Hearing a Disney documentary where people candidly talk about how the producers forced them to make a movie they didn't want to make and what saved the whole thing was them saying "fuck that, we'll make the movie we actually want to!" I don't think that would ever happen these days

As a 3D modeler in college this really feels like something special. Seeing the programs they used to animate and 3D model these characters and objects was REALLY cool. I had no clue they modeled an actual physical head for woody and buzz and scanned the verts in in order to model it. That was really interesting!

Edgy Woody was definitely an asshole, but holy crap did Tom Hanks do a fantastic job voicing those lines!

Saw Toy Story at a "pre-preview preview" in the UK where the audience was a bunch of animators, film makers and TV crew, months before it was released into the cinemas here. I was a kid and my Dad was in the industry so managed to nab two tickets to the screening. I can still remember the audible gasp of a hundred or so grown men as the film started and then the actual round of applause at the end. We all recognised on that rainy morning in the Odeon cinema, Union Street, Bristol that what we were watching was a revolutionary piece of film making and that 2D animation was almost immediately on the ropes.

I was 15 years old when this came out on our screens. The coolest thing I ever did in school with a computer was code a robotic arm to pick up a pencil, move it and put it down somewhere else. I'm here because I am in college as a mature student and working on a presentation on animation and how it works. I am incredibly awe inspired by both 2-D and 3-D CGI animated movies because of the sheer amount of time and work that has went into it. I totally appreciate the art, the time, the imagination, the sheer volume of work - thank you animators, artists, voice actors, sound production, storytellers, composers, admin, etc etc. I watched Toy Story for the first time when I was a kid at the cinema and have a sense of how people felt back in 1937 when they first watched Snow White. The birth of these two styles of animation was never really done before on the scale it had been done at its inception and to see something that no one had ever seen before - you don't get much more wow factor than that.

7:23 "Stop! Don't throw him off the bed! Throw him out the window!" Top ten anime betrayals right there.

"You don't deserve a ten gallon hat on your pint sized head" is such a banger

It was cool to see at 46:43 how the animators had a fixed camera on Woody's face at all times so you could make sure his expressions were correct no matter the angle or position he was placed in the actual scene

As a kid, I was like how did they do that!? I am obsess with 3D animations, and Toy Story was one of those animation films that I fell in love with, It's pretty creative!

26:52 You know you did a good job when the actor reacts like this:

That original woody knocking buzz out the window scene is crazy

Thank God for Blender. This 90s software looks weird lol

A preschool where they never get outgrown? Wow that story was in the box for a long time

Love how different things are and yet the exact same. We've improved the how but the general idea has not changed. I love John Lasseter and Ed Catmull, their stories are so inspiring

Not only did this movie have great technological impact, but many kids started caring for their neglected toys after it came out lmao.

This is the best 'behind the scenes' documentary i've ever seen

I love learning about art, design, animation and storytelling! And i love doing it too! But it always takes soooo long, so much effort, time, patience, and rethinking.. 😖

10:32 lol I loved how they almost went the Toy Story 3 route early on

I never realised just how much work is involved in making this film with the limitations of computers of the time and just how good it was. And the people behind the movie were in their 30ties when making it are now around 60ties.

26:50 Tim Allen genuinely blown away by what he is seeing

15:57 Funny how Andrew Stanton said "even if we were making a movie about whales", and he'd go onto directing Finding Nemo lol

I remember when this came out - it was a huge deal! Absolute game changer, and then everyone tried to copy the success of it. Toy Story remained the best CGI film for a long time. There were imitators but nothing really matched it for ages.

for people who don’t know cgi pixar basically made one of the greatest, most iconic movies of all time using sticks, stones, and ooga-booga caveman language

Woody was so sinister lmao

one of the greatest movies of all time. The first big computer animated movie, and IMO nothing has beat it sense.

The models are really low poly, especially of the background objects, but it is impressive they managed to do this with the mid 90's tech.

The rotating models at the end look more like Toy Story 2 models to me. Thank you for uploading this!

I'm glad I found this video. The animation process are very underrated... a lot of work comes into something like this and you never really stop to think and appreciate what you see... I was born in 2002 so I wasn't very aware of the impact this 3D movie had in animation.. but I still LOVED this franchise as a kid, everything was so real, every character was so unique... it was beautiful. I admire these people a lot, they created something incredible... how inspiring

I love the fact that they just used clay sculptures to create the modelling.

