{"id":117987,"date":"2021-04-20T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987//?p=117987"},"modified":"2022-03-21T13:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T17:17:30","slug":"ucf-grads-helped-bring-pixars-soul-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987//ucf-grads-helped-bring-pixars-soul-to-life/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987//","title":{"rendered":"Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ Grads Helped Bring Pixar/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/u2019s ‘Soul’ to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Âé¶¹Ó³»­´«Ã½ alums Teresa Falcone /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/u201914 and Christopher Sanchez /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/u201914 first looked at the storyboards for Pixar/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/u2019s Soul, they had a gut feeling they were going to be working on something memorable./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/u201cYou can tell it feels special, when you know that people are going to love the movie when it is released,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/u201d Sanchez says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/u201cI could feel it when I was working on Soul./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/n

Soul, which was released on Disney+ on Christmas, became an instant hit among audiences and critics alike, and earned the Golden Globe and Academy Award for best animated feature./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/n

The first Pixar film to feature a Black protagonist, the story follows middle school music teacher Joe Gardner, who seeks to reunite his soul and his body after they are accidentally separated, just before his big break as a jazz musician./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/117987/n