Pixar Shorts Volume 1: Geri's Game (1997)

If after watching this you start to doubt Geri's proper mental state of mind than I fully understand, that's an interpretation a part of me has got from the short. If you haven't seen it and are confused on what I mean, I'll explain, it wouldn't take you being a genius to figure out that Geri's game is chess; but if you watch the short, the editing of Geri's game might lead some, like myself, to believe that Geri has gone mad.

Some might comment that visually the animation looks like a kind of rubbery plastic, and this is understandable if you don't want to watch it because of this. It's old, so it's going to look like someone threw plastic and rubber into an animation software and made a 5 minute short out of the resulting disaster.

We're so lucky that animation has advanced to the extent that animators are able to make borderline photorealistic films, when close to 30 years ago films like these were considered the height of animation, in all forms of animation it takes a lot of time, effort and patience to make something amazing. Animators, and I'm not just talking about 3D ones, can make true art when they know what they are doing. And in an alarming amount of the world animators are given long hours and little pay and are told to make a masterpiece of art. We should expect better treatment from the studios to the animators. We mustn't live in a system where studio executives can get away with giving their animators pennies and telling them to make something by a near impossible deadline unless they ignore their own sleep, hygiene and overall health.