AnimationWorld Magazine — October 31, 2018
‘Incredibles 2’: How Pixar Story Artist Ted Mathot Brought the ‘Auntie Edna’ Mini-Movie To Life
Anyone who’s seen Jack-Jack Parr take on a racoon knows that the innocent looking tyke is not one to be trifled with. But even Jack-Jack meets his match when the indomitable Edna E. Mode steps in…as babysitter.
Directed by Ted Mathot and produced by Marc Sondheimer, Auntie Edna is a new “mini-movie” created as part of the home entertainment release of Pixar’s Incredibles 2, available now on Digital and in stores on November 6.
During Incredibles 2, superhero costume designer Edna volunteers to babysit the youngest Parr after learning he’s exhibiting a wide range of super powers of his own. The spirited fashionista — modeled on the likes of fashion luminaries Anna Wintour and Rei Kawakubo — then returns Jack-Jack to the rest of his family with a super suit built to accommodate the infant’s wide range of superhuman abilities. But one big question remained: what happened that night at Auntie Edna’s house?
Auntie Edna is the second short film to reveal an untold sequence revolving around the infant superhero: the original 2004 film had the short Jack-Jack Attack included on its respective home video release showing a cut sequence as teenager Kari had to suddenly deal with Jack-Jack’s burgeoning super powers while the rest of the family fought Syndrome in the film.
Mathot, who also served as story supervisor on Incredibles 2, first began working at Pixar as a story artist in 1999, and has since worked in a similar capacity on The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, Presto and WALL•E. He received an Annie Award in 2008 for his storyboard work on Ratatouille.