How Pixar’s ‘Toy Story 4’ Was Animated | Movies Insider

The fourth installment in the beloved “Toy Story” franchise achieves a level of detail and realism unseen in any Disney/Pixar project yet. See how it all came to life at the legendary Pixar studios, step by step: beginning with the story and artwork stage, onto 3D computer modeling, shading and surfacing, layout, voice acting, character animation, simulation, lighting, effects, scoring, sound mixing, and the final render. The first “Toy Story” film was a pioneer in computer-generated animation back in 1995, as the first full-length feature to be completely CG-animated. In the last 25 years, the evolution of Pixar technology has allowed for an unprecedented standard of natural-world CGI in “Toy Story 4,” topping the already impressive undertakings in “Toy Story 2” (1999) and “Toy Story 3” (2010). So how exactly did Pixar raise the bar for animation once more for this year’s sequel? INSIDER takes you behind the filmmaking process for “Toy Story 4,” illustrating each stage in the production pipeline. We s