Had Toy Story on VHS and watched it so many times as a kid. Such a lovely story and happy they didnt go for the prior story

This is insane how much work goes into something the audience takes for granted these days. Thanks for the video.

How time just fly by. Love this movie. I saw Toy Story in the cinemas on its premier realise in Sweden. I was 9 years old back then, and today i am 37 years old❤ Its been a while :)

this gives me such a bigger appreciation for this movie

What makes this more insane is even with all that caveman technology, the animation is amazing lmao

If woody was a jerk like in the original reel but there was comedy inserted it would make a good adult swim style parody

Shame the Disney / Pixar movies have become unwatchable 😢. Great stories were the priority in the late 90s early 2000s.

Huge TS1 fanboy. Managed to see if five times at the cinema when it released. At the time I had bought an Amiga and was teaching myself 3D. Around 1998 I flew from Sydney to San Francisco as I had a dream of working at Pixar. However upon arrival, I realised that work wasn’t worth the lifestyle shift so I remained in Sydney. Fortunately Sydney had enough opportunities (over the subsequent decades) for me to work on some incredible projects without sacrificing quality of life. Above all, computer graphics are one of the amazing human creations we take for granted. And yes, early 90’s animation software was incredibly clunky! Pixar had created a program called Marionette, which had some neat optimisations to allow for somewhat interactive performance, yet it was very cumbersome to work with. This only further strengthens the respect i have for the incredible team at Pixar who created not only the art and personality we see in TS1, but also the tools to make that vision a possibility (90 percent of the software used was created by a small team at Pixar). Historic stuff.

There’s something so heartwarming and innocent watching these guys talk about how passionate and determined they were to make Toy Story a classic movie. They achieved it.

this movie made me so happy as a kid loved it, still do

CGI rocks big time and I never ever worked with computers in order to create 3D animation before, unless you're in Eben Ostby's shoes.

23:38 how fascinating to see how they look for the reference before youtube existed

I guess the edge version would have worked if woody was the main antagonist. I am assuming the original idea was to have him become good as the movie goes on.

I bet it's probably lost on kids today watching this for the first time that half of the novelty of the film was the computer animation, that was really the big deal.

20:32 i don't think i'm going be able to sleep tonight

They took old Macintosh computers (they were probably brand new at the time) and pushed the tech to the absolute limits. Amazing behind the scenes look

14:31 This was pretty much when I got to know Tom Hanks, along with Tim Allen and the other actors who played the characters ever since I saw the movie when I was a toddler.

5:00 That scene made me laugh so hard

Filmmakers for 100 years: "If the studio takes over, the movies gonna be shit" Studios snorting coke: "Anyways, I start blasting"

The film that impacted animation today

One of my biggest question was that if Buzz thought that he is a real spaceranger and not a toy why did freezes like others whenever Andy comes??

I think Toy Story 1 and 2 are very liminal looking movies because, as far as it came with the CGI process, it's still got that sorta early CGI jank. The shadows aren't quite as sharp as you'd think they'd be, the lightings just slightly blurry, it's incredible but you know it's not quite right. It comes out in the afternoon scenes especially with those huge pink tones on the house. It's what the world looked like to you as a kid, that's even something the animators said. Even the animation sorta has it at times with Mr. Potatohead or Woody's laugh. Nowadays the CGI for Toy Story is basically photorealistic.

@6:31 "Springweiner" has to be my new favorite word now rofl.

there is something in 1990s renders which make them so honest, so believable, yet sometimes surreal. it's not in terms of realism, though.... mimicking reality is not essential to create a fictional universe, I think this is where modern 3D took a sort of wrong turn.....

“They end up at kind of a toy heaven: at a preschool. Where they’ll never get lost or outgrown” Geez, I wonder if Pixar ever decided to revisit this plot point!

20 years later and an entire generation has grown up on their computers and is capable of doing this stuff through sheer exposure and the occasional KZfaq tutorial. Rip anyone going to college/university though.

of COURSE it was Katzenberg who almost ruined the film lol

It'd be amazing if you guys did a documentary on the video game Riven from 1997, some of the greatest computer graphics in history, made by a really interesting bunch of awesome people.

I love the original idea of Woody being a gaslighting dickhead 💀💀

5:02 this looks like Family Guy doing a cutaway gag about this scene and it's absolutely crazy.

