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- Erin Strecker

THE MOMENT: Toy Story Revolutionized Animation- and Won Our Hearts 30 Years Ago

To infinity and beyond! Toy Story, the first fully computer-generated full-length film as well as the first movie from upstart studio Pixar, flew in on terillium-carbonic alloy space wings on Nov. 22, 1995. “A lot of people think these movies just come out fully formed,” Pete Docter, then a barely-out-of-college animation supervisor for the film, tells Us. “Not true at all. They’re clunky, they’re bad, and then you continue to refine them. Man, it’s never one person. It’s always this community of people, a group of really tight-knit, creatively in sync people. That’s what makes good movies.” Well, that and the voice talents of beloved Tom Hanks and Tim Allen!

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