Piper

Piper has beautiful detailed animation. The CGI is breathtaking and something only Disney/Pixar could come up with.

This Oscar winning charming animation has a moral that a little perseverance goes a long way.

Piper is a baby bird who needs to learn to feed with the other birds on the beach but the incoming wave that hits him makes him afraid to go back into the beach.

Piper gradually learns about the beauty of the ocean and it is nothing to fear.

Shown just before Finding Dory, this short is about a young bird on the beach who's a little afraid of the waves when they move quickly especially when it's trying to get something. Everything in this one looks so lifelike, for a while, I didn't think it was computer animated at all! Both funny and a little touching, the minutes seem to go by pretty quickly by the time it ends. Such a natural feel looking at all those birds' movements not to mention the ocean when it movies to and fro most of the time. The 3-D glasses I viewed this with may have been a plus, I don't know. Certainly, I was riveted throughout this short. Really, all I'll say now is Piper is another worthy Pixar short.

Piper is a great animated short film with a well structured story and pitch perfect animation. It is very sweet, as we follow a baby bird struggling to get food on the shore of a beach, it is at times a little heartbreaking, making the end all the more rewarding.

On the other hand, it has little replay value. Many of Pixar's shorts are worth the watch again and again for me, such as For the Birds and Partly Cloudy, but Piper is not funny or unique enough to stand out like they do.

The animation is the star of this short, the movement of the birds, the beach, the water, is all stunning, almost life like, it is amazing how much detail the studio puts in to their work, even with shorts. While it may be forgettable, Piper is fun while it lasts and its worth the watch, which you will get to see before Finding Dory.

A young bird must learn to fend for himself and struggles for survival.

A sandpiper hatches and expects mummy to feed him, but that is not what Nature intended for this little bird, and he has to learn to feed on his own from the seashore. He is just so scared.

Piper, short for sandpiper, is one of the cutest short films ever. This is Pixar in its full splendor regarding the quality and polish of the animation, character creation and the way the story is presented. Most importantly, this is clean humour that speaks to adults, children, and people from all cultural backgrounds, anywhere in the world.

Piper is a slice of bird life, presented both with great realism and accuracy regarding pipers behavior in Nature, but transcends the purely observational by infusing Piper with a reminder of how exciting the world looks and feels when you are a toddler or a puppy. That sort of energy is perfectly captured in the film. Piper speaks, basically, of the magic of discovering the world for the first time.

Piper character is beautifully drawn and textured, cutest as cute can be, tender, innocent and naughty at the same time. Hugely huggable.

Not an inventive story or narrative, just it does what it intends to do to perfection.

A short that is both irrepressibly adorable and true to how these creatures move in real life, Piper follows a little bird as he/she (does that matter?) tries to get a little piece of clam that its mommy leaves for it on a beach. But the tide might come and sweep the bird away or back into looking like a messed-up little thing. It's an inspiring story that shows kids that if there's a little perseverance through the harsh waters that you can come out with something you didn't expect to get. Like many of Pixar's shorts it has a lot more depth than can be expected in a short running time, and the unique aspect to this is how the birds and ocean moves so closely as to how in life that it's only incredible that it wasn't done via digital-rendering on actual birds and clams and crabs and so on. And on top of everything else it's fitting to pair this with Finding Dory, which is all about taking on the odds against you to do what isn't expected - or, to put it another way, going past the limits of what is possible naturally.