Then the two would get lost and have to learn to work together to get back home. It evolved into a classic buddy picture, and it pretty much stayed that way from then on. Disney bought the concept, reserving the right to exert strict story supervision and, in , Pixar went to work on Toy Story. The Disney people say they had no qualms about going ahead, despite inexperience. Even though they hadn't made a feature for us before, all the channels were open. With the story reasonably locked down, Lasseter's first step was formulating what the movie's visual feel would be.
It's actually not any easier or cheaper or faster with computers; you just trade one set of problems for another. I decided to art direct and let them worry about the rest.
The result was a singular visual style that shifts radically in crucial moments of the film. For the playroom where the toys live, Eggleston's artists created sketches of a warm and cozy ambience - lots of sunlight and pastels and no dark shadows. But when Buzz is pushed out a window and begins an adventure with Woody, the two enter a foreboding city of night, and the film becomes dark and cold. Eventually, they end up in the room of Sid, the weird kid next door, who builds macabre mutant toys and has a mean dog named Scud.
Sid has barbed wire around his bed, and his belongings are dirty and tattered. The mood here is tense and edgy, the visual milieu menacing, and every kid watching will be glad to get back to the snugness of the playroom for the film's finale.
From the early sketches, a storyboard was drawn delineating each of the movie's shots. These pencil images were then transferred onto video storyreels using an Avid Media Composer. Since this was long before the actors had recorded their parts, scratch dialog was provided for each character's voice by the animators themselves.
Now the production process began to resemble the proverbial pig moving through the python. First, the modelers had to create sculptures and 3-D computer models of the entire film's characters and sets. Some of these started life as computer-drawn diagrams created by artists using the language-based Menv software, which employs a technique resembling claymation to produce puppetlike 3-D images.
Others, such as the pit bull Skud, were first sculpted out of clay and then digitized with a magic wand called the Polhemus 3 Space Digitizer, which the artist touches to key points on the model to create a 3-D surface description in the computer. At this point, articulation controls were coded into each model, enabling the animators to choreograph action and fit mouth and facial movements to the dialog.
Scud, for instance, has 43 controls in his mouth alone to allow him to snarl menacingly and show his fangs. This takes months for each character. By now, months down the line, the actors in Hollywood had recorded their voice parts, so as the animation phase began, dialog was also being added. We'll watch videos of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen recording the dialog, and if I need the character to make an 'e' sound on frame 9, I can plug it in.
We work closely off the attitudes of the actors for cues. Next, the rough animation shots went onto storyreels to replace the sketched storyboards, and, for the first time, Lasseter could begin to see what his movie looked like.
At Disney, they'd always said the biggest challenge was to animate the prince. Once the storyreels were in place, the shading began. Working on Sony color-correct monitors and using Amazon and Adobe Photoshop, layers of paintings were composited with computer images to achieve the desired effects. Specifically for this process, Pixar developed Unwrap, a software program that enables complex 3-D surfaces to be flattened out for painting, much like a Mercator projection map.
With this feature, an artist can unwrap a character's face onto a flat plane, paint in features such as pores or freckles, and then rewrap the finished look back on the model. I'll do things like distress a bookshelf to make it look like wood, put dirt and scuffs on a floorboard, make surfaces look wet or bumpy, shiny or flat. As a team, we do all the little details to make the surfaces look right.
The next phase was lighting, perhaps the most arduous process of all. So far, during the working cut, ambient lighting had been supplied by a single overhead source; now the film would be computer-lit in much the same manner employed on live-action movie sets.
The chief difference here," says Toy Story producer Ralph Guggenheim, "is that it's all done inside the computer. Contrary to live action, we can control the lights and shadows independently of each other.
The bane of all cinematographers' work is that if you have, say, 20 lights, you'll have 20 shadows, but the beautiful thing about synthetic imagery is that you have only the shadows you want.
With all the elements assembled, the film was ready to go to the "render farm," where Pixar's bank of Sun processors would render the movie into its final form. After the processor was fed massive amounts of digital information to determine the animation, shading, and lighting, RenderMan software stirred the mix slowly taking anywhere from 2 to 15 hours per frame in a huge, simmering computational soup.
The finished images were then transferred to the Avid editing system for Lasseter and his team to digitally cut and paste into the final version of Toy Story, which was then used to create the final mm cut. Steve Jobs is so obsessed with Toy Story he can barely stay in his seat when talking about it.
In the fall, Pixar announced a plan to go public, and it goes without saying that a big hit with Toy Story would go a long way to restoring Jobs's somewhat tarnished image as a major entrepreneurial visionary. But beyond that lies the possibility of becoming a latter-day Hollywood mogul in the style of, say, Irving Thalberg, the Hollywood wonderboy who glamorized MGM in the '30s.
