Win or Lose Series Reveals Key Art and New Clips
With just one week before the first two episodes of Pixar Animation Studios’ Win or Lose series launch on Disney+, two new clips and key art are now available.
Pixar’s first-ever original series features the intertwined stories of eight different characters as they each prepare for their big championship softball game—the insecure kids, their helicopter parents, and even a lovesick umpire.
The clips highlight characters from two upcoming episodes:
“Meet Sweaty” – The first episode introduces Laurie (voice of Rosie Foss), a 12-year-old softball player whose insecurity manifests into an ever-growing anxiety blob called Sweaty (voice of Jo Firestone) that only she can see.
“Cheating” – Episode four stars bubbly mom Vanessa (voice of Rosa Salazar), whose daughter Rochelle (voice of Milan Elizabeth Ray)—a talented player on the team—is accused of cheating on a test at school. Vanessa insists it didn’t happen—or did it?
The Win or Lose series also features the voices of Will Forte, Josh Thomson, Dorien Watson, Izaac Wang, Chanel Stewart, Lil Rel Howery, Melissa Villaseñor, Flula Borg, Kyleigh Curran, Jaylin Fletcher, Erin Keif, Tom Law, Beck Nolan, Orion Tran and Rhea Seehorn.
Directed and written by Carrie Hobson and Michael Yates, and produced by David Lally, Win or Lose presents incredibly funny, very emotional and uniquely animated perspectives. Streaming on Disney+ beginning Feb. 19, the series features music by composer Ramin Djawadi and original songs by CAMPFIRE and Djawadi.
“I played softball growing up,” said Carrie Hobson previously. “Inspired by that experience, we felt fast-pitch softball was the perfect backdrop for the show. There are so many facets to playing sports that I love—it can bring out the best and worst of a person, the calmest person can lose their temper.
“And when it comes to winning and losing—the consequences are nothing, and yet, they’re everything. We really felt like it was the best arena for the themes we loved.”
According to Yates, the idea of spotlighting different perspectives was born of everyday life at Pixar. “Carrie and I were officemates on ‘Toy Story 4,'” he said.
“We were both story artists on the film, and we would talk about a lot of things going on in the film, as well as things going on in the world—current events, news.
He continued: “We would always have different reactions or different interpretations of the same meeting. One of us would say, ‘That went great!’ and the other would say, ‘No! It was terrible, what are you talking about?’
“We realized that our own experiences that we bring to the table change our perception of an event. We wanted to tell a story that illustrated all of that.”
