The beach-based short will premiere before ‘Finding Dory’ this summer.
Its always fun to show a world were familiar with but from a different perspective.
That could be very fearful from a birds perspective.

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And then John [Lasseter] did the same.
Theres remarkable encouragement at Pixar that when you think of an innovative idea, dont forget the story.
It was their encouragement or else I would have stopped at the test phase.
Its the kid at the playground feeling, says Barillaro.
I put him in as a placeholder in my very first original story, he says.
And Andrew said, Adrian contacted me and would love to work on a Pixar project.
So it was my first choice and his first choice come together.
We were pretty excited, and he was instrumental in getting the right tone.
And as forPiperandDorys shared nautical theme?
Purely a coastal coincidence.
Finding Dory andPiper hit theaters June 17.
MeetPipers Piper in the concept art above.