“Sanjay’s Super Team,” an animated short featuring Hinduism and directed by Sanjay Patel, received a nomination for animated short film at the Oscars earlier this week, earning a share in the spotlight at the year’s biggest award show. The crowd at San Diego Comic-Con fell hard for Pixar’s upcoming short “Sanjay’s Super Team,” one of [...]
January 31, 2016
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Our readers were intrigued by the premise of Disney’s upcoming short film Sanjay’s Super Team when we told you about it in April. Today we’re getting a great new look at the movie. Disney is attaching Sanjay’s Super Team to Pixar’s second original film of 2015, The Good Dinosaur, this November. Ahead of a panel [...]
Growing up in San Bernardino in the 1980s a child of immigrants from Gujarat, India, Pixar Animation Studios artist Sanjay Patel straddled two worlds. Like many American kids of the era, he played with Transformers, watched Looney Toons cartoons and read Superman comics, but he also performed a daily Hindu ritual of meditation and prayer [...]