| Boundin' | |
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 Poster forBoundin' | |
| Directed by | Bud Luckey |
| Written by | Bud Luckey |
| Produced by | Osnat Shurer |
| Starring | Bud Luckey |
| Narrated by | Bud Luckey |
| Cinematography | Jesse Hollander |
| Edited by | Steve Bloom |
| Music by | Bud Luckey |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures Distribution[a] |
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Running time | 5 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Boundin' is a 2003 American animated short film, which was shown in theaters before the feature-length superhero and city places filmThe Incredibles.[2] The short is a musically narrated story about a dancing lamb, who loses his confidence after being sheared. The film was written, directed, narrated and featured the musical composition and performance ofPixar animatorBud Luckey.
In the American North Desert, a lamb’s elegant dancing is popular with the other animals. One day lamb-shearers arrive and shear him for wool. The other animals mock his skinny, bare state and he becomes shy and loses the confidence to dance. As the lamb mourns, a benevolentjackalope comes across him, and teaches him the merits of "bounding", not just dancing (that is, getting up whenever one falls down). The lamb is converted and his joy in life is restored. The lamb's wool eventually grows back in the winter, only for it to be cut again, but his confidence is now completely unshaken and he continues to "bound."
Writer-directorBud Luckey designed and voiced all the characters, composed the music and wrote the story. According to the director's commentary forThe Incredibles,Brad Bird wanted to introduce the animated short by having Rick Dicker, (the superhero relocator fromThe Incredibles, also voiced by Luckey) enter a room, sit down, and pull out a bottle of "booze" and a banjo.
This is the first Pixar short with a theatrical release that included vocal performances with words (Bobby McFerrin did an acapella song forKnick Knack). All prior films included only music and sound effects.
TheCars DVD contains a version ofBoundin' withMater as the jackalope,Lightning McQueen as the lamb, andGuido as the gophers as anEaster egg.
To qualify for the76th Academy Awards, Pixar debuted in December 2003 special screenings of the short at theLaemmle Theatres inLos Angeles.[3]
Boundin' was released on March 15, 2005, onThe Incredibles two-discDVD collector's release, including commentary fromBud Luckey and the short clip titledWho is Bud Luckey?.[2] The film was also released as part ofPixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 in 2007.
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