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Pencils Vs Pixels

When we startedon Toy Story, there were like four peoplein the world who knew how to do...

When we started
on Toy Story, there were like four people
in the world who knew how to do computer animation

Full Transcript

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When we started on Toy Story, there
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were like four people in the world who knew
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how to do computer animation.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
45
Timestamp in Movie
00:54:58
Uploaded
Apr 16, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography
Production
Minutehand Pictures,Hideout Pictures,Pencilish Animation Studios

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Movie Summary

It is a celebration of the unique magic of 2D hand-drawn animation and an exploration of how the Disney of the late 1980s and early 1990s led to an animation boom that was quickly upended by the computer animation revolution that ...
And so when we hired animators, we - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:10
And so when we hired animators, we
And so then we had a long intensive training - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
And so then we had a long intensive training
And it was not quite as straightforward as it is now. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:06
And it was not quite as straightforward as it is now.
To run the software, you had to know some command - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
To run the software, you had to know some command
And so it was a little complicated - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:06
And so it was a little complicated
And I remember people getting really frustrated - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:11
And I remember people getting really frustrated
In one sense, it was sudden but in another sense because I - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:08
In one sense, it was sudden but in another sense because I
That was when all of us had to make a decision that we - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
That was when all of us had to make a decision that we
I was in this thought process of the nine old men - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:06
I was in this thought process of the nine old men
And I thought I'd be there most of my career, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:12
And I thought I'd be there most of my career,
Some people were able to make that jump from 2D to 3D, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
Some people were able to make that jump from 2D to 3D,
And I know one guy that became a forklift operator. - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:06
And I know one guy that became a forklift operator.
I know somebody else that went and took jobs in the parks - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
I know somebody else that went and took jobs in the parks
It's sad to see that because they're really talented - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:15
It's sad to see that because they're really talent...
So when your teacher comes in and he looks depressed, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:14
So when your teacher comes in and he looks depressed,
And as a student you go, "I love the medium" - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:16
And as a student you go, "I love the medium"
"What chance do I have?" - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
"What chance do I have?"
For a lot of us, I think what the question became was, - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:07
For a lot of us, I think what the question became was,
Did I get into animation because I love to draw - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:09
Did I get into animation because I love to draw
And it almost became that basic because if you got into it just - Pencils Vs Pixels 00:13
And it almost became that basic because if you got into it j...