Piper

The folks at Pixar have a great eye for detail and the reproduction of the animal world (any world for that matter). While the story is almost overly cute, the little guy that is at the center is amazingly crafted and presented. He is receiving his little bird education as his mother moves him slowly through the steps he must follow to lead an adult life. Lovely.

The little piper is not just adorable but the way the makers of piper captured the beauty of motherhood,, survival, nature and adventure in just 6 min is pure brilliance.

The film is told with no words and is the story of a very timid baby piper. The best thing about this film is the character design. The baby piper is adorable and is a great combination of a more realistic sort of CG with a slightly cartoon character. Both funny and touching, the minutes seem to go by pretty quickly by the time it ends.

However, this story line is a little difficult for children. It is not easy to understand the process of getting shells.

This short was visually stunning and I fell in love with the little sand piper as soon as I saw it. I could watch 90 minutes of nothing but his adventures and be perfectly content

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.