![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() By the time the Toy Story credits started rolling that first day, the movies would never be the same. The storytelling and technology of Pixar still rests upon the foundation Toy Story built. “The entire company,” he says, “was bet upon us figuring this out.” ![]() Reflecting on the experience 20 years later, Catmull notes that the young production studio was up against the wall: one project’s failure would likely mean the end of the three-movie contract, and the demise of Pixar studios. “But there was something fresh about nobody knowing what the hell we were doing.”Ĭatmull was a member of the Pixar “brain trust,” which also included current chief creative officer of Pixar and Disney Animation John Lasseter, the animator selected to direct Toy Story, and screenwriters Andrew Stanton and Pete Docter. So we were all complete novices,” Ed Catmull, who was then a software engineer and is now Pixar and Disney Animation President, tells TIME. We didn’t have any production expertise except for short films and commercials. “At that point, none of us knew what we were doing. ![]()
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