Serving as Head of Story at Pixar Animation Studios, Kristen Lester recently got to write and direct her first animated short with Purl, a timely and topical short inspired by Lester’s challenging …
The short centers on a hardworking and open-hearted ball of yarn who takes a job at a fast-paced, male-centric company, aptly named B.R.O. Capital. The first ball of yarn to work at the company, Purl finds herself excluded and discriminated against by her coworkers. Considering changing her personality and appearance to fit in with the guys, Purl ultimately realizes that doing so would be doing a disservice to herself, and all other employees who stand out as different from the established norm.
I went to this talk with a woman who had been in the animation industry for a long time, longer than I had. She showed up at this talk and was wearing a suit, and her behavior and her attitude was exactly like mine. She was like, “It’s 9:00 AM. What are we doing talking? We should be at the bar, drinking and hanging out,” and I had this realization that I felt like we were all sort of turning ourselves into men to be accepted, to do the things that we wanted to do.
Then, I pitched it to people, and I’ve also really always loved stuff that’s kind of bizarre and strange. I really enjoyed it when I would pitch to people and say, “It’s about a ball of yarn that comes to life, and gets a job in an office full of guys.” People would be like, “Whoa, that’s really weird,” and I’d be like, “All right, I want to make that then.”
When I said, “I want to make a ball of yarn,” that was an incredibly complex thing to try to model, so we did all sorts of stuff. We tried to 3D scan a ball of yarn. We tried to make a ball of yarn in CG, but the geometry was too heavy, because we had thousands and thousands of tubes wrapped around each other. So, it was just this crazy back and forth, even just to try to get what a ball of yarn looks like.
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