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Tin Toy

January 01, 1970

This article is about the 1988 Pixar film. For the type of toy, see tin toy.

Tin Toy is a 1988 American animated short film produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter. The short film, which runs for five minutes, stars Tinny, a tin one-man band toy, trying to escape from Billy, a human baby. The third short film produced by the company's small animation division, it was a risky investment: due to the low revenue produced by Pixar's main product, the Pixar Image Computer, the company was under financial constraints.

Tin Toy
Poster for Tin Toy
Directed byJohn Lasseter
Story byJohn Lasseter
Produced byWilliam Reeves
Production
company
Release dates
Running time
5 minutes
CountryUnited States
Budget$300,000[1]

Lasseter pitched the concept for Tin Toy by storyboard to Pixar owner Steve Jobs, who agreed to finance the short despite the company's struggles, which he kept alive with annual investment. The film was officially a test of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan software and proved new challenges to the animation team, namely the difficult task of realistically animating Billy. Tin Toy later gained attention from Disney, who sealed an agreement to create Toy Story starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, which was primarily inspired by elements from Tin Toy.

The short film debuted in a completed edit at the SIGGRAPH convention in August 1988 to a standing ovation from scientists and engineers. The film went on to claim Pixar's first Academy Award with the 1988 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, becoming the first animated film made using computer-generated imagery to win an Academy Award. With the award, Tin Toy went far to establish computer animation as a legitimate artistic medium outside SIGGRAPH and the animation-festival film circuit. In 2003, Tin Toy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[2]

Plot edit

In a living room, a toy one-man band player named Tinny looks around, and sees a baby named Billy arrive. At first, Tinny is delighted at the prospect of being played with by Billy until he sees how destructive the infant can be. When Tinny tries to walk out of Billy's reach, the musical instruments on the former's back begin to play, attracting Billy's attention. Tinny begins to run, but is pursued by Billy. During a pursuit with the excited Billy pursuing him, Tinny soon finds cover under a couch, there finding a collection of toys in hiding, similarly terrified of Billy, because they have gone through the same experience. Unaware of this, Billy accidentally trips, but falls over on the hardwood surface floor face first while searching for Tinny, and begins to cry. Feeling sorry for the baby, Tinny sees this, and leaves his couch sanctuary, and begins to play near Billy to calm him down. Upon seeing this, Billy stops crying and picks up Tinny to play with, the latter fearing the worst. However, Billy soon lets go of the toy, more interested in his packaging, but ignores Tinny, and then plays with his box because Tinny came in with it. This annoys Tinny, who again plays music, tries following around Billy in hopes of being noticed, and goes to pursue him, but is still angry and ignored, and ends up trying to stop him no matter where Billy goes with Tinny pursuing him. Eventually, Billy, whose face is now covered in a shopping bag, leaves the room, followed by Tinny. The newly optimistic toys from underneath the couch are safe to come out.

Background edit

Pixar, purchased in 1986 by entrepreneur and former Apple Computer head Steve Jobs, received many accolades for films produced by its small animation division, headed by former Disney animator John Lasseter. Lasseter's primary role, as defended to Jobs by company founders Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith, was to produce short films to promote the company's own Pixar Image Computers.[3] The department was never meant to generate any revenue as far as Jobs was concerned, but after the release of two shorts, Luxo Jr. (1986) and Red's Dream (1987), some of the engineers working on the company's products wondered whether it made sense to keep the animation group going at all.[4] Pixar was losing money every year and Jobs was supporting the cash-strapped company SO through a line of credit with his personal guarantee.[5]

The engineers felt they were working hard to make money for Pixar while Lasseter's group was only spending it. Their passion was for building computers and software, not entertainment. Eventually, they discerned, to their chagrin, the reason why the company was supporting the division: the real priority of Catmull and Smith was to make films.[4] The engineers were not alone in wondering about the value of Lasseter's short films. On repeated occasions in the late 1980s, Catmull barely dissuaded Jobs from shutting down the animation division due to financial constraints. At this same time, Jobs was clashing with Alvy Ray Smith, which would eventually lead to his resignation from Pixar after a heated argument during a meeting. Things were by no means well at the company and Lasseter and his team of animators knew this, and were afraid to ask for money to finance another short, which they storyboarded as Tin Toy.[6]

