''Beach Chair'' is a short computer animation test clip created by animator Eben Ostby for

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in 1986. It depicts a chair walking across the sand, dipping its leg into the water, and then moving along. 2009

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. Ostby made the project with the feedback of

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to work out details of rendering software. It was exhibited at SIGGRAPH in

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in 1986, along with Lasseter’s landmark computer animated short '' Luxo Jr.'' and another test project, '' Flags and Waves'' by Bill Reeves.A.M. Buckley, ''Pixar: The Company and Its Founders'' (ABDO, 2011), , p.39
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. ''Beach Chair'' can also be found as an

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in '' Pixar Short Films Collection – Volume 1'', which was released in 2007.

Plot

''Beach Chair'' is a short about a chair on the beach watching the sea. The chair goes to the border of the sea and it touches the water. It feels the water to be too cold, so it starts turning away from the beach.

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1986 films Pixar short films 1986 short films 1980s American animated films 1986 computer-animated films American animated short films Animated films without speech Films set on beaches {{short-animation-film-stub