Disney Short 'Paperman' Adds a Dose of Adorable

Need a little dose of extra cuteness to get you over hump day?

Try watching the Disney short flick “Paperman,” which proves that a great story can be told without dialogue.

The mostly black-and-white film, which wraps in less than seven minutes, is a mixture of traditional animation and computer animation utilized by a new animation process called Meander. It has been nominated for Best Animated Short Film for the upcoming 85^th Academy Awards.

Hailing from Walt Disney Animation Studios and directed by John Kahrs, the adorable video features a man on a train platform in 1940’s New York. A windy day inadvertently unites our hero with a lovely female. His paper accidentally flies onto her face, and her lipstick makes its mark. He loses her, however, when she boards her train and vanishes.

But don’t despair! While drudging through a long day at work, our hero notices the woman again—at the building across the street. His attempt to get her attention is both creative and adorable, and the lipstick marked paper will turn the tide in his favor.

Though no words are exchanged, the short features the voice talents of John Kahrs as the hero, George, Kari Wahlgren as the beauty Meg, and Jeff Turley as the life-sucking boss.

Kahrs said of his piece, “We brought together as best we could the expressiveness of 2D drawing immersed with the stability and dimensionality of CG."

He explains, "In Paperman, we didn’t have a cloth department and we didn’t have a hair department. Here, folds in the fabric, hair silhouettes and the like come from of the commited design decision-making that comes with the 2D drawn process. Our animators can change things, actually erase away the CG underlayer if they want, and change the profile of the arm.”

Check it out if you have a few minutes to spare and could use a smile or two.