Name: Pixar's Set the Scene: Win or Lose Creators Break Down House Party Scene
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It's a lot of dog photos in the show, but no actual dogs, unfortunately.

And we argued and negotiated with our producer here about trying to get, like, one last shot in with Cheryl playing catch-up.

Hi, I'm Michael Yates, writer and director.

Hi, I'm Carrie Hobson, writer and director.

Hi, I'm David Lally, the producer, and this is Pixar's Set the Scene for Win or Lose.

right before this, she had, like, hacked into her daughter's phone and she discovered that she's at this house party, a high school party.

Walking up to the door is so fun because she's in full mom mode now, and

that little break of the gnomes is a fun repeat thing in every episode.

Thematically, you'll see it's kind of a mother and daughter holding hands.

It's being smashed because their trust in their relationship is also being smashed here.

I remember a big thing here was the music, because we wanted the bass on the outside of the house, but

we also needed just the right, like, tempo when she entered the house and working with our editor, Robert, on that section, um, to get it just right.

The guys at Campfire gave us this really cool track that some of our effects animators, Mike Frederickson, being one, and

Don Bowie in lighting, was able to animate the shingles on the roof and the strobing of the lighting.

We experimented a lot on boards of what's the first thing she sees when she enters this house.

it's kind of innocent things that she just deems the worst, like getting stains on a couch or overeating or, um, the maliciousness of this hand wipe.

Early on, we had a lot of technical conversations about the baby Björn, how difficult it would be to kind of have, uh, baby Zane attached to her throughout the whole scene.

It was something in the boards that we just really loved because it always showed, like, right away visually you get this idea that she's sort of this mama bear always thinking about her kids first.

And I love in this little, this dance here, how baby Zane wakes up for a second.

Here, he gives a little bit of a head nod right at the end and mimics all of her motion in a really cute way.

She gives the head nod and he's like, hmm, and back out.

Uh, Nira and Tom, our story leads, like, did a pass in storyboards that were just like, it's just crazy, like, all these kids making out and there's, like, a lot of Tom.

We'll probably show a clip of it here or something, but

yeah, it was pretty, well, we're not trying to yuck anyone's yum, but it got.

And so I think we, we did a pivot eventually.

There was something nice about her being the one adult at this party and stopping it before it happened, so then we kind of shifted from, like, they're already making out to, like, they're all kind of closing together, like the Red Sea, like, coming together and she's like, no, and

Rosa Salazar, who plays Vanessa, is, like, super funny and I think, I can't remember who it was improv, but

she, like, shouts, like, "Kiss with your minds," which is just so funny.

I also really like this moment coming up the steps because it's so human, you know?

Like, sometimes you take the stairs and you're like, woo, took, took my breath away.

And then the staircase just growing infinitely was, like, quite a bit of a technical challenge to make sure that it felt continuous and just.

Because, like, for all the other sets, we kind of build out the actual environment, and

so we had to kind of sneak in here and place in this kind of prop environment for that one shot, but

And then I think this face here is also one of my favorites.

I remember, uh, referencing Pee-Wee's big adventure.

I was like, what are you guys talking about?

But Teresa, uh, Reyes did the animation here.

It was a great moment to, like, show off our technology where we could, like, remove the nose just for one shot and make the mouth really big.

If she had a nose, it would look something like this.

Well, I'm 30 because today is my birthday.

You know, it's like the worst when everyone just forgets your birthday and your daughter's missing.

We knew we wanted her to be throwing up and that Vanessa should be taking care of her because that's what a good mom does.

Like, she's that, she's that girl that holds your hair back, you know?

It was interesting to try to figure out how to do, like, a house party, but

There's cups everywhere, but there's strategically placed orange soda to imply what they're drinking.

And then, yeah, the joke of her being lactose intolerant is pretty funny.

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