Production edit

In the spring of 1988, cash was running so short that Jobs convened a meeting to decree deep spending cuts across the board. When it was over, Lasseter and his animation group were almost too afraid to ask Jobs about authorizing some extra money for another short. Finally, they broached the topic and Jobs sat silent, looking skeptical. Tin Toy would require close to $300,000 more out of his pocket. After a few minutes, he asked if there were any storyboards.[6] Catmull took him down to the animation offices, and Lasseter started his show. With the storyboards pinned on his wall, Lasseter did the voices and acted out the shots—just as story men had done on the Disney lot for decades—and thereby showed his passion for the project.[5][6] The stakes here were much higher than before, however. Ralph Guggenheim, manager of the animation unit, recalled, "We knew that he wasn't just pitching for the film, he was pitching for the survival of the group."[2][5] Jobs warmed up to the project and agreed to provide the money.[6] "I believed in what John was doing," Jobs later said. "It was art. He cared, and I cared. I always said yes." His only comment at the end of Lasseter's presentation was, "All I ask of you, John, is to make it great."[7]

 
John Lasseter at the Venice Film Festival in 2009.

That fall, after completion of Red's Dream, most members of the company gathered at Stillwater Cove, near Fort Ross, to design new software that was designed completely for the work of an animator.[8] From the meeting came Menv software ("modeling Environment"), the first program specifically designed to facilitate the workflow of an animator, separating the various phases of the animation (modeling, animation and lighting), later renamed Puppets.[8][9] To show the application of the new program, it was approved the production of a short. Inspired by the birth of his daughter Julia, William Reeves proposed the idea to create a human baby.[8] Lasseter had an inspiration for the new opera based on the observation of his nephew, intent to put any toy in the mouth on the way. Lasseter said, "In terms of toys the child must have seemed a terrible monster!"[10]

The story was about Lasseter's love, classic toys, and was inspired by a visit made in 1987 at the Tin Toy Museum in Yokohama, Japan.[11][12] It was told from the perspective of a toy one-man band named Tinny, who meets a baby that charms and terrorizes him. Escaping under the couch, Tinny finds other frightened toys, but when the baby hits his head and cries, Tinny goes back out to cheer him up.[6] Tin Toy was inspired much like Luxo Jr., namely, Lasseter's observations of a friend's baby. This time, he opted for a more ambitious task, attempting to mimic a human baby in its appearance, the movement of its arms, and its fickle moods.[5]

The short film was officially a test of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan software.[13] This was the only Pixar short rendered on the RM-1, a RenderMan specific computer that was never sold to the public.[14][15] As with Luxo Jr. and Red's Dream, it was also a chance for Lasseter to one-up his earlier efforts, taking his animation and storytelling to another level.[16] The baby proved difficult to model and animate; "it just became an incredible burden," remembered Flip Phillips, a new member of the team at the time. In early attempts at a model of the baby's head, he appeared to have the face of a middle-aged man.[16] The final version of the baby (known to the team as Billy) had a much-improved face with 40 separate facial muscles,[17] but his skin had the look of plastic. When he moved, moreover, his body lacked the natural give of baby fat and his diaper had the solidity of cement—compromises made necessary by lack of time and the still-developing technology.[16]

The picture on the table is a photograph of director John Lasseter.[18]

Release edit

Lasseter and his technical directors slept under their desks at times to get Tin Toy finished before SIGGRAPH in Atlanta in August 1988, but to no avail. What the SIGGRAPH audience saw was the first three-fifths or so of the film, ending a cliffhanger moment with Tinny running into his box and watching in horror through the box's cellophane as Billy advances towards him.[16] "Even though it wasn't complete, people were wowed by it," producer Ralph Guggenheim remembered.[16] The audience of scientists and engineers to which it was shown at SIGGRAPH greeted it with a standing ovation.[2] These praises were joined over the years, positive assessments of public and critics, who praised the innovation and technology in it. Luke Bonanno called it "One of the best Pixar short films,"[19] while other critics wrote that the film was "A fascinating glimpse of a fledgling art form."[20] and many praised the ability to move in just a few minutes and have been able to "encompass the full range of emotions you feel when a toy is used by a child."[21] Some criticisms were leveled at the character of Billy, who was called "the most frightening and disturbing piece of animation in the history of this art form."[20] Dario Floreano stated that the uncanny valley concept was taken seriously by the film industry because of negative audience reactions to Billy.[22] It is unknown when this short was first released in its entirety.

