Beach Chair (film test)

Beach Chair
Directed byEben Ostby
Written byEben Ostby
Produced byEben Ostby
Production
company
Release date
  • August 1986 (1986-08)
Running time
30 seconds
CountryUnited States

Beach Chair is a 30-second American short computer animation test clip created by animator Eben Ostby for Pixar in 1986. It depicts a chair walking across the sand, dipping its leg into the water, and then moving along.[1] Ostby made the project with the feedback of John Lasseter to work out details of rendering software.[2]

It was exhibited at SIGGRAPH in Dallas in 1986, along with Lasseter’s landmark computer-animated short Luxo Jr. and another test project, Flags and Waves by Bill Reeves.[1][3] Beach Chair can also be found as an Easter egg in Pixar Short Films Collection – Volume 1, which was released in 2007.

In 1991, it was shown on an episode of MTV's Liquid Television.

  1. ^ a b Price, David (2008). The Pixar Touch. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-26575-3. 2009 Vintage Books edition: ISBN 978-0-307-27829-6, p. 91. Excerpt available at Google Books.
  2. ^ "BEACH CHAIR". youtube.com. 1 September 2006. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  3. ^ A.M. Buckley, Pixar: The Company and Its Founders (ABDO, 2011), ISBN 978-1-61714-810-1, p.39. Excerpt available at Google Books.