Sunday, November 22, 2015
Agencies
INTERNATIONAL.- Writing 20 years ago, Pixar did a somersault in the animation. He 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 to the film’s director, John Lasseter, for its achievements in the field of computer animation.
there was still the category of the Oscar for best animated feature She established in 2001, but still, “Toy Story” a statue, something that had previously only happened with two other animated films was “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1938 and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” in 1988
“Toy Story” guessed. 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.
The germ of Pixar goes back to 1979, with a division that was part of the company of George Lucas and Lucasfilm 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 Adventures of André & amp; Wally B.” short., Released in 1984, a year before Steve Jobs bought the 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 Pixar and Disney in 1991 to ally for the first animated feature computer.
But before “Toy Story” saw the light, there were many difficulties, as the initial refusal of Disney to the idea of giving up some control in the hands of another company, leading to Pixar to consider producing the film alone.
But everything changed after Disney reached an agreement with Tim Burton to deal only with the distribution of “The Nightmare Before Christmas”.
It was the first time accepted distribute a film that had not occurred and decided to offer the same deal to Pixar and Lasseter, enabling starting the project.
If it had not been for the film Burton probably it would not have been able to make “Toy Story”, as acknowledged recently Lasseter.
But the agreement came and Lasseter and his team began work on a project they 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 used in “Tin Toy”.
The toys were the perfect choice for the type of animation that Pixar was posed, full of color and with a tried to move away from any semblance of reality, as Lasseter told several times.
Nothing to do with what was then Disney, which released “The Lion King” in 1994 and “Pocahontas” in 1995, two examples of a style somewhat stagnant still take a few years to evolve at the pace set by Pixar and Dreamworks.
Pixar stepped forward to change and “Toy Story” revolutionized the whole concept of animation cinema which was no longer directed solely at children.
A thug humor, irony, some funny and awkward characters and nothing excessive sugar from the Disney film productions made a global and immediate success.
It was the highest grossing of the year in the United States and 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,” “Finding Nemo,” “The Incredibles,” “Ratatouille,” “Wall-E”, “Up” or “Inside Out”, not to mention the following two “Toy Story” are other . of the jewels that Pixar has done since then
But do not forget that it all started with “Toy Story” and the now legendary phrase Buzz Lightyear: “To infinity and beyond!” . EFE
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