A113 (sometimes A-113, A-1-13, A1-13 or A11-3) is an
inside joke
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and
Easter egg
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in media developed by alumni of
California Institute of the Arts
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both ...
, referring to the classroom used by graphic design and character animation students.
History
Students who have used the classroom include
John Lasseter
John Alan Lasseter (; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, voice actor, and the head of animation at Skydance Animation. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios ...
,
Tim Burton
Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and animator. He is known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as '' Beetlejuice'' (1988), '' Edward Scissorhands'' (1990), '' The Nightmare Before Christmas'' (1993 ...
,
Michael Peraza
Michael Arthur Peraza Jr. (born November 15, 1955) is a Cuban-American animator, art director, conceptual artist and historian of animation, who has worked for The Walt Disney Company, Fox Features, and Warner Brothers. As a Disney Master Artist, ...
, and
Brad Bird
Phillip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning forty years in both animation and live-action.
Bird was born in Montana and grew up ...
. It has appeared in other
Disney
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movies and almost every
Pixar
Pixar Animation Studios (commonly known as Pixar () and stylized as P I X A R) is an American computer animation studio known for its critically and commercially successful computer animated feature films. It is based in Emeryville, Californ ...
movie.
Brad Bird first used it for a license plate number in the "
Family Dog" episode of ''
Amazing Stories
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'': "I put it into every single one of my films, including my ''
Simpsons
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'' episodes—it's sort of my version of caricaturist
Al Hirschfeld
Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.
Personal life
Al Hirschfeld was born in 1903 in a two-story duplex at 1313 Carr ...
's '
Nina Nina may refer to:
* Nina (name), a feminine given name and surname
Acronyms
* National Iraqi News Agency, a news service in Iraq
* Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, on the campus of Norwegian University of Science and Technology
* No income ...
'." It appears in South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and the SPA Studios animated film Klaus.
See also
*
List of Pixar film references
Beginning with ''Red's Dream'' and its references to previous Pixar short films, Pixar has included references in its films to other works produced by the studio. These have included cameo appearances, references to characters, objects, and ti ...
*
List of filmmaker's signatures
This is a list of filmmakers' signatures or Easter eggs that are found in many of their works which become signatures or trademarks. These are usually inconsequential small elements like signs which are inside jokes, cameos or references to other ...
*
42 – ''The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything'', first used by
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author and screenwriter, best known for ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Originally a 1978 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), BBC radio comedy, ''The H ...
in ''
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (sometimes referred to as ''HG2G'', ''HHGTTG'', ''H2G2'', or ''tHGttG'') is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it ...
'', often used as an in-joke.
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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
Bibliography
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External links
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*{{YouTube, id=NyrrZqPI42I, title=Pixar Did You Know: A113 - Disney•Pixar
In-jokes
Individual rooms
California Institute of the Arts
Vehicle registration plates of the United States
Easter egg (media)