Boundin'

Listen in as a banjo plays a Western song about a woolly lamb who's so proud that he breaks out in high-stepping dance. But the day that they take him and shear him down to a bare-naked pink, he falls into a deep funk. It'll take a power as great as the mythical Jackalope- a bunny with horns- to teach the lamb that woolly or naked, it's what you've got inside that's the real stuff.

Lamb, Jackalope

Release date is that of screening in Los Angeles. General release was attached to PIXAR Films The Incredibles on October 24, 2004.

This is the first Pixar short with a theatrical release that included vocal performances of any kind. All prior films included only music and sound effects.

The car that the man drives is Stanley the Stanley Steamer from Cars. Stanley was the statue that was torn off his pedestal and pulled through town, ripping up the road.

The Cars DVD and Blu-Ray contain a version of Boundin' with Mater as the Jackalope and Lightning McQueen as the sheep. Guido is also seen briefly with the groundhogs.

Bud Luckey, Pixar Animation Studios' director for "Boundin'," has a long and storied history in animation. Born and raised in Billings, Montana, he came to Los Angeles after four years in the Air Force to attend Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts) as well as classes at the University of Southern California. At USC, he was taught by legendary animator Art Babbitt. Bud's first work in animation was as an in-betweener for Babbitt while still in school. He worked at Format Films in Los Angeles until 1960, when he moved to San Francisco and spent six years as an art director for television advertising.

He left advertising to return to animation, and directed several short films for the first season of Sesame Street. These included "Infinity"... "That's about the size, where you put your eyes...") and fourteen counting films, like "The Alligator King" and "The Ladybug Picnic," in conjunction with lyricist Don Hadley.

From 1973 to 1984, he ran his own studio, animating and directing commercials, then spent two years working on early computer-based educational games. In 1986, he joined Colossal Pictures in San Francisco, where he worked as animator, director and trainer/mentor until he was recruited by Pete Docter to come to Pixar in 1992. At Pixar, he has worked on every feature film to date, and is credited with designing Woody and other characters for "Toy Story."

Production on "Boundin'" began in January 2003, and took ten months to complete. The process of directing an all digital film was a new experience for this long-time traditional artist, but as Bud said to the staff of digital animators and technical staff at the start of "Boundin'," "I used to teach youngsters about numbers using animation; now I learn from youngsters about animating with numbers.

Academy Award Nominee, Best Short Film (Animated), 2004.
Winner, Outstanding Achievement in an Animated Short Subject, Annies, 2004