Editing Geri's Game (section)

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{{Infobox film
| name = Geri's Game
| image = Geri's Game poster.jpg
| alt = Poster for Geri's Game 
| caption = Film poster
| director = [[Jan Pinkava]]
| producer = [[Karen Dufilho-Rosen|Karen Dufilho]]
| writer = Jan Pinkava
| starring = [[Bob Peterson (filmmaker)|Bob Peterson]]
| music = [[Gus Viseur]]
| editing = Jim Kallett
| studio = [[Pixar Animation Studios]]
| distributor = [[Buena Vista Pictures Distribution]]{{efn|name=Disney|Distributed by [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista Pictures Distribution]] through the [[Walt Disney Pictures]] banner.}}
| released = {{film date|1997|11|24|[[Laemmle Theatres|Laemmle's Monica Theater]]|1998|11|25|with ''[[A Bug's Life]]''|ref1=<ref name="TFLPremiere"/>}}
| runtime = 5 minutes
| country = United States
}}
'''''Geri's Game''''' is a 1997 American animated [[short film]] produced by [[Pixar]] and written and directed by [[Jan Pinkava]]. The film was Pixar's first film to feature a human as its main character. The character later made an appearance in ''[[Toy Story 2]]'' as "The Cleaner", where he was voiced by [[Jonathan Harris]] and [[Bob Peterson (filmmaker)|Bob Peterson]].

''Geri's Game'' was released eight years after ''[[Knick Knack]]'', the last short by Pixar to that point, made as part of an effort to reignite the [[List of Pixar shorts|studio's short film series]], which had been put on standby in order to focus on the creation of television commercials as well as the studio's first feature film, which would become the first-ever [[Feature film|full-length]] computer-animated film, ''[[Toy Story]]''. A dedicated [[research and development]] team worked alongside the filmmakers to devise ways to get around the burdens of animating a human character, leading to an in-house [[computer simulation]] to mimic the natural [[Cloth simulation|movement of clothing]] on a character. [[Subdivision surface]] [[3D modeling|modeling]], a technique partly pioneered by [[Edwin Catmull]] in 1978 but mostly ignored in favor of [[Non-uniform rational B-spline|NURBS]] surfaces, was used to bestow natural movement and realistic skin [[Texture (computer graphics)|textures]] on Geri.

''Geri's Game'' premiered on November 24, 1997, winning an [[Academy Award]] for [[Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film|Best Animated Short Film]] the following year. It was the first film distributed by [[Buena Vista Pictures Distribution]] to win that award since 1969's ''[[It's Tough to Be a Bird]]''. It was later shown with the theatrical release of Pixar's second feature film, ''[[A Bug's Life]]'', the following year, and became part of a Pixar tradition of pairing shorts with feature films.