While the series breaks new ground for Pixar, ‘Win or Lose’ bears of the studio’s trademarks — great animation and heartfelt storytelling.

Each of the eight episodes focuses on a different character's perspective in the week leading up to the championship game for an adolescent softball league.

But its newest original project takes the company out of its wheelhouse of either theatrical animation or Pixar's classic animated shorts, for something in between: a full eight-episode animated series created entirely in-house (the previous Monsters at Work series was not actually created there).