Aphton Corbin, one of Pixar’s rising Black female story artists, was motivated by professional insecurity to make her debut SparkShort, “Twenty Something,” on Disney+. It’s a clever and funny 2D short about Gia, who imagines herself as a stack of kids hiding in a trench coat during a frantic 21st birthday celebration at a club.
“The original idea stems from me being a 20-something entering the workforce for the first time at Pixar and feeling all of the inadequacies that are coming at you all at once,” Corbin said. “Am I a successful adult or am I bunch of kids running around to make it work? This was fun to visualize [adulting] as a short.”
When approached to direct her first short through the experimental SparkShort program, Corbin immediately started hyperventilating. But she decided to dig deeper into her “imposter syndrome,” which often compels her to draw comics in...
“The original idea stems from me being a 20-something entering the workforce for the first time at Pixar and feeling all of the inadequacies that are coming at you all at once,” Corbin said. “Am I a successful adult or am I bunch of kids running around to make it work? This was fun to visualize [adulting] as a short.”
When approached to direct her first short through the experimental SparkShort program, Corbin immediately started hyperventilating. But she decided to dig deeper into her “imposter syndrome,” which often compels her to draw comics in...
- 9/10/2021
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
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