Article: You make me feel virtually real

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 ...

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