A113
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A113 (sometimes A-113, A-1-13, A1-13 or A11-3) is an inside joke and Easter egg in media developed by alumni of California Institute of the Arts, referring to the classroom used by graphic design and character animation students.[citation needed]
History
Students who have used the classroom include John Lasseter, Tim Burton, Michael Peraza, and Brad Bird. It has appeared in other Disney movies and almost every Pixar movie.[citation needed]
Brad Bird first used it for a license plate number in the "Family Dog" episode of Amazing Stories: "I put it into every single one of my films, including my Simpsons episodes—it's sort of my version of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld's 'Nina'."[1] It appears in South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and the SPA Studios animated film Klaus [2].
See also
- List of Pixar film references
- List of filmmaker's signatures
- 42 – The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, first used by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, often used as an in-joke.
- Goroawase, a common Japanese language stylistic recourse in which numerical codes representing words are created with syllables that can be used to pronounce each numeral.
References
- ^ Sragow, Michael (1999-08-05). "Iron without irony". Salon Arts & Entertainment. Salon.com. Archived from the original on 1999-08-05. Retrieved 2007-04-27.
A113 was our classroom number. On "Family Dog" I put it on the license plate of the thieves' car. And I put it into every single one of my films ...
- ^ KLAUS | FUN FACTS, retrieved 2022-11-29
Bibliography
- Pixar (2017-09-29). "Pixar Did You Know: A113 - Disney•Pixar".
External links
Media related to A113 at Wikimedia Commons
- Pixar Did You Know: A113 - Disney•Pixar on YouTube