**Keep up to date with all the latest movie news, click here to subscribe to _Empire on Great Magazines and have the latest issue delivered to your door every month. Welcome to and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 Pix. In the coming days, two more shorts will hit YouTube – Smash and Grab, and Kitbull – while further SparkShorts creations are destined for the Disney+ streaming service. They may only be a couple of minutes long, but their genius knows no end. ![]() Purl is the first short to emerge from Pixar’s SparkShorts program, giving employees at the company six months and a limited budget to create a short. The films are independent shorts launched as an experimental storytelling initiative that gives employees of varying backgrounds the studios resources and funding to explore their ideas, experiment, and develop a low-budget project of their own within six months. And I came to Pixar, and started to work on teams with women for the first time, and that actually made me realise how much of the female aspect of myself I had sort of buried and left behind.” SparkShorts is a series of animated short films produced by Pixar filmmakers and artists. And so in order to do the thing that I loved, I sort of became one of the guys. Learn about beginning, middle, and end, plus characters, setting, and main idea. Parts of a Story (Jack Hartmann) Jack Hartmann’s videos are popular with kids and teachers alike, and this one is no exception. “My first job I was, like, the only woman in the room. It’s ideal for introducing these concepts to young learners. “It’s based on my experience being in animation,” Lester explains in this making-of video. All that, and it’s stuffed with knitting puns, and the occasional (extremely mild) swear word. ![]() She finds herself forced to change in order to fit in – until she’s confronted with a new yarn co-worker, and uses her newfound acceptance in the office to elevate others like her. ![]() From director Kristen Lester, the short stars Bret Parker as Purl – a pink ball of wool, who bags a job at a male-dominated testosterone-heavy office, amusingly titled B.R.O.
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