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Article: You make me feel virtually real
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 21, 1996
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In its four years of production, Toy Story employed some rather
impressive brainpower - both human and computational. "I think it's
safe to say that we had more PhDs making this film than on any
other film in history," says its producer, Ralph Guggenheim.
Toy Story was produced for Disney by the computer animation
company Pixar and is essentially a comedy-adventure buddy picture.
"The whole notion of a buddy picture is that you create two
characters who are polar opposites and you put them in a situation
where they have to work together and grow. You can see the whole
arc of the character's development and that allows for some really
great acting," says the director, John Lasseter. And ...