Red's Dream Red's Dream

Life as the sole sale item in the clearance corner of Eben's Bikes can get lonely. So Red, a unicycle, dreams up a clown owner and his own juggling act that steals the show. But all too soon, the applause turns into the sound of rainfall, as reality rushes back. Red must resign himself to sitting in the corner and await his fate.

Pixar Animation Studios

animation short

4 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • mook

    Review by mook ★★½ 1

    Surprisingly melancholy short film from Pixar about a Unicycle who dreams of joining the circus. Ok, but not great. 5/10.

  • Caty Alexandre

    Review by Caty Alexandre ★★★

    Melancholic unicycle who dreams about a big show life.
    Sweet.

  • Charlie Derry

    Review by Charlie Derry ★★★

    A beautiful animation but the story's not quite as strong as Pixar's more recent shorts. Also, clowns are terrifying.

  • Jason Wray

    Review by Jason Wray ★★★½

    Not terrible, this brief short doesn't do much besides what it says on the tin. Red's Dream seems to be a baby step in Pixar's progression from technology previews to actual, effective story telling — this short still uses toys and largely geometric shapes to put on the simplest of stories, while the "human" clown is scary and foretells decades of creepy, inadequate CG depictions of human characters by the company.

    Can be seen, on the down-low, here: vimeo.com/40005100

  • Shawn Stubbs

    Review by Shawn Stubbs ★★★

    Not bad. You can see Pixar's roots in great animation and story here but it's not all quite there yet.

  • Rootbean

    Review by Rootbean ★★★★ 1

    Right proper like, you know. Nice music. Nice balls.

  • Twan

    Review by Twan ★★★★

    Nearly as depressing as those twats that busk while riding on a unicycle.

  • Neven Mrgan

    Review by Neven Mrgan ★★½

    The noir bookends are cute, but the clown sequence is awkward and terrifying, thanks mostly to the really failed experiment with skin modeling on the clown's face. Yeesh.

  • Dave LeCompte

    Review by Dave LeCompte ★★★★

    I saw this at Siggraph, as a guest of my father who was a member of the ACM at the time. This was in amongst a bunch of technical demos of different graphics technologies, including a realtime render of a helicopter over sparse terrain with a few trees. I recall thinking that these Pixar guys had some good technology and storytelling chops.