Tin Toy went on to take the Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1989 at the 61st Academy Awards, it was the third CGI short film to get nominated for the Academy Award (Behind Hunger and Luxo Jr.) and was the first CGI animated short film to receive an Academy Award. With the award, Tin Toy went far to establish computer animation as a legitimate artistic medium outside SIGGRAPH and the animation-festival film circuit.[23] A member of the Academy's board of governors, animator William Littlejohn, saw in Tin Toy a window into the potential of the young medium. "There is a realism that's rather astonishing," he told The New York Times. "It emulates photography, but with artistic staging."[23] Robert Winquist, head of the character animation program at CalArts, went further, predicting that computer animation was "going to take over in a short time." He publicly advised animators, "Put down your pencil and your paintbrush and do it another way."[23]

The short film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 2003.[2] Tin Toy garnered some home media releases via inclusion on Tiny Toy Stories in 1996, the VHS and DVD releases of Toy Story in 2000, and the Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1 (2007).[24] Tin Toy is also available for streaming on Disney+.

Academy Award edit

1988 – Best Animated Short Film

Other awards edit

1989 – Seattle International Film Festival – Best Short Film
1989 – World Animation Celebration – Best Computer-Assisted Animation
2003 – National Film Registry

Merchandising edit

Apart from the home video editions of the short film, Tin Toy was not the subject of any type of merchandise, like all of the other short films that have been produced by the company. The only exception is the reproduction of vinyl Tinny, produced by MINDStyle in 2010.[25] Pixar, in fact, sold the license to the manufacturer of Tin Toy MINDStyle objects, which created a maquette of the vinyl character Tinny inside of the line Art Toy Collectible limited Edition of 500 pieces, the price of ninety dollars. The box, which is a faithful reproduction of the packaging of the toy view in short, in addition to containing the model of Tinny, presents a certificate of authenticity printed on a card showing the storyboard in pencil of a scene from the short.[26]

Cancelled holiday special edit

The success of Tin Toy gained attention from Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg, who approached Pixar to produce a computer-animated film. In the early 1990s, Pixar began to make arrangements with Disney to produce the first computer-animated film. The project went through, but considering the abrupt transition from shorts to feature a few minutes to an hour and a half, Pixar set out to create a special half-hour to see if they could manage a production that was similar to that of an actual film. Driven by the victory at the Oscars that year, a sequel to Tin Toy called "A Tin Toy Christmas," was originally planned as a half-hour-long television special to be used to convince film studios that Pixar was capable of producing a feature film.[27] This idea was brought to the table at the initial talks with Disney for Toy Story. The basic idea was that Tinny was part of a set of toy players who are not successful and remain unsold for years. Separated from other components, Tinny ends up by mistake in a toy shop of our age where he meets several characters, including a soft pink bear named Lotso.[27][28]

The project was abandoned because the television network that would have produced the film could not afford the fees required (according to director Pete Docter, the special would have required a sum of eighteen times higher than the allowed budget).[27] Disney was uninterested in the concept and urged Pixar to produce a feature immediately, which became a critical and commercial success.[29] The character of Lotso, however, was adapted for Toy Story 3, as the main villain.[27]

Tinny himself makes a cameo in Toy Story 4, appearing when Woody and Bo Peep enter a pinball machine to meet Duke Caboom.

