Eric Schur

If you are a Christian, you want to get to heaven.

If you're an animator, you want to get to Pixar.

I was taking an animation class with my friend Robert, and he approached me one day and he said, hey, I heard about this gathering of people that's happening at Pixar down in California.

You want to go with me?

For those of you who don't know, Pixar is the animation studio that kind of like redefined what the modern animated movie can be.

They did Toy Story and Bugs Life, Cars, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles.

They are an amazing studio.

And if you're an animator, that's just where you want to go.

So I said to Robert, of course I want to go there.

Which was a little strange for me because I'd never really traveled with anybody before, you know, other than my family when I was a kid.

But I've never traveled with a friend.

I've always traveled alone.

And I like going alone because I know how to prepare myself.

I know how to get places on time.

I know how to get places way early.

And, you know, working with somebody else, traveling with somebody else, I knew could throw everything off.

But I really wanted to go to Pixar.

So Robert said he had this plan.

He got the tickets and we would fly down to Sacramento and stay with a friend.

And the next morning we would drive into San Francisco and go to Pixar.