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Pixar’s approach to storytelling

This video is a quick look at how Pixar thinks about its characters and storytelling. It focuses on one item on this loose list of Pixar’s rules for storytelling:

Why must you tell THIS story? What’s the belief burning within you that your story feeds off of? That’s the heart of it.