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ . Archived from the original on April 26, 2012.
  2. ^ a b c d Hill, Jim (July 31, 2008). "I can go to Disney and be a director, or I can stay here and make history". JimHillMedia.com. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  3. ^ Price, p. 89
  4. ^ a b Price, p. 103
  5. ^ a b c d Price, p. 104
  6. ^ a b c d e Isaacson, Walter (2011). Steve Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 247. ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9.
  7. ^ Isaacson, Walter (2011). Steve Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 248. ISBN 978-1-4516-4853-9.
  8. ^ a b c Amidi, p. 24
  9. ^ "The Pixar Shorts: A Short History". YouTube. 0:06:32 Walt Disney Pictures
  10. ^ Price, p. 305
  11. ^ "Audio commentary to the short Tin Toy". John Lasseter
  12. ^ Amidi. p. 23.
  13. ^ InfoWorld - 27 Feb 1989. February 27, 1989. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  14. ^ "Renderman - CGWiki". Wiki.cgsociety.org. October 24, 2006. Archived from the original on July 21, 2012. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  15. ^ Apodaca, Anthony A.; Gritz, Larry; Barzel, Ronen (2000). Advanced RenderMan: creating CGI for motion pictures. Elsevier Science. ISBN 9781558606180. Retrieved October 12, 2010.
  16. ^ a b c d e Price, p. 105
  17. ^ Pixar Opens Horizons for Pluto, Dumbo et al. - NYTimes.com
  18. ^ Price, David A. (2008). The Pixar Touch. P. 105. New York, Alfred A. Knopf
  19. ^ Bonanno, Luke (November 2007). "Pixar Short Films Collection, Volume 1". dvdizzy.com. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  20. ^ a b Adam Arseneau, Judge (December 3, 2007). . DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on January 30, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  21. ^ Michael Stailey (February 2, 2008). . DVD Verdict. Archived from the original on January 27, 2012. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  22. ^ Capps, Chris (September 29, 2009). . Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  23. ^ a b c Price, p. 106
  24. ^ "PIXAR SHORT FILMS COLLECTION, VOLUME 1". Movie Metropolis. November 12, 2007. Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. Retrieved June 24, 2013.
  25. ^ "The Art Of Pixar". MINDstyle. August 2, 2010.
  26. ^ "Pixar's Tin Toy MINDStyle". Captain Toy. August 11, 2010.
  27. ^ a b c d Hill, Jim (December 14, 2007). "The Pixar TV special you never got to see, "A Tin Toy Christmas"". JimHillMedia.com. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  28. ^ "It's Toy Hell, Says Toy Story 3 Director". Rotten Tomatoes. June 18, 2010. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  29. ^ To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios

