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The Evolution of Toy Story’s Animation

Pixar changed the world on how they view the animation industry in 1995 with Toy Story, its first first full-length computer-animated movie. Seeing how Toy Story 4 improved over the last 20 years, it's far from done changing the game. Nobody had ever seen anything like "Toy Story" when it was first published in 1995. And the animators had to do some incredible things to bring it to life. The animators required 117 computers running 24 hours a day to make "Toy Story." Depending on how complex the frame is, it could take anything from 45 minutes to 30 hours to render. Producer Jonas Rivera claims that if they had to make "Toy Story" today, they could do so faster than you could watch the entire film. However, due to the film's complexity, rendering a single frame will take anything from 60 to 160 hours. Animating fur, whether computer-generated or stop-motion, is difficult. This is due to the fact that it entails animating thousands, if not millions, of individual body parts.

Toy Story became a critical and commercial success soon after its publication, and in many ways. In many ways, children watching the film bring a fresh imagination to the possibilities these toys might bring him, just as Pixar did during the making of Toy Story with the filmmakers playing the part of those children who would fill movie theaters around the world in the early 1990s when computers were only only inexpensive enough and strong enough to produce a complete feature film. In order to please Disney, the relatively low-budget animators signed on to create Toy Story not for the money, but for the childlike wonder and enthusiasm about the new technology. This included Woody's plaid shirts in pre-production. Toy Story 4 breaks even more animation records in terms of box office and quality, so now is a perfect time to look back and see how Pixar Animation has improved and progressed over the years. Toy Story 4's visuals alone demonstrate how much Pixar has progressed over the past 24 years, but this transformation of pets and animals in the Toy Story films is not exclusive to the franchise; over the years, Pixar has used other films to push their limits, presenting different designs and becoming more detailed. Lotso duckie and bunny sound like living stuffed animals thanks to the attention to detail in the fur. Toy Story 4 does have some main rain scenes, and the animated details are much superior to what was possible in the original film, another Pixar franchise that aided in the improvement of animation in details. Pixar has shown that animation isn't just about beautiful visuals; it's about using those visuals to tell a stunning story that makes us laugh, weep, and feel inspired by what we see on film, and while Pixar has evolved over the years, its core values have remained the same.

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