Pixar is tied to Disney for two more films following Toy Story - in fact, work has already begun on the second. But after that, who knows? Lasseter always wanted Tom Hanks to play the character of Woody.
Lasseter claimed Hanks " Even if the character, like the one in A League of Their Own , is down-and-out and despicable. Paul Newman also auditioned for the role of Woody, but turned down the role, although he would voice Doc Hudson in Pixar's later success, Cars. Billy Crystal was approached to play Buzz, but turned down the role, which he later regretted, although he would voice Mike Wazowski in Pixar's later success, Monsters, Inc.
Katzenberg took the role to Tim Allen, who was appearing in Disney's Home Improvement , and he accepted. Toy Story was both Hanks and Allen's first animated film role. Pixar presented an early draft of the film to Disney on November 19, The result was disastrous: Walt Disney Feature Animation president Peter Schneider immediately shut down production pending a new script approved by Disney.
Pixar survived the shutdown by falling back on its existing television commercial business while the script was rewritten. The new script made Woody a more likable character, instead of the "sarcastic jerk" he had been. Katzenberg restarted production in February The voice actors returned in March to record their new lines.
It was Whedon's idea to incorporate Barbie as a character who would rescue Woody and Buzz in the film's final act. The idea was dropped after Mattel objected and refused to license the toy. Producer Ralph Guggenheim claimed that Mattel did not allow the use of the toy as "They [Mattel] philosophically felt girls who play with Barbie dolls are projecting their personalities onto the doll.
If you give the doll a voice and animate it, you're creating a persona for it that might not be every little girl's dream and desire. Hasbro likewise refused to license G. Joe but did license Mr. The film's related toys were produced by Thinkway Toys, who secured the worldwide master toy license in Lasseter was against making the film a musical, similar to prior Disney films such as Aladdin and The Lion King.
However, Disney favored the musical format, claiming "Musicals are our orientation. Characters breaking into song is a great shorthand.
It takes some of the onus off what they're asking for. Lasseter claimed, "His songs are touching, witty, and satirical, and he would deliver the emotional underpinning for every scene. The soundtrack for Toy Story was produced by Walt Disney Records and was released on November 22, , the week of the film's release. Toy Story premiered on November 19, , in Hollywood, California.
For its theater run, it was released on November 22, , at the beginning of a 5-day Thanksgiving weekend. The film opened in 2, theaters before later expanding to 2, theaters. The film remained in theaters for 37 weeks.
It also became the third highest grossing animated film after The Lion King and Aladdin Over A Laserdisc re-release as a deluxe edition was released on December 18, This release was later available individually.
On September 6, , a 2-disc Set was released featuring much of the bonus material from the "Ultimate Toy Box", including a retrospective special with John Lasseter, a home theater mix, as well as a new picture. The film was available on Blu-ray for the first time in a Special Edition Combo Pack that was released on March 23, , along with its sequel. There was a DVD- only re-release on May 11, Shake It! Dance and Play It! Disney Wiki Explore.
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The "Disney Movie" has become synonymous with maudlin messages, redneck fundamentalism, anachronistic family values, boneheaded parents, smart-mouthing youngsters, too-hip-to-be-smart teens and insufferable pets. Right outa the gate and right outa the field. Sure, there are "messages," but they are heartfelt, rather than maudlin Woody tells Buzz during Buzz's greatest depression that it matters not what Buzz thinks of himself, what makes him important is what his owner, Andy, thinks of him ; there are emotional segments, which are truly heartbreaking, rather than cheesy when Buzz's escape attempt lands him with a broken arm, proving he is Not A Flying Toy, the lyric, "Clearly I will go sailing no more," launches a thousand hankies ; and the portrayal of Andy's family was Pixar's triumphal achievement.
The funny thing is: though Buzz believes he is real, he still adheres to toy protocol of "playing inert" when humans are in the area. Maybe it's instinct? When he mentions saving a toy from Sid, the vicious boy next door, how does he propose to do it if he is to adhere to the inert protocol? Buzz's ingenuousness regarding his role as a toy infuriates Woody to the point of attempted toy-assassination.
Through a concatenation of accidents, both he and Buzz become lost and must use teamwork, trust and ingenuity to beat their path back to Andy, which finds them ensconced in scorchingly funny vignettes Buzz fastening himself in an over-sized seatbelt; both falling in with green, three-eyed aliens; Buzz hyperventilating as "Mrs.
During a climactic rocket ride, the callback line, "This is not flying - this is falling with style," simply seals this movie's greatness. At least I now have a plausible explanation as to why my toys always got lost: after going about their toy business, they would just go inert anywhere they happened to be, instead of paying attention to their master's infallible toy filing system.
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