Pixar's Toy Story: Greatest Milestone Achieved In Animation History

Tami Nguyen

September 25, 2015

CO101 B7

TA: Haley Bascom

Introduction of CGI in Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story:

Greatest Milestone Achieved in Animation History Imagine drawing thousands of movie scenes at the pace of 24 frames per second. One may forget that many beloved animated movies were once drawn by hand. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and Dumbo were a few of the first films released by Disney. Now with the availability and increasing use of technology, the so-called impossible scenes can be achieved with the rise of CGI, Computer Generated Images. Disney and Pixar created a stunning impact in the film industry by transitioning into the digital world and incorporating computers in their animated musical films at the end of

The stunning animation was the first feature film from Disney and Pixar, and the studios presented this masterpiece in 1995, which triumphantly brought the film protagonists, Woody and Buzz, to life with their cutting edge 3D animation and flawless storyline. Toy Story blossomed into a well-marketed film that not only targeted imaginative children, but it was—and still is—appealing to audiences of all ages. Derived from hundreds of artists who used 3D computer graphics tools to entirely create the film, Toy Story proudly brings toys to life and presents the first full-length, all-digital movie (Robertson). The animation, which successfully became one of the greatest trilogies that spanned over fifteen years elaborates

In a digital age where technology is incorporated in every day tasks, technology was taken to a whole new level with a “remarkable creative team at Disney and Pixar's brilliant computer graphics scientists” provided by the talented John Lasseter, Toy Story’s film director, and his creative team consisting of one hundred and ten people, which included thirty technical directors as well as twenty-eight animators