How are Characters Animated at Pixar? - Toy Story Behind the Scenes 

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Veggietales made in 1993

Yes, and look at how that turned out.

CrAzYgIrL Yea, veggietales was made 1993 and the animations looked like it came in like 2002, when I first watched "Wheres God when I'm scared" I thought this animation came in like 2002, i thought it was really new but this came in the late 90s

Sorry to burst your bubble, but it uses basic static backgrounds, has very few animations and all of the characters are very geometric and rounded. It in no way compares to Toy Story

Ik im not saying it's better, im just saying it looks good for a animation created in 1993

What will it be like if they all won the Academy Award for Best Animation? That would be splendid.

​@@reneastle8447 It only won 1 Oscar for the special achievement award since there was no best animated feature yet. However it got 3 extra nominations for Oscar in best screenplay soundtrack and song, this was back when the Oscars treated animation as cinema.

@@keithmoon3190 True. Still, if the Oscars still treat animation as cinema, that would be great.

Bad Hombre That doesn't necessarily mean that he's a child

I'm more impressed at the dinosaurs from Jurassic park..; They had NOTHING to work with, but it still looks better than most (all?) recent 3D things added to real images... They really worked on the lighting in order for the models to be believable even in real footage. incredible, they had like 486DX. And NO path tracing at the time, of course... Toy story was rendered with a path tracer, I think... Not sure, though.

older than my sister AHHH

What do you mean by older than your sister? Toy-story came out in 95, and at that time this PC was not considered old.

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Nobody commented in 2 years...

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He looks like a boy band member there 😅

he looks like a baby

Daniel Thrasher ok

I didnt expect you here lol.

Didn't expect to see you here!

that's is weird.

ok.

then the application crashes, and you had Windows NT freeze so you had to reboot, reload everything and hope it doesn't crash again. The horror show, there is a Dante Circle of Hell somewhere with just this.

simio1337 they didn’t even use Windows NT for Toy Story 1 though. It was afaik those old unbreakable SGI machines

@@simio1337 The Machines used Irix as Operating System. An Unix System V based OS and it was aware of its time.

They had patience because they could buy a computor with 64 gb of ram back then

You know how to get that software, used in 1995? For years I search

It isn't public.... it was their software

Judothesurviver IT was some Silicon Graphics program

Filipe1020 Are you forgetting Veggietales? Veggietales was made in 1993 the mid 90s when Computers were hard to make and Phil Vischer still animates it like it was made in the 2010s. Veggietales was way more harder to animate than Toy Story

It's not a matter on who did it harder, its a matter of setting animation softwares standard. And developing that software wasn't done by pixar alone, it was a colab with Computer Scientist at the time. Bill Gates also holds an important role on Pixar development as a studio and their software.

Actually modelling and animation programs are pretty easy. Sure the vast amount of buttons look daunting at first, but when you learn their functions and how they interact with each other, it becomes second nature.

Matt Dymond for sure but don’t call it easy its not I’ve done it and it’s not easy but it’s also not impossible

Well I do it myself, I'm speaking from experience.

Matt Dymond understood. I’ve been doing it in college and I’m sure once you get used too it it becomes a lot easier, but with anything takes a lot of practice to get to top quality levels

What software would you reccomend?

Holy shit I just noticed Woody's face on the screen!

I was imagining Pete Doctor thinking “this is what I have to look at for the next 6 weeks” 😂

Correct me if I'm wrong but Apple, yes the company that created iPods and iPhones, created this software for Pixar only

They're the true unsung heroes of animation

A few well known CGI pioneers work for Pixar, Ed Catmull comes to mind. I think they develop their own software in house.

God made it...

Pixar did their own software*. There are many pioneering CG papers published over several decades, from authors who worked at Pixar. *At one time (in the early days) they even did their own hardware, the “Pixar Image Computer”.

