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Luxo Jr, Geri's Game and Tin Toy are all available on various Pixar DVDs.

Incidentally, does anyoe know the current state of the relationship between Disney and Pixar? There was a falling out because the joint production deal referred to 5 films, but Disney refused to count Toy Story 2 (a sequel) in the 5. There is very little mention of this on Pixar's web site, but after that decision, they announced that there wouldn't be any more Toy Story films (at least until the Disney deal had run its course).

Question: who made Shrek? It was better than Monsters Inc.

Dreamworks, which is a Stephen Speilberg company.

I dunno - I preferred Monsters Inc myself. I really enjoyed Shrek, but it hasn't stayed with me in the way Monsters Inc has - it just had soo much heart I think.

I liked Shrek. A miserable git, just my kind of hero.

Monsters inc was too cute, but I claim credit for noticing how laughing was more powerful than scrwaming (cue happy ending) about halfway through. It made my friend (who is about 12 years over the target age) cry.

"Luxo Jr, Geri's Game and Tin Toy are all available on various Pixar DVDs."

Right, I've got a VHS tape with a collection of Pixar shorts, great stuff and an inspiration to those of us trying our (very amateur) hand at character animation. I hadn't seen "Geri's Game" though, many thanks for the tip. (Only took about half an hour to download at 57k dialup, the middle size of three).