Steve Blake writes in to tell us about the Liudger blogsite, where photos from the 29th Annecy Animation Festival, which has just come to a close in France, have been posted. Among the highlights are images from Pixar’s new short which had its world premiere at the closing ceremony of the Festival. One Man Band, directed by Mark Andrews and Andrew Jimenez, and produced by Osnat Shurer, head of Pixar’s Shorts group, tells “the humorously captivating tale of a peasant girl who, with one coin to make a wish at the piazza fountain, encounters two competing street performers who’d prefer the coin find its way their tip jars. As the two one-man bands’ rivalry crescendos, the two overly eager musicians vie to win the little girl’s attention”. One Man Band is expected to debut to wider audiences as the lead in to Pixar’s next feature film, Cars, released summer 2006.