Toy Story Storybook Collection

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He's sitting on this landing at the top of the staircase and the camera pulls back and he's this tiny little figure. Toy Story went on to become the highest-grossing domestic film of 1995, beating Batman Forever, Apollo 13 (also starring Tom Hanks), Pocahontas, Casper, Waterworld, GoldenEye, and other films. Lasseter, Stanton, and Docter wrote early story treatments, which were rejected by Disney, who wanted the film's tone to be "edgier".

As part of Disney's 100th anniversary, Toy Story was re-released in selected CINEMARK theaters from July 21 to August 3, 2023, [80] as well as UK cinemas from September 29 to October 5, [81] and Latin American theaters from October 12 to 18 alongside Cinderella. Katzenberg also made it clear that he was only working with Pixar to get access to Lasseter's talents, [13] [14] and that the Pixar team would be signing up to work with a self-described "tyrant" and micro-manager.

The first piece of animation, a 30-second test, was delivered to Disney in June 1992, when the company requested a sample of what the film would look like. Nesbit • Bo Peep • Wheezy • Babyhead • Bullseye • Lenny • The Prospector • Mint in the Box Prospector • Trixie • Big Baby • Green Army Men • Babyface • Janey Doll • Stretch • Bookworm • Rocky Gibraltar • Mr.

Due to the film's creative animation, Richard Corliss of TIME claimed that it was "the year's most inventive comedy".

At the time of its release, it was the third-highest-grossing animated film of all time, after The Lion King (1994) and Aladdin (1992).

A brainstorming session with members of Disney Animation's creative team resulted in the addition of the three-eyed squeaky toy aliens. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. In 1988, Lasseter produced the short film Tin Toy, which was told from the perspective of a toy, referencing Lasseter's love of classic toys.It also included a more adult-oriented staff meeting amongst the toys rather than the juvenile group discussion that had existed in earlier drafts. His world is suddenly turned upside down when Andy gets a Buzz Lightyear action figure for his birthday. Despite this not happening, the first musical number is seen at the end of Toy Story 2 (1999), and Toy Story: The Musical (2012) is the first version of the original to actually feature the cast of characters singing.

To sync the characters' mouths and facial expressions to the actors' recorded voices, animators spent a week per eight seconds of animation, as Lasseter felt that automatic lip syncing would not properly convey a character's emotions. While the film's premise was still about toys' desire to be played with by children, the rest of the film's script, which involved Tinny being left behind at a gas station, meeting up with the dummy, and having a series of adventures before finding their way into a kindergarten classroom where they can be played with every day, was quite different.

This was until character designer Bud Luckey suggested that Woody could be changed to a cowboy ventriloquist dummy. The film required 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 frames of animation in total, divided between 1,561 shots that totaled over 77 minutes. As a compromise, although the characters would not sing, the movie would feature non-diegetic songs as background music. Eventually, all of the ventriloquist dummy aspects of the character were deleted as the dummy looked "sneaky and mean".