Did you know that before “Toy Story”, Disney and Pixar studios had already collaborated on the production of another animation? Find out which one!
Last week, Pixar released its latest animation in partnership with Disney, “Inside Out 2”, a production that takes us back into the head of Riley, who has just turned 13 and has to deal with the onset of puberty and the arrival of new emotions.
This, however, is not the first time that the two studios have collaborated. In fact, the two great powers of the film industry have been working together for years, being responsible for the launch of major titles, such as “Brave”, “A Bug’s Life”, “Wall-E”, “Cars”, “Monsters Inc”, “The Incredibles”, “Ratatouille” and more.
In 1995, “Toy Story” became the world’s first computer-animated feature film, Pixar’s first feature film, and in collaboration with Disney. But did you know that the duo had already worked together on another production?
Another collaboration
As reported by the ScreenRant portal, the first film responsible for marking this partnership was “The Bernards and White Bears”, from 1990, a sequel to the animation “The Bernards and White Bears”, released in 1977. This is because the film was the first made by the House of Mickey to use CAPS, a Computer Animation Production System that would revolutionize the creation of traditional animated films.
This Pixar technology caught Disney’s attention in 1986, after the release of the short “Luxo Jr.”, which features the famous lamp that became an icon of the company. Therefore, it was used in the 1990 production to color all the arts made manually by the animators at the studio created by Walt Disneyin addition to also helping with the positioning of cameras, taking four years for the entire project to be completed.
But anyone who thinks that Disney only used CAPS in “The Bernard and the White Bear” is mistaken. In fact, the system was also used in “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) and “Aladdin” (1992), as ScreenRant explains. Also in 1991, Pixar signed an agreement with Disney to develop a full-length animated film using computer graphics: “Toy Story”.
Being the first to be produced entirely on computer, the story of Woody, Buzz and company was an immediate success, becoming the highest-grossing film of the year, in addition to grossing US$ 192 million domestically and US$ 362 million internationally, and being nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song, Best Original Score and Best Original Screenplay.
With undeniable success, in 1997, Walt Disney Studios and Pixar Animation Studios announced a new agreement to jointly produce five new films over the course of 10 years. In 2006, Disney purchased Pixar Animation Studios, officially sealing the merger between the two industry powerhouses.
Source: Recreio
