A113 (pronounced A-One-Thirteen) is the classroom number used by character animation students at the California Institute of the Arts. Many of its alumni (including Pixar staff) have used the number in their professional works. It is said to appear in some way, shape, or form in every Pixar film.
Disney/Pixar. You can find the letter and numbers A113 in Pixar movies. There's a reason it's a part of the movies. A113 is a reference to the California Institute of the Arts, where many animators attended college. You can see it at the end of "Incredibles 2."
A113 is a studio code and its variants are an inside joke and Easter egg in media developed by alumni of California Institute of the Arts, referring to the classroom used by graphic design and character animation students.
You'll find 'A113' on the license plate of Andy's mom's car in “Toy Story,” as the courtroom number in “Up,” on a box in “A Bug's Life” and on the diver's camera in “Finding Nemo.” It also appears in a couple of Disney movies including “Lilo and Stitch” and “The Princess and the Frog.”
A113. "A113" is an animator's inside joke: It refers to a classroom number at the California Institute of the Arts where many of the Pixar folks got their start.
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How many movies does A113 appear in?
Every A113 we could find in 26 Pixar movies. Pixar is famous for its Easter eggs and seemingly interconnected universe. One of the most famous (and recurring) Easter eggs is in the inclusion of "A113." It's a nod to a classroom at CalArts that many animators studied in.
“A113” is a very common Easter egg that appear not only in Disney movies, but in all animated movies. Many animators attended the California Institute of the Arts, where the animation classroom is room A113.
It's a reference to the classroom number for character animation students at California Institute of the Arts. A113 can be seen in the Skydome scene where Mei confronts her mother's red panda.
Through Touchstone, Disney's first R-rated film, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, came on January 31, 1986, and was a large box-office success. Ruthless People followed on June 27, 1986, and was also very successful.
When scarer George Sanderson exits the door onto the scare floor with a child's sock stuck to his back, his scare assistant calls out "2319" to alert the Child Detection Agency. "W" is the 23rd letter in the alphabet and "S" is the 19th letter, so the code seems like it's literally meant to stand for "white sock."
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The company has spent nearly a century associating the name “Disney” with family-friendly entertainment in the public's mind, and it doesn't want to create brand confusion, which would then lead to brand dilution, with R-rated content. The same holds true with its Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel Studios labels.
Similar to its predecessor, 2007's Ratatouille had multiple inclusions of A113. One of which was a tag that read "A113" on a lab rat named Git's left ear. The other was when Linguini was seen watching TV, A113 was written on a train behind the on-screen couple.
Monsters, Inc. - When Mike and Sulley are watching the news, the yellow newscaster is in the shape of an "A", the orange newscaster is in the shape of a "1", and in the blue background is the number 13, forming A113.
A small Mickey can also be caught by the sharpest of eyes inside a wave in Moana, when young Moana (Auli'i Cravalho) wanders into the sea, and the ocean parts for her.
In The Incredibles 2 (2018), the A113 easter egg shows up twice: once on a train and then on a cinema marquee at the end. A113 is the name of a classroom at the California Institute of the Arts, which was attended by several Pixar animators.
While it is never explicitly stated that Lilo is autistic and some of those traits can be explained by emotional trauma this does not preclude her from being autistic. A lot of autistic people including myself found her to be extremely relatable.
She is voiced by Daveigh Chase in all the films and Lilo & Stitch: The Series, except Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch where she was voiced by Dakota Fanning. Lilo is a young girl with long, straight black hair and brown eyes.
A113 was the number of the classroom used by graphic design and character animation students. A quick glimpse at Sarah Silverman's inbox reveals a selection of emails – all sent by names of artists working in Space Jam: A New Legacy's visual effects and story team.
