We've all got Toy Story fever right now, and Pixar's YouTube account is a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes gems. One standout video features the iconic "Falling with Style" scene placed side-by-side with its original hand-drawn storyboard. It's a wonderful glimpse into Pixar's creative process, showing both how the character designs evolved and how much personality is packed into those early sketches – you can almost hear Tom Hanks and Tim Allen saying the lines by looking at the sketch.
It's remarkable how closely the storyboards mirror the final cut, from framing and angles to the action itself. The animators made a lot of decisions early on in the process that ended up being the way the animation was cut.
Toy Story was the world's first CG animated film, and it's easy to forget nowadays that this particular process from storyboard to full feature had never been done before. Watching this process is a reminder of the technological risk taken by Pixar when making this film.
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