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Pixar Thriller
by amid
October 31, 2009 1:09 am


This is what they did for Halloween at Pixar yesterday. (PS: “Michael” is none other than Alex Woo.)

UPDATE: Mike Frederickson and Nick Pitera were impressive yesterday too:

UPDATE 2: Here’s a photo gallery of different costumes worn by Pixarians at the studio’s Halloween show.

10/31/09  1:56am
Spike says:

Tut-tut. Shouldn’t they be working on Newt or something?

10/31/09  4:31am
j says:

Oh my god, those guys are just too creative… i wonder where i can buy tha artbook of this…??

10/31/09  7:40am
Jason says:

The term “too soon” comes to mind…

10/31/09  7:58am
doug holverson says:

Pretty scary, huh?

10/31/09  8:25am
Pedro Nakama says:

Seriously, this seems like a bad high school pep rally.

10/31/09  8:25am

This seems uncharacteristic of them.

10/31/09  8:32am
fishmorgjp says:

Have some Jesus Juice, kid! Here’s $20 million hush money! Rubba rubba rubba, it was meant to be!!

10/31/09  10:00am
Sam says:

You guys are jealous! :P It’s obviously Pixar has more fun than any of you do. Haha. I love it though.

10/31/09  10:00am
james madison says:

I check out his blog and Alex was definitely a Michael Jackson fan.

No problems with this at all. Actually, it is a good way for a company to encourage their employees. Probably part of the reason their work is among the best in the business.

10/31/09  10:20am
Julian Carter says:

Gah! Just let them have a bit of fun!

Who says every little thing a Pixar employee does during a normal workday has to be a phenomenal artistic achievement?

10/31/09  11:35am
Kyle Maloney says:

“Who says every little thing a Pixar employee does during a normal workday has to be a phenomenal artistic achievement?”

And that wasn’t? haha. Bravo.

10/31/09  12:19pm

San Francisco sure is a different culture than LA! Speechless.

10/31/09  4:13pm
some guy says:

what the heck are people who are yammering on about “bad taste” even talking about? too soon? for THRILLER?! There’s never NOT a good time for THRILLER! god forbid an animation studios have FUN and be COOL and oh… act like creative people that enjoy themselves!

oh yeah forgot, animators aren’t allowed to be creative or fun. right.

10/31/09  4:44pm
Scott says:

“San Francisco sure is a different culture than LA!”

Yes. San Francisco HAS culture.

10/31/09  4:49pm
Inkan1969 says:

I’m sure that’s exactly what Michael Jackson looks like at this very moment…

10/31/09  5:40pm
Jason says:

**oh yeah forgot, animators aren’t allowed to be creative or fun. right.**

They aren’t? Well, that explains “Delgo”, then.

**Yes. San Francisco HAS culture.**

I’m glad I live in Kansas City, then. Kansas City has standards.

10/31/09  6:38pm
CartoonCrazy says:

When’s the Christmas performance? :p

10/31/09  9:26pm

This reminds me of the Paul Lynde Halloween special.

10/31/09  10:45pm

My.

Goodness.

A lot of snarkiness over something so freakin’ arbitrary.

Let ‘em have their fun. The snarkers sound like they need a good dose of fun themselves.

10/31/09  11:33pm
Kyle Maloney says:

MJ might not have been irrelevant for like the past decade in terms of music, but I believe this still could have happened had he not died. Reason being he would be currently doing his concerts, so naturally he would be on peoples minds again, making new headlines. people would be appreciating his music once again regardless. Combine that with this being Halloween, why wouldn’t they have done this? I don’t see this as poking fun, just having fun.

But your already biased against Pixar in the first place so I don’t know why I bother.

11/1/09  1:48am
amid says:

I’ve taken the liberty of deleting a few of the stupider comments in this thread. It should be no surprise that they were posted by people using fake email addresses, and as our posting guidelines clearly state, a real permanent email address has to be used.

11/1/09  8:27am
Ira Owens says:

Awesome job guys/gals, very cool and very Halloweeny!

MJ would have been proud!

11/1/09  8:43am
Denver says:

If Green Day switched to styrofoam peanuts, they could eliminate the cost and fire danger of pyrotechnics. Pixar pioneers the art of visual presentation again!

11/1/09  8:54am

Yep, still want to work there…

11/1/09  1:27pm

They’re getting off easy.

At a company I worked for a VP had a band and was sure we’d enjoy listening to it.

11/1/09  1:39pm

This creative spirit is what gives Pixar it’s own special vibe. I felt it when I worked there.

Sadly, the Walt Disney Company exhibited this same creative spirit some years ago, but that’s long gone today.

11/1/09  5:40pm

I know this is a Michael Jackson/Halloween post, but as Floyd Norman points out, Disney used to be like this, and that’s the really scary thing. I don’t Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’, but You Are Not Alone in thinking this. Isn’t it the same people at the helm of both companies? I’ve heard lots of stories of Disney having to send stories up to Pixar for input, but that only goes in one direction. Pixar does not even pretend to have interest in input from Disney on their films. Combine that with the big layoffs in Burbank after each of the last two Disney films (Bolt and now Princess and the Frog), and it would seem that the two companies are being run quite differently, but by the same people. Say Say Say what you want, but the differences in the company cultures seem to be as different as Black or White. How come? It’s too Bad.

As for people using fake email addresses, I would also suggest getting people to use their real names as well. If they can’t follow the rules, then they should Beat It.

11/1/09  5:55pm
Kevin says:

This was a let-down only because, when I read the title in my news feed, I imagined Pixar working on a new horror-genre film (that is to say, A Pixar thriller). How exciting that would have been!

11/1/09  6:24pm
Tom D says:

This place just gives off a warm, fun vibe. No wonder they’re the kings.

11/2/09  8:49am
Kris says:

My immediate, visceral reaction: :D

I don’t think it’s in poor taste. In fact, I bet MJ would be happy and relieved if he knew people would remember him mostly through the GOOD parts of his career, and that his old songs were making people so happy.

11/2/09  11:01am
P4blo says:

Pixar people does know how to have fun!

11/2/09  12:38pm
Boris says:

Fundance and festive!…I could guess, it’s the part where the pallbearers act with the coffin and the laughing that projected a shocking feel — even though that was wholly unintentional, it may have been different if the coffin was already up there but, it’s never as fun. But , the fact remains millions of people have seen MJ’s funeral ceremony on tv..so, you can’t put up a video like this and expect everyone to have a uniform joyous response. It’s different for someone close to MJ.

Great dancing!

11/3/09  10:10pm
Brian says:

It really was never meant to
be seen by non employees

11/4/09  4:04am
scissorhands says:

noooo!
The videos are no longer available!
Can I see them somewhere?
Thanx

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