The best Pixar films not only make you smile and laugh, but also think. Not that the travails of this little tin toy are necessarily going to inspire some sort of major intellectual discussion ...

“Tin Toy.” The character that would become toy cowboy Woody started as a ventriloquist’s dummy. The project fizzled. But when Pixar signed a distribution deal with Disney, the young company ...

In 1988, to show off what Pixar's machines could do, Lasseter directed a short all-CGI cartoon called "Tin Toy." The film won an Oscar, starting Lasseter back on the path toward making a full ...

It all goes back to a short called \"Tin Toy\" In 1988, Pixar created a short film using computer animation called \"Tin Toy,\" which told the story of a little toy soldier who was horrified by ...

Aldrin even gave toy Buzz space travel advice in 2008. Pixar's "Tin Toy" short helped lead to the creation of "Toy Story." In 1998,"'Tin Toy' developed the idea of toys being alive, which ...

But Catmull’s goal was always to make a computer-animated feature, Docter said, and after after Pixar won an Oscar for its short film Tin Toy, it decided to make a half-hour holiday special as ...

Following the success of the Oscar-winning short film, 1988's Tin Toy, Pixar decided to expand its stories from a little toy's perspective in a major way, and that is obviously a lot more complex ...

15.) “Tin Toy” (1988) — This is the short that saved Pixar from financial ruin, became the first CGI film to win an Oscar, and led to Disney making a deal with Pixar to create “Toy Story.” ...

Tin Toy is very much the precursor to Toy Story ... showing the best that Pixar can be.

the star of John Lasseter’s Oscar-winning 1988 short “Tin Toy” — the film that helped put Pixar on its path toward 1995’s pioneering feature film “Toy Story.” Another Easter egg ...

Last year, we learned that "Toy Story 5" would be coming to theaters in 2026, but that was pretty much all we knew about Pixar's sequel to its longest-running and arguably most beloved film franchise.