Some Details About a Brave-Based Short Film - And a Catch-Up on the "Umbrella" Short

It's been a tradition since 2001, that when a Pixar film hits home video formats, it will be accompanied by the short-film that preceded it in cinemas, and a new feature-based short exclusive to DVDs, Blu-rays and digital copies of the film. Monsters, Inc. had Mike's New Car, The Incredibles had Jack Jack Attack, WALL-E had BURN-E, and so on. Pixar's last two features, Toy Story 3 and Cars 2 haven't had one on their home video releases, but Brave looks set to return to the tradition.

Check out all the details after the jump break!

Brave: Potion Making

Pixar has heavily shrouded the second act of Brave during promotion of its thirteenth feature film, that is, until very recently. Two weeks ago we got our first real look at the Witch (Julie Walters) who helps Merida change her fate, and today Pixar provide us with another, called "Potion Making".

"Potion Making" is the real turning point in the film, to the more mythical and magical elements, as well as some of the darker parts of the film, and the Witch looks like an insanely good character.

Be warned though, this clip contains pretty big SPOILERS, as do a lot of the recent ones, and, although they're great to hype you up for the film, I'm once again going into a Pixar film feeling like I more or less know the plot already.

Brave is released in the US in two days, on 22nd June, and here in the UK on 13th August.

New Brave Featurette Gives Us Our Longest Look At The Witch

Pixar continue to roll out the clips for Brave - at this point I feel as if I've seen a decent portion of the film already - today in the form of another parody video. Following on from previous parodies, Kilt and Freedom Broch, today's featurette, titled Witch Brew (above), gives us our most extended look at the Witch so far!

The witch plays a very important and pivotal roll in the well guarded second act of the movie, and this clip should definitely be avoided if you want to try and go into the film knowing as little as possible - it's quite packed with potential spoilers.

That said, it is a very funny clip and the Witch is a wonderful character! She exudes life and a creepy charm, much like Mama Odie in Disney's The Princess and the Frog and is very well designed to that end.

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Also, I went to go see Men in Black 3 today (it's surprisingly good, Josh Brolin's great too, see it if you can) and was pleasantly surprised by the sheer amount of Brave advertising in place! You can see a snippet of some of the posters, boards and other advertisements that were scattered around our local Vue Cinema above and below, but it doesn't do it justice; it's not a huge cinema and it was jammed full of Brave stuff. There was hardly anything else!

It really hypes you up even more for the film. Brave is released on 22nd June in the US and 13th August in the UK.