057: News: October 25, 2011


Remembering Steve Jobs, a review of the upcoming short film Air Mater, John Lasseter defends Cars 2 to the New York Times, and more! 

Aaron Sorkin declined the chance to work on a Pixar film: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/aaron-sorkin-steve-jobs-pixar-246687

Official statement on Steve Jobs (via Pixar Times) http://pixartimes.com/2011/10/05/pixar-issues-statement-on-steve-jobs-passing/

Pixar Talk's Air Mater roundtable write-up with Rob Gibbs: http://www.pixartalk.com/2011/10/director-rob-gibbs-talks-air-mater/

Air Mater pics (via Pixar Times): http://pixartimes.com/2011/10/26/new-images-from-air-mater-short/

Pixar Blog's summary of John Lasseter defending Cars 2: http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/lasseter-speaks-out-on-cars-2-critics.html

John Lasseter to New York Times: Cars 2 was no wreck: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/movies/john-lasseter-of-pixar-defends-cars-2.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1

Writer/director Andrew Stanton on Twitter: https://twitter.com/6Mman

New Toy Story making-of book to be released: http://pixarblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-making-of-toy-story-book-coming-in.html

Cool site about animation: http://AnimationArt.tumblr.com