Toy Story

Term Paper Title	Toy Story
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Toy Story

     Toy Story was released by Disney and Pixar in November of 1995.  It was a huge accomplishment, and was one long awaited by children and adults alike.  Disney and Pixar Animation had successfully made the first full-length film entirely animated on computers.  The writers of Toy Story did not focus solely on the technical aspect, though.  They also remembered to include the plot.  Often, a film is acclaimed for just one aspect, but Toy Story deserves praise for many: the music, the famous voices, and even the comedy.
     Technically, Toy Story is practically flawless.  The director John Lasseter, along with computer geniuses from Pixar, combined quick moving animation with the same three-dimensional effects used in live-action films.  Everything for the film: characters, sets, and even backgrounds, were built inside the computer.  Once this was done, it was easy for the filmmakers to make the toys come to life, and to show the movie from the toys' point-of-view. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times states that, "The movie doesn't simply animate characters in front of painted
backdrops; it fully animates the characters and the space they occupy, and allows its point of view to move freely around them"(1). Watching Toy Story, it's hard to remember that Andy and his friends aren't real.  It was amazing to watch a 3D animated child slide down a banister or play with a bouncy ball.
Toy Story's plot revolves around the little boy named Andy
and his toys that magically come to life when he's not around.  The leader of the toys, Woody, is an old cowboy doll with a pull-string in his back.  He keeps all the other toys in line and calm every time Andy's birthday or Christmas happens to roll around.  That is, until Andy receives for his birthday a brand new Buzz Lightyear action figure, complete with a laser beam and fold out wings.  Once Buzz comes into the picture, and starts to lay out his plans to save the universe, Woody's lectures
on "plastic corrosion awareness" no longer seem so important.  Jealousy works its way into the scene, and Woody ends up accidentally knocking Buzz out Andy's window.  Unfortunately, Andy is moving, and Woody only has a limited amount of time to fin...

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