Introducing Toy Story, the First Computer Generated Full-Feature Film!

The checkered shirt Woody wears had been impossible to create in traditional animation and Buzz Lightyear looked like a real toy!

Computer animation technology not long before this movie was released looked clunky and the figures never moved quite right, from their mouths during speaking to the way the bodies gestured. And the story lines were always an afterthought. Wouldn't you agree?

Despite the Risks, Disney Gambled on Pixar and Won

Pixar pitched several movie studios to back their creation, but computer animation was so new at that time that nobody wanted to make such a high-stakes gamble. But Disney took a shot at Pixar and it's new film and it paid off well.

The Toy Story movie plot includes humor and adventure, and when you know the characters and their relationships with one another, it makes watching the movie far more enjoyable.The characters have such humanity never before possible to express through computer animation until Pixar did it.

• Toy Story Movie Plot

Toy Story has characters divided into four sections:

• Main Toy Characters
• Background (Minor) Toy Characters
• Sid Phillips' Mutant Toys
• Human Characters

The movie was a huge success and animation took on a whole new meaning from then on. It was the #1 movie in 1995 and had such historical importance that the National Film Preservation Board chose the movie for preservation by the Library of Congress 10 years later.

Pixar is famous for showing short films before the feature presentation. With the VHS release and the later release of the Toy Story DVD, the Pixar short chosen was Tin Toy. Appropriate, because Buzz Lightyear was originally going to be cast as a character more like the tin toy in the short film.