Now 20 years ago, Pixar did a somersault in the animation.
The young studio decided to produce the first computer animated feature film, and despite the initial reluctance of Disney and bad omens, was a great success. Toy Story not only swept the box office, it marked a new era.
It was such a revolution in the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences and Arts awarded a special Oscar for director of the film, John Lasseter , for its achievements in the field of computer animation. Still there was no Oscar category for best animated feature She established in 2001, but still, Toy Story was a statue, something that had only happened before with two animated films: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and 1938 Who engñó Roger Rabbit? in 1988.
Toy Story was a huge leap in style, depth, technical and thematic animation, in addition to this film, Pixar stood up to freehold Disney Studios and opened opportunities for the entry of more competitors.
Pixar germ dates back to 1979, with a division that was part of the Lucasfilm company George Lucas and was created to develop technology intended for computer art cinema. In 1983, John Lasseter, who worked at Disney, he was signed to shape the computer-animated film. The first result was the short film The Adventures of André & amp; Wally B. , launched in 1984, a year before Steve Jobs purchase division and established as an independent company under the name of Pixar.
Followed Luxo Jr , Red’s Dream , Tin Toy -. Oscar for best animated short in 1988, Knick Knack before to ally Pixar and Disney in 1991 for the first computer animated feature film.
But before Toy Story to see the light, there were many difficulties, as the Disney initial rejection of the idea of leaving some control in the hands of another company, which led to Pixar to consider producing the film alone. But everything changed after Disney reached an agreement with Tim Burton to handle only the distribution of The Nightmare Before Christmas .
It was the first Once they accepted distribute a film that had not occurred and decided to offer the same deal to Lasseter and Pixar, which allowed starting the project. Had it not been for the film Burton, probably no one would have performed Toy Story , as recognized Lasseter recently.
But the agreement came and Lasseter and his team began to work in a project that he wanted to move away from the traditional Disney style. They did not want it to be musical, or repeat the stereotype of bad and good. And they began to think about the idea of toys that had already been used in Tin Toy . Toys were the perfect choice for the type of animation that Pixar was posed, full of color and with an intended shift away from any semblance of reality, as Lasseter told several times.
Nothing to do with it then made Disney, which released The Lion King in 1994 Pocahontas in 1995, two examples of a style somewhat stagnant still take a few years to evolve to the rhythm marked by Pixar and Dreamworks.
Pixar went ahead and change Toy Story completely revolutionized the concept of animated film, which was no longer directed solely at children. A thug humor, irony, some funny and awkward characters and nothing excessive sugar from Disney Productions made the film a global and immediate success.
It was the highest grossing of the year in the United States and the second worldwide, grossing over $ 362 million, a figure showing that Pixar was on the right track. Woody and Buzz Lightyear became heroes in spite of very distant personalities stereotypes animation, which became a trademark in the following films, also with protagonists as imperfect as tender.
Monsters Inc. , Finding Nemo , The Incredibles , Ratatouille , Wall-E , Up or Heavy-Mind , without forgetting the next two installments of Toy Story are other gems that Pixar has done since then . But do not forget that it all started with Toy Story and with the now legendary phrase Buzz Lightyear: “To infinity and beyond!”
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