Toy Story 2 [DVD]

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It delivers comments from the cast and crew (even musical performers like Sarah McLachlan and Riders in the Sky) over which of Andy's toys is, well, the coolest. We were just the small film and we were off playing in our sandbox," co-producer Karen Jackson said. Brannon focused on development, story and animation, Lasseter was in charge of art, modeling and lighting, and Unkrich oversaw editorial and layout.

Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses.In the sound department, press materials state that the film has been "remastered for optimum home theater experience.

In November 1997, Disney executives Roth and Peter Schneider viewed the film's story reels, with some finished animation, in a screening room at Pixar. The lead stereographer Bob Whitehill oversaw this process and sought to achieve an effect that impacted the film's emotional storytelling. The second Egg, which requires some digging, is a puzzling 20-second clip of Woody (with disturbingly protruding ears) acting as a pitcher in a baseball game.Lastly, "International Scene" (1:45) offers an alternate version of a shot from Toy Story 2, in which Buzz's patriotic speech is punctuated not by the American flag, but by a spinning globe, fireworks, and a different piece of score from Randy Newman. Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue, a video game for the PC, PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and Dreamcast, was released in November 1999.

He wrote two original songs – " When She Loved Me", performed by Sarah McLachlan, and "Woody's Roundup", performed by Riders in the Sky – besides composing the score. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly said "It's a great, IQ-flattering entertainment both wonderful and wise". The film has seen multiple home media releases and a theatrical 3-D re-release in 2009 as part of a double feature with the first film, 10 years after its initial release. In 2013, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Frozen both surpassed Toy Story 2 to have the largest Thanksgiving weekend debut. The idea of a squeak-toy penguin with a broken squeaker also resurfaced from an early version of Toy Story.The overwork spun out into carpal tunnel syndrome for some animators, [22] and repetitive strain injuries for others. It was sung at two different points during the film by Tom Hanks as Woody and Robert Goulet, the singing voice of Wheezy. To achieve the dust visible after Woody is placed on top of a shelf, the crew was faced with the challenge of animating dust, an incredibly difficult task. Making Woody's Roundup" (2:00) explains how Pixar made Woody's old TV show look like an authentic old-fashioned live action puppet show via computer animation with distortion and the kinescope effect. Even then, you'll be gaining detail and resolution, but the element itself won't be getting any more digitally perfect.

Toy Story 2 is a 1999 American animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. Recently, we've done several changes to help out this wiki, from deleting empty pages, improving the navigation, adding a rules page, as well as merging film infoboxes.

If all these moves would appear to keep Toy Story 2 on the right track, how is it not everything that its predecessor was? As Lasseter and Unkrich explain in the introduction, they wanted to make the moment less distinctly American for viewers from other nations. The story originated with him wondering what a toy would find upsetting, how a toy would feel if it were not played with by a child or, worse, a child growing out of a toy.