The Adventures of André & Wally B./Trivia

Trivias for The Adventures of André & Wally B..

Trivias

 * John Lasseter made this film to entertain his children; ironically, it frightened them instead.
 * First use of squash-and-stretch motion in computer animation.
 * This was made in the days before Pixar existed in its own right when John Lasseter and his crew were working for Lucasfilm. Despite their successes there, the animation department was in line to be axed, so they put together a business plan. It was sufficiently well thought through to attract Steve Jobs of Apple who bought Pixar for $5 million cash and $5 million in bankroll funding.
 * First use of motion blur in computer animation.
 * The modeling program used at the time could only produce simple geometric designs (cones, cubes, spheres). John Lasseter wanted a flexible pear shape for the characters' bodies, as is found in most cartoon characters. Eventually a teardrop shape was achieved by stretching the point of a sphere to infinity.
 * The title is a tribute to Louis Malle's film My Dinner with Andre (1981), referencing actors Andre Gregory and Wallace Shawn.
 * The original title was "My Breakfast with Andre", and it was about waking up with an android.
 * Even though this short was made by the people who would soon form Pixar, this film was released from Lucasfilm.
 * Andre is loosely based on Mickey Mouse.
 * This is Andre and Wally-B's first and only appearance in a short film of their own. However, they do appear as Easter Eggs in almost every Pixar film and short film.
 * Rendered using a Cray X-MP/48 supercomputer provided by Cray Research, the fastest computer in the world at the time.
 * This is USA on released on That Darn Cat in 1997.
 * Released Theatrically with Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) in Argentina and South Korea.
 * This is UK on released on Cars in 2006.
 * This is Uruguay on released on I'll Be Home for Christmas in 1999.