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6/26/2025, 11:49:47 PM
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There's no such thing as luck. Toy Story 1 is one of the most excellently crafted animated films, even beyond the fact that it was a benchmark for all proceeding CG films.
The real thing is that Lasseter was not just some random dummy that just bumbled into Pixar's offices one day, and accidently created a great film while stealing all the credit. He was around with Pixar since the beginning. He made their short animations (which were groundbreaking and award-winning in their own right), and that eventually become the basis of Toy Story. Toy Story was a decade of work, if you look at it as something that they were building and learning towards. Lasseter had a background in Disney to begin with, which is why he was into animation, and how he was able to assemble their earliest shorts. He applied Disney's animation principles and approach to character-driven stories into the world of computer animation
Fun fact: The first time Lasseter was fired from Disney (in 1983), was because he had made an experimental 2D/3D hybrid (Where the Wild Things Are), and the bosses hated it and thought it was stupid. And then merely 3 years later, Disney did 3D hybrid in The Great Mouse Detective (as well as all later films). Lasseter was at the forefront of 3D animation long before almost everyone else, and he impressed fucking Frank and Ollie to the point where they said Walt would've loved computer animation. To say he is mediocre is completely nonsense. He earned his place in animation and film history.
There's no such thing as luck. Toy Story 1 is one of the most excellently crafted animated films, even beyond the fact that it was a benchmark for all proceeding CG films.
The real thing is that Lasseter was not just some random dummy that just bumbled into Pixar's offices one day, and accidently created a great film while stealing all the credit. He was around with Pixar since the beginning. He made their short animations (which were groundbreaking and award-winning in their own right), and that eventually become the basis of Toy Story. Toy Story was a decade of work, if you look at it as something that they were building and learning towards. Lasseter had a background in Disney to begin with, which is why he was into animation, and how he was able to assemble their earliest shorts. He applied Disney's animation principles and approach to character-driven stories into the world of computer animation
Fun fact: The first time Lasseter was fired from Disney (in 1983), was because he had made an experimental 2D/3D hybrid (Where the Wild Things Are), and the bosses hated it and thought it was stupid. And then merely 3 years later, Disney did 3D hybrid in The Great Mouse Detective (as well as all later films). Lasseter was at the forefront of 3D animation long before almost everyone else, and he impressed fucking Frank and Ollie to the point where they said Walt would've loved computer animation. To say he is mediocre is completely nonsense. He earned his place in animation and film history.
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