complement and match each other's designs. In an interview with her school's alumni association, Kari Wahlgren, who voiced Meg, said that she was asked to do the role because of her previous involvements in Bolt and Tangled. Recording for her role in the film took about 30 minutes. She said "Since the film is mostly silent, they just wanted some vocal 'ambiance' that they could experiment with. We played with lots of different vocal reactions in the session: snorts, gasps, breaths... I think one chuckle made it into the final mix. I'm actually glad they kept it mostly silent—I think it makes the short even more powerful that way." Release The short film premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in June 2012. The short accompanied the theatrical release of Wreck-It Ralph, which was released on November 2, 2012. Christophe Beck's score was released digitally by Walt Disney Records on December 18, 2012. After being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, Paperman was released along with the other Oscar-nominated shorts of its year in theaters by ShortsHD. Paperman was available on Netflix in North America on October 25, 2015, released in the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection, which also included Frozen Fever and Get a Horse!, as one film title on the service. The title was removed from Netflix on October 25, 2021, six years after it was added. The short film, and most of the others that were released on Netflix, were made available to stream individually, rather than one single collection, on Disney+ on November 12, 2021 for the first Disney+ Day. The short was also released on YouTube on January 29, 2013, but is currently private. It was later released on Hulu, but was eventually removed from the service. Paperman was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on the Blu-ray and DVD releases of Wreck-It Ralph on March 5, 2013. Paperman was also released on the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection Blu-ray on August 18, 2015. Reception Film critic Jeff Shannon, writing for RogerEbert.com, called the short "brilliant from start to finish" writing that the film proved "yet again that traditional 2-D animation is every bit as expressive as computer-generated 3-D". Leonard Maltin called the short an "amusing and ingenious love story" noting that it was "perfection itself". There is some discussion regarding some similarities in the