Knick Knack
Knick Knack (English for knick-knacks, knick-knacks ) is a nearly four-minute, animated short film, which was produced in 1989 by Pixar. It was Pixar's first production in 3D. The action is accompanied by a scat song, which was composed and interpreted by jazz vocalist Bobby McFerrin.
Action
On a shelf are some souvenirs from sunny holiday destinations and move slightly to the sound of Caribbean-like background music. A little off is a snow globe from the cold Nome, Alaska. The lonely snowman in the globe is aware of the revelers, as it is a gift from the ' Sunny Miami ', an attractive woman in bikini over beckons to him. However, he realizes that he is caught in the snow globe. He now takes several attempts to escape: the igloo from the ball fails as a battering ram, his Karrottennase bends when he used it as a chisel. The use of a jackhammer brings him to his destination even closer, but ensures that the cinders that make his face fall down. A cutting torch ignited twists him only several times by his prison. Although the explosive charge last inserted also does not damage the glass, puts the snow globe but dangerously close to the edge of the shelf. When the snowman is preventing something to look down, the ball crashes. In free fall, he noticed an emergency exit in the bottom of the ball and escapes through this his dungeon, only to end up in a fishbowl. In the short term frustrated by the situation, he sees a holiday souvenir from the ' Sunny Atlantis ', a mermaid, very similar to the lady from Miami. But before he can get to her, the snow ball sinks to the bottom of the glass and takes him prisoner again.
Special
After the technically complicated Tin Toy director John Lasseter wanted to make a cartoon -like film in the style of Chuck Jones or Tex Avery. Therefore, Knick Knack acts animated rather simplistic compared by the simple geometric shapes and smooth surfaces.
There are two versions of Knick Knack, both of which have both been published in 2D and 3D. The original version was first shown at SIGGRAPH 1988 in 3D and 2D on the Tiny Toy Stories -VHS cassette. As a supporting film of Finding Nemo a digitally revised version was published in 2003, in the breasts of the female main characters were significantly reduced and the mermaid wearing a bikini top made of shells instead of the original starfish pasties. John Lasseter attributed this to his responsibility as a father. A 3D version of the new version can be found on the Disney Digital 3-D release of The Nightmare Before Christmas in the year 2006.
Awards and criticism
Award in the category Best Short Film at the Seattle International Film Festival 1990. In 2001, Terry Gilliam chose Knickknack one of the ten best animated films of all time.