Justin Y. Ayyyyy justin

What the actual heck are you doing here

Leave this place semon

And hes here.

dude..... u are really everywhere.... even old videos.... u are almost comment all videos on this youtube right?

no its not....

It is hardwork as in time consuming to animate each frame and making sure the overall animation looks right. Not to mention snycing the voices with the character's movements and mouths to it as well. Animating which so many people think it is simple to do, don't know behind the scenes on how these animated movies are created.

+ Outer ParaDOCX I have 10 years of blender experience in rigging, blend shapes, and of course animation. Stop talking shit when you clearly don't know what you are talking about.

Outer ParaDOCX I find frame by frame animation is more hardwork than cgi.

Jus takes a long time

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this made me actually laugh. like not just a "hmm" laugh like a real laugh

I think i get it but i don't want to think i get it.. Am i wrong lol ?

Oh no, the meme...

I think all animation is tedious. It was probably even worse when you had to draw each frame by hand

Like Naruto? I noticed the animation in the Shippuden series have gotten better 3D then the first series in Naruto. Now look at Boruto, is even better!

now imagine how much their getting paid. Its not that bad

Stop motion / claymation is probably worse

Ducktor Quack What about that Coraline movie? That was all stop motion and claymation.

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26 LIKES?! That's my record so far

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200 likes

Samer Khatib Lol is that your work in the profile pic? That’s fucking terrifying 😂

Congrats on Giraffe Town, amazing game!! 😁

They pay us sh1t, treat us like sh1t and replace us easily. Not passionate as I was when I was a kid. Reality suckkks!

The Weirdo Pete Docter too! Aka the guy who created Monsters Inc., Up, and Inside Out. Lol

He was SKINNY back then! I wonder what is going to happen to him after the #metoo accusations.

@@Little1Cave And now the creator of Soul.

Houston Helicopter Tours Inc. takes 4 years bud

they still use sliders and they do it just fine. back then their software was called marionette, now its dubbed presto and you can look up demonstrations of it on youtube.

Woody's face is just. Pain.

As I saw Woody's face I immediately scrolled down expecting this exact timestamp comment.

Looks like Michael Jackson’s thriller.

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StalabTheDabber 2:0 is it because of his skeleton 🤔

it almost looks like a robot

Waltman13 kinda

That's because this was when they were making the movie, it takes a long time to finish the model. They have to create his model and move his body, then add all of the other shapes to it, then put the colors in it and then render it to get rid of the pixels and stuff to make it look like what you see in the final product. Which can take up to 4 years.

jerel that's Alias PowerAnimator/Autodesk Maya for you.

Jeffrey Thrash but to be honest, Autodesk Maya is what it started it all (it was called Alias PowerAnimator at it's time)

I've studied a little bit of classical animation and 3D animation and I must say that 2D takes a lot more effort since each frame has to be drawn by hand on special paper, a walk cycle of 25 frames, for instance, takes several hours to draw. Making things move on the computer is easier since you're working with a model.

even 2d animation is done in software. The way you mentioned is ancient

i think they're equal in terms of effort. just in different ways. 2d animation is more execution and hinges on physical abilities. 3D animation is more mental, since you're learning the ins and outs of a complex program and have to manipulate the program to get the desired look.

blender is cheap, but is one of the gratest animation sofwares on the market

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Every generation has its Specials times

DailyDoseOfCancer yeah.

I think the animation is alright theres some parts that feel rough and choppy in the movie but it still looks good visually lol

Nos anos 90 com o marionette (software que usam) , fizeram o toy story imagina como deve ser bem mais simples nos dias de hoje.

I'm sorry dude but I will before you do, lol jk but seriously it would be awesome to do that

Anity Ex hahahaha. Let's apply!

I will someday lol not yet but someday hahaha

Good, they are looking for janitor

*sad emoji here*

"It's just a MISTAKE." xD

Actually, those were pretty BIG monitors ;)

I had two monitors so I was obviously a big deal!