The Rig they made the animators walk in to nail the Army Soldiers movement was GENIUS!

I love steve jobs, but his worst decision was to sell Pixar to Disney.

Its weird that technology gets better but still the original old stuff looks better then new movies And they had to figure everything out because its all new tech and software. Just like in terminator 2. Nothing beats hard work and talent

As a kid i always wondered why the arcade/ps1 games use sharp polygons instead of spherical shapes with shading of toy story that look real. I wasn't aware that it was the same technology but with a lot more polygons, computing power and not realtime.

Impressive! These people are creative geniuses! Thanks to them for creating such beautiful and inspiring experiences.

Thank you for this documentary, almost got tears, seein how much passion they put in a movie that drove my youth.

360k views and only 80 likes? Are you crazy people ? Thanks a lot for making and sharing that 😊 !

I watched all Movies on DisneyPlus and the Evolution is Very impressive!

14:42 My Favorite part!

45:04 This shot was animated a year before the film’s release

GREAT TOY STORY- CGI MAKING (1995 ) HD !!!!

Early concepts for Toy Story and Woody especially, really disturbs me. Woody's design and personality was so grotesque early on, and there were so many garish colours it feels like 'American Magee's Toy Story'. The way things mellowed out with Tom Hanks and Tim Allen and the cooler colour palette is like the greatest IP development ever.

Animation feels like mining gold... everybody loves the golden reflection, but few people takes time thinking on the tons of land that were processed to get the valued metal. thats why pasion and vision is so important.

Ahah old woody had the same character type as the evil teddy bear in i dont know which one in the sequel. aha, that is funny. You know, Andy like's toys he can find, I love how the creators started out Andy's room and toy life as this struggle to survive and stay relevant. But they changed that around by the time of release, giving Woody the leadership arc, becoming jealous, fixing his mistake and learning throughout the process what it means to be a toy. By the final toy story movie, Woody managed to let go of being a kid's toy and stayed with Boo or however her name was. - Aha can't believe its been that many years, - Computer graphics have taken over the globe. And yes... Even today, Toy Story graphics are superb.

I knew it was a lot of work especially using early 90's tech but damn 3 years just story-boarding the story.. I never imagined that level of detail...

I remember this movie and it's on Disney plus. Congratulations for the song you've got a friend in me.

God bless all these beautiful minds for their team effort in crafting such technological achievement

Disney producers been stuffing their movies since forever.

👍👍👍👍great Hollywood Documentary and so honest ...what an atmosphere thnx😢❤ The sketches are great😂😂😂

Toy story is pretty much as perfect as a film can be

6:03 Rex looks like he's scared

Stating that making things on PC is more about ignoring features than picking features is more true today than ever.

6:15 wow Woody was a jerk. Like I’m glad they made him a lot nicer if I had seen that when I was a kid I would’ve freaked out. Lol

Ayyy it's the subdivision surface dude.

10:30 That idea Was used in toy Story 4

Wow those computers look so limited….like they just came out or something

No ips led screen No intel i series processor No high end vga No windows 10 . . And they can make the best 3d animation in the world.... Very2 amazing!

Would be so cool to see the old version remade today looking like it would in 95 I saw this movie in theatre... Id love to say "good times" but I was a child born in 91. I can assume it was a good time. haha

yep, it is some kind of Unix system. the file permissions at 23:31 just confirm that...

wow, just imagine how it would have shaped the storys if woody remained that way

really suck how society values have chance so much that has affected the writing of entertainment media for the worst.

Years later this movie is still great and it also paves wave for new movie 🍿 and they look back at it for reference

20:32 is deeply haunting in ways i cannot describe

I always thought toy story was made on SGI computers, not a bunch of sun sparcstations. Toy story 2 was SGI though.

The best behind the scenes documentary video ever made

To be honest, the original idea was much funnier. I'm not saying that the final version isn't a fantastic movie, I'm just saying that in that version it would have been a great comedy

crazily talented people. props.

11:02 That TV was modeled after the one used in Toy Story 2

Seeing how Woody was essentially a villain at one point was a bit of a "wow" moment. But Having R.Lee. go off on him 2 seconds later balanced it out in a way that I was kind of okay with it. lol ALso the babay form Tin Toy always has been, and always will be nightmare fuel.

0:34 Pete Doctor, the first real boy created by Disney/Pixar

It's weird watching an HD video from your channel lol