DAP002: Diving deep into 'Moana'

A review of "Coco" and a special announcement.

Conor Hilton joins the podcast to help review the new Pixar film, "Cars 3."

In this episode, we'll hear a presentation about finding the story for "Cars 3" with writers Mike Rich, Bob Peterson and Kiel Murray and story supervisor Scott Morse. They'll discuss, among other things, social barrier-breaking real racers who inspired the story, the background of Cruz Ramirez, and how the team dug into the audio archives for Paul Newman and Tom Magliozzi.

In this episode, I share my reaction to the footage of "Cars 3" that I saw a couple weeks ago, and we dive into the film with director Brian Fee, producer Kevin Reher and co-producer Andrea Warren.

In this episode, I chat with Pixar artists Alan Barillaro & Marc Sondheimer ("Piper") and Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj ("Borrowed Time"). Both pairs are up for the Best Animated Short Oscar on Sunday.

In this episode, I speak with Pixar veteran Sharon Calahan about place, her long career at Pixar and creating the "painterly realism" of "The Good Dinosaur."

In this episode, I meet up with some Pixar-adjacent folks at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

In this episode, two voice actors from "The Good Dinosaur" -- Raymond Ochoa (Arlo) and A.J. Buckley (Nash) -- join the podcast.

With the opening of "Moana," we dive deep into 'Moana' with a conversation with story artist David Derrick and animation co-head Hyrum Osmond, as well as will a full review of the film with Brooke Parker and Aaron Parker.

In this episode, Davey Morrison Dillard, Brooke Parker, Colin Hatch and Greg NIchols join the podcast to discuss Pixar's latest film, "Finding Dory."