The Pixar Animation Studios photo-real short The Blue Umbrella, playing with Monsters University, is a beautiful story of two umbrellas, one blue and one red, who fall in love. During just another evening commute, the rain starts to fall and the city comes alive, to the sound of dripping rain pipes and whistling awnings, while a weather-beaten and wind-blown umbrella tries to reconnect with a passing umbrella that caught its eye. At the Monsters University press day at Pixar in Emeryville, Calif., The Blue Umbrella director Saschka Unseld talked about where the idea for the short came from, seeing faces in inanimate objects everywhere, how much the story changed throughout the process, how challenging it was to animate the short, how the photo-real technology compares to traditional animation, the process for the music, and who and what his influences are. Check out what he had to say after the jump. Question: Where did this idea come from? SASCHKA UNSELD: Well, the core idea was me literally walking through San Francisco on a rainy day, and finding an umbrella that someone tossed away or lost. It was lying on the side of the street, half-broken and drenched, and people just kept passing by. It just looked like the saddest thing in the world. That picture just stuck with me. And then, nearly a year later, when I was trying to come up with ideas for short films, that picture was just so ingrained in my head that I thought, "What happened to that poor ...
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