Gud for u

I'm referring to the tiny size and lack of room for everything.

Ohana Films I has a even smaller one. 2 of them and they would not turn on. They was from a DT workstation in a secondary school. Still got the PC tho. Idk what's on it. Maybe Windows 3.1.

ah ok my bad

I bet thos rendered faster than blender cycles animation

Lol, someone coding SM64 in a livestream switched from Maya to Blender because Maya was crashed alot. Blender 2.8 a fast real-time renderer and Maya-users still sometimes use Blender products (like filmic-blender) with maya.

3DS Max 2010 is my personal choice

Lucteria SE they all have pretty much the same function...the important step for animation is a good character mesh, weighting, a very easy and good Rig (IK/FK switchable) and good animations

blender 2.8 isnt even out yet -_-

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Sometimes when you know you're in the forefront of something that has never been done, a full length animated movie, you feel that you're doing something really special. Nowadays there's hundreds of self-made animators trying to make it by doing as you described but wont get the claim these pioneers did.

1995 indeed.

Ponlets Raytracing is always an option in Maya.

it was not an option in 1995 and they did not have ray tracing in incredibles 1 either .. they used some kind of open GL shader thing for their first few movies ... ratatouille was the first that i can remember from pixar to have real raytracing

Ponlets exactly. They never used ray tracing. Only OpenGL based shaders

because you cant fake ray tracing .... ray tracing looks better and more photo realistic and in todays animations is the only proper way to render an animation .... back in 1995 ray tracing was around but only for the big massive companies ... pixar was a small studio at the time so they had to write their own software

lol in 1995 when they made toy story it was still mostly a small studio ... you are thinking of the early 2000s when they made some of their other movies they used open GL all the way to incredibles but shortly after that you can see a change in their shaders when they made cars ... its subtle to some but obvious for those who know how and where to look faking is not as good as making when it comes to photo realism ... materials can look like plastic (which is why they focused on toys for most of toy story) ... look at the dog Scud in sids house .. if you watch the movie in high resolution you can see its a normal map texture instead of fur .. in DVD and VHS it looks decent enough to be plausible for fur but anything higher than standard definition shows its actually just a normal map ... thats mainly why they did not focus on humans as much as the toys because the "flesh" material did not have subsurface scattering or any subtle nuance to it in toy story 1 it was a good movie but it has aged a bit

Ben Sliwa it was top end on the world in 90s

I find stuff like that so fascinating. I'll check that out.

I have not seen that, but I'll try and find it. So into seeing how its done.

This is not your casual everyday 90s PC master race gaming rig with DOOM and quake. This was a CGI workstation by Silicon Graphics which I believe was not sold to the consumer but to specialists like Pixar and Dream Works.

Lol really buddy? I respect that you came to troll, but the fact of the matter is when you do something professionally and you spend a lot of time doing it a real professional invests in some of the best tools and organizes their workspace to be comfortable and efficient.

I would not mind it like this. Love offices that look this cosy and messy

they literally look creepy and weird, like something out of the deep web

Sin Talento Producciones Hahaha! oh my god, "deepweb", what is it about this utilitarian look that makes it scary? I think kids these days have been wimped out by soft, no-contrast, full-white UIs made to look pretty and mind-numbingly minimal instead of having contrast and shading to make things easy to read and have functions discernibly separated for ease of use. UIs now look a lot worse than they used to be. They function better, but look bad. And not all UIs, but the common ones used daily on the web? Absolutely, and nothing reeks worse of it than Google's garbage design. I don't blame "the kids" or any generation for adapting to design trends whose cosmetic choices only work against the user's productivity, I blame the beanie-hat idiot who designed it, and the managers who accepted it. I'm sorry your personal computers look like shit now.

@@stproducciones9140 nope

It brings much more natural movement

10 fps wow

Because we are in future where we think 10fps is pain in ass But back then it was pretty fast I guess and 10fps was all they got