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Toy Story

The film Toy Story, a coproduction of Walt Disney Pictures and Pixar, was the first completely computer-animated feature film in the history of motion pictures. It took more than 800,000 machine-hours to render the final frames. Find out more about Toy Story at www.pixar.com/feature/toystory/toystory.html. Be sure to follow the link "Sun Microsystems on the nitty gritty" for a detailed description of the computing power behind the film.

Additional Links

Pixar Animation Studios At Pixar's Web site, you can learn about other commercially successful animated films, including A Bug's Life, released in 1998, and Toy Story 2, released in 1999. Toy Story 2 won a Golden Globe award in January 2000.

Computer Graphics and Animation If Toy Story has sparked your interest in computer animation, this Web site can help you explore the field. You can find a time line that shows the evolution of animation through the 1960s (the computer era is still to come), read descriptions of traditional animation techniques, and read about computer graphics and animation techniques. There are brief descriptions of computer animation tools, an index of companies and associations, sample files to download, and links to other Web resources.