce the ads if they could be part of the creative development on them, whereas most animated adverts would only have the animation company just make the animation. Thus, Pixar was given much more creative freedom, in advertising and in general. And as mentioned before, a lot of notable Pixar alumni worked on these in animation or directing, from John Lasseter to Pete Doctor to even Henry Selick, with the same couple of people working in the producing and technical directing department. The advertisements' success helped Pixar gained $2 million per year from these while continually getting exposure to the mainstream public.
The commercial division was officially closed on July 8th, 1996, shortly after the success of Toy Story. However, they did still make some commercials for McDonald's coinciding with the releases of A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2 in 1998 and 1999, respectively, and the company continues to make commercials with their characters to this day. Despite all of this, several of the commercials are completely missing. There lies the hope that Pixar may release these on one of their "Pixar Shorts" DVDs. But until something like that happens, we have to rely on personal VHS recordings for the old ads, with quite possibly not every single last one intact.
All of the original 79 Pixar commercials made by the commercial division are listed on pixartalk.com.[1] A playlist of the non-McDonald's ones (including variants) can be found on YouTube[2]. Notably, some of the Pixar commercials can be briefly spotted in Toy Story 2 while the toys are flicking through the channels on Andy's TV, as well as some Pixar shorts.
Made in Point Richmond DVD
Some point after making For the Birds, Pixar made an employee exclusive DVD called "Made in Point Richmond" that contained most of the commercials listed by Pixartalk. The two Toppan Printing ads are not listed, suggesting that Pixar didn't actually make them, while one 1993 ad for the Apple Mac Classic, titled "Introduction," that isn't on Pixartalk's list is listed on the DVD.
On May 21st, 2018, the whole DVD was uploaded as a disc image by LMW forum user jaret35 (ayeayematey on Discord), with the vast majority of Pixar's commercial work being on it.
List of Pixar Ads
Bumper Name | Year | Status | Description/Found By |
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Toppan Printing – “Dance of the Waterlilies” | 1989 | Lost | |
Toppan Printing – “Galaxy” | 1990 | Lost | |
Eggbeaters "Cracks" | 1991 | Found | Found By: Chuck D's All-New Classic TV Clubhouse |
Cellular One – “Moving Target” | 1991 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Tropicana "Warehouse | 1991 | Found | Found by: GloopTrekker |
Tropicana - “Orange Kiwi Passion" | 1991 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Tropicana - "Three Fruits Dancing" | 1991 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Tetra Pak "Daydream" | 1992 | Found | Found By: peetoons (starts at 0:31) |
IncrediBites - "Comp Chomp" | 1992 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Bunn Coffee Makers - "In the Mood" | 1992 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Volkswagen Polo “Interview” | 1992 | Found | Found By: Anonymous |
La Poste "Ladybug | 1992 | Found | Found By: Anonymous |
Kellogg’s All-Bran "Balloon" | 1992 | Found | Found By: Angel Milian (starts at 1:59) |
Kellogg’s All-Bran "Hourglass" | 1992 | Found | Found By: The Collective Animation Archive |
Kellogg’s All-Bran – “Cello” | 1993 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Kellogg’s All-Bran – “Sprinkler” | 1993 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Carefree "Bursting" | 1993 | Found | Found By: barber747 |
Fresca "Chuckling Straws" | 1993 | Found | Found By: SuperNintendo96 |
Bank South – “Hungry” | 1993 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Tetra Pak – “Stranded” | 1993 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Jordan Magic Toothbrush "Launching Magic" | 1993 | Found | Found By: The Collective Animation Archive |
Nutri-Grain "We’ve Got Taste" | 1993 | Found | Found By: VHSgoodiesWA |
Dow Corning – “Ideas at Work” | 1993 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Bank South – “Chase” | 1993 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Coca-Cola – “Kaleidoscope” | 1994 | Found | Found by: ayeayematey |
Arm & Hammer – “Here, There and Everywhere” | 1994 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Arm & Hammer "About to Uncover" | 1994 | Found | Found By: The Collective Animation Archive |
Boston Chicken – “Fresh Salad” | 1994 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Prime Option Credit Card – “Shaping Up Nicely” | 1994 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Prime Option Credit Card – “Strong Option” | 1994 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Paramount – “Logo” | 1994 | Found | The earliest known actual use of the logo was in 1998, it is unconfirmed if this is the one Pixar produced. |
Ortho "Flamingo" | 1995 | Found | Found By: The Collective Animation Archive . |
Chips Ahoy – “Circus” | 1995 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Hershey’s – “Amazin’ Straws” | 1995 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Coca-Cola – “Learning Lesson” | 1995 | Found | Found By: ayeayematey |
Tower Records "Christmas Conga" | 1995 | Found | Found By: recordman33 |
Hallmark "Magnets" | 1996 | Found | Found By: VHSgoodiesWA |
Twizzlers "Let Me In" | 1996 | Found | Found By: 90s Commercials |
Sun Microsystems – “Magic Desktop” | 1996 | Found | Found by: Oracle Solaris |
McDonald's – A Bug’s Life – “Belt Loop” | 1998 | Found | There are two, "Belt Loop 1" and "Belt Loop 2." The second one shown is "Belt Loop 2." |
McDonald’s – A Bug’s Life – “Nothing Good on TV Jr.” | 1998 | Found |
Director: Doug Sweetland, Producer: Karen Dufilho Presumably not the version with a different audio track present in the compiled video |
McDonald’s – A Bug’s Life – “Watches" | 1998 | Found | Director: Bob Koch, Producer: Karen Dufilho |
Toy Story 2 Ads
While the characters are flipping through the TV channels in Pixar's Toy Story 2, some Pixar commercials, as well as Pixar short films, can be seen as an in-joke. Whether the following screencaps of this scene all include Pixar commercials or not is unknown.
Gallery
See Also
- A Tin Toy Christmas (lost production material of cancelled Pixar Christmas special; early 1990s)
- Blowin' in the Wind (found Pixar animated short; 1985)
- Cars 3 (lost deleted scene of Pixar animated film; 2017)
- Disney Circle Seven Animation (partially lost production material of cancelled Pixar sequels; 2004-2006)
- The Incredibles "First In Line" (found online trailers for Pixar animated film; 2004)
- The Incredibles (found full version of McDonald's Happy Meal commercial; 2004)
- Inside Out (lost original Bing Bong death scene of Pixar animated film; 2015)
- Newt (partially found unfinished Pixar animated film; early 2010s)
- Pixar's Made in Point Richmond DVD Rarities (found various Pixar footage; 1986-2000)
- To Protect and Serve (lost "Cars" animated short; 2015)
- Toy Story "Black Friday Reel" (partially found rough cut of film; 1993)
- Toy Story Double Feature (partially found intermissions for films; 2009)
- Toy Story 2 (partially found Bullseye dialogue footage from Pixar animated film; late 1990s)
- Toy Story 4 (found original script of Pixar animated film; 2014-2017)
- WALL·E (partially found original treatments of Pixar animated film; 1994-2008)
References
- ↑ pixartalk.com page on Pixar's commercials. Retrieved 15 Sep '13
- ↑ The Collective Animation Archive playlist containing found Pixar produced commercials. Retrieved 29 Aug '17