Self review (Patreon)

Self is I believe the first Pixar short to use stop motion (well, partly, since only the titular character is stop-motion). As the short uses CGI for the other characters, this makes a commentary both on the nature of mediums as well as race.

Being overtly black coded, its not hard to see Self's desire to fit with the radiant-skinned CGI people as a commentary on race and social acceptability. This in turn ties to the medium, since stop motion has to fight to exist in a world where CGI dominates, which is quite the parallel.

Being a short, the fact that it conveys this message so eloquently is nothing short of amazing.