I saw a tenfold increase in page views on this website today — the most hits ever, second only to my interview with Brenda Chapman. Well, I did write 3 pretty darn good articles, but I wish that's what I could attribute the traffic to. No, I owe it to Alex Zemke, a character animator from Sony Pictures Imageworks who announced his plans, along with a rendered image for an animated short film he's making based on Valve's popular game, Portal.

Even though this project is not actually from Pixar itself, Twitter and Reddit were abuzz with the phrase, "Pixar presents Portal" from excited Portal fans. I'm not much of a gamer myself, but Portal belongs to an elite group of video games that I've actually owned and enjoyed. It looks like fun. I'm excited to see how it turns out!

Disney/Pixar has taken an interesting spin on their Brave promos:

While the spot itself focuses on a broad assortment of humor in the film, one gag in particular is getting all the attention, and has stirred up quite a discussion — particularly the clip where one of the bear triplets gets flung into a woman's chest. A similar discussion churned for a while about Lord Dingwall's kilt-lifting gag when the first Brave trailer appeared. Sure, we got our share of potty humor in Toy Story 3, but this does seem a bit edgy for the family-friendly studio who famously disallowed Brad Bird from portraying Edna Mode in The Incredibles as a smoker.

What are your thoughts? Is this outside the scope of Pixar's typically high moral standard, or is it no big deal?

The Soundtrack for Brave has been listed on Amazon's website with a release date set for June 19th, 2012.

The musical score for the film was composed by Scotsman, Patrick Doyle. It is rumored that the song at the end of the latest trailer by Julie Fowlis will also be included on the album. The soundtrack is now available for pre-order on Amazon.

Thanks Stitch Kingdom