Toy Story
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- discussed in biography
- In John Lasseter
…work on films such as Toy Story (1995), the first fully computer-animated feature, and its sequels (1999, 2010).
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- In John Lasseter
- Disney Company
- In Disney Company: Return to prominence
…potential with the enormously successful Toy Story (1995) and Toy Story 2 (1999), films that Disney jointly developed and produced with Pixar Animation Studios. Live-action features also found success, especially 101 Dalmatians (1996), a remake of Disney’s own 1961 animated feature.
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- In Disney Company: Return to prominence
- history of animation
- In animation: Nontraditional forms
…to lush features, such as Toy Story (1995; the first entirely computer-animated feature-length film), A Bug’s Life (1998), Finding Nemo (2003), The Incredibles (2004), WALL-E (2008), and Up (2009). Computer techniques are commonly incorporated into traditional line animations, giving films such as
Read More - In film: The experimental and animated film
…first feature-length completely computer-animated work, Toy Story (1995), distributed by Disney. According to the company, some 110,064 separate frames of computer animation were made, and 800,000 machine hours were needed overall, creating at a maximum rate of 3.5 minutes of screen time per week. The huge success of Toy Story…
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- In animation: Nontraditional forms
- Pixar Animation Studios
- In Pixar
…next several years working on Toy Story, which opened in theatres in 1995 as the first entirely computer-animated feature film. The family-friendly movie, which humorously imagined the private lives of toys, was a critical and commercial hit, and it earned Lasseter, its director, an Academy Award for special achievement.
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- In Pixar
- SGI
- In SGI: Hollywood animation
…entirely computer-generated, the Disney Company’s Toy Story, was created with SGI’s computers.
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- In SGI: Hollywood animation
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- Metcalf
- In Laurie Metcalf
…in the hit animated movie Toy Story (1995) and its sequels.
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- In Laurie Metcalf
- Rickles
- In Don Rickles
…drama Casino (1995), and the Toy Story series of animated films (1995, 1999, and 2010), in which he voiced the character of Mr. Potato Head; archival sound of Rickles’s voice was used for Toy Story 4, which was released in 2019, two years after his death.
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- In Don Rickles
- Shawn
- In Wallace Shawn
…of family movies, including four Toy Story films (1995, 1999, 2010, and 2019), The Incredibles (2004), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010), and Penguin Monster Beach Party (2015) and its sequels.
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- In Wallace Shawn