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This article is about the 1988 Pixar film For the type of toy see tin toy Tin Toy is a 1988 American animated short film produced by Pixar and directed by John Lasseter The short film which runs for five minutes stars Tinny a tin one man band toy trying to escape from Billy a human baby The third short film produced by the company s small animation division it was a risky investment due to the low revenue produced by Pixar s main product the Pixar Image Computer the company was under financial constraints Tin ToyPoster for Tin ToyDirected byJohn LasseterStory byJohn LasseterProduced byWilliam ReevesProductioncompanyPixar Animation StudiosRelease datesAugust 2 1988 1988 08 02 SIGGRAPH October 17 2000 2000 10 17 with Toy Story VHS and DVD releases Running time5 minutesCountryUnited StatesBudget 300 000 1 Lasseter pitched the concept for Tin Toy by storyboard to Pixar owner Steve Jobs who agreed to finance the short despite the company s struggles which he kept alive with annual investment The film was officially a test of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan software and proved new challenges to the animation team namely the difficult task of realistically animating Billy Tin Toy later gained attention from Disney who sealed an agreement to create Toy Story starring Tom Hanks and Tim Allen which was primarily inspired by elements from Tin Toy The short film debuted in a completed edit at the SIGGRAPH convention in August 1988 to a standing ovation from scientists and engineers The film went on to claim Pixar s first Academy Award with the 1988 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film becoming the first animated film made using computer generated imagery to win an Academy Award With the award Tin Toy went far to establish computer animation as a legitimate artistic medium outside SIGGRAPH and the animation festival film circuit In 2003 Tin Toy was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally historically or aesthetically significant 2 Contents 1 Plot 2 Background 3 Production 4 Release 4 1 Academy Award 4 2 Other awards 5 Merchandising 6 Cancelled holiday special 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References 10 External linksPlot editIn a living room a toy one man band player named Tinny looks around and sees a baby named Billy arrive At first Tinny is delighted at the prospect of being played with by Billy until he sees how destructive the infant can be When Tinny tries to walk out of Billy s reach the musical instruments on the former s back begin to play attracting Billy s attention Tinny begins to run but is pursued by Billy During a pursuit with the excited Billy pursuing him Tinny soon finds cover under a couch there finding a collection of toys in hiding similarly terrified of Billy because they have gone through the same experience Unaware of this Billy accidentally trips but falls over on the hardwood surface floor face first while searching for Tinny and begins to cry Feeling sorry for the baby Tinny sees this and leaves his couch sanctuary and begins to play near Billy to calm him down Upon seeing this Billy stops crying and picks up Tinny to play with the latter fearing the worst However Billy soon lets go of the toy more interested in his packaging but ignores Tinny and then plays with his box because Tinny came in with it This annoys Tinny who again plays music tries following around Billy in hopes of being noticed and goes to pursue him but is still angry and ignored and ends up trying to stop him no matter where Billy goes with Tinny pursuing him Eventually Billy whose face is now covered in a shopping bag leaves the room followed by Tinny The newly optimistic toys from underneath the couch are safe to come out Background editPixar purchased in 1986 by entrepreneur and former Apple Computer head Steve Jobs received many accolades for films produced by its small animation division headed by former Disney animator John Lasseter Lasseter s primary role as defended to Jobs by company founders Edwin Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith was to produce short films to promote the company s own Pixar Image Computers 3 The department was never meant to generate any revenue as far as Jobs was concerned but after the release of two shorts Luxo Jr 1986 and Red s Dream 1987 some of the engineers working on the company s products wondered whether it made sense to keep the animation group going at all 4 Pixar was losing money every year and Jobs was supporting the cash strapped company SO through a line of credit with his personal guarantee 5 The engineers felt they were working hard to make money for Pixar while Lasseter s group was only spending it Their passion was for building computers and software not entertainment Eventually they discerned to their chagrin the reason why the company was supporting the division the real priority of Catmull and Smith was to make films 4 The engineers were not alone in wondering about the value of Lasseter s short films On repeated occasions in the late 1980s Catmull barely dissuaded Jobs from shutting down the animation division due to financial constraints At this same time Jobs was clashing with Alvy Ray Smith which would eventually lead to his resignation from Pixar after a heated argument during a meeting Things were by no means well at the company and Lasseter and his team of animators knew this and were afraid to ask for money to finance another short which they storyboarded as Tin Toy 6 Production editIn the spring of 1988 cash was running so short that Jobs convened a meeting to decree deep spending cuts across the board When it was over Lasseter and his animation group were almost too afraid to ask Jobs about authorizing some extra money for another short Finally they broached the topic and Jobs sat silent looking skeptical Tin Toy would require close to 300 000 more out of his pocket After a few minutes he asked if there were any storyboards 6 Catmull took him down to the animation offices and Lasseter started his show With the storyboards pinned on his wall Lasseter did the voices and acted out the shots just as story men had done on the Disney lot for decades and thereby showed his passion for the project 5 6 The stakes here were much higher than before however Ralph Guggenheim manager of the animation unit recalled We knew that he wasn t just pitching for the film he was pitching for the survival of the group 2 5 Jobs warmed up to the project and agreed to provide the money 6 I believed in what John was doing Jobs later said It was art He cared and I cared I always said yes His only comment at the end of Lasseter s presentation was All I ask of you John is to make it great 7 nbsp John Lasseter at the Venice Film Festival in 2009 That fall after completion of Red s Dream most members of the company gathered at Stillwater Cove near Fort Ross to design new software that was designed completely for the work of an animator 8 From the meeting came Menv software modeling Environment the first program specifically designed to facilitate the workflow of an animator separating the various phases of the animation modeling animation and lighting later renamed Puppets 8 9 To show the application of the new program it was approved the production of a short Inspired by the birth of his daughter Julia William Reeves proposed the idea to create a human baby 8 Lasseter had an inspiration for the new opera based on the observation of his nephew intent to put any toy in the mouth on the way Lasseter said In terms of toys the child must have seemed a terrible monster 10 The story was about Lasseter s love classic toys and was inspired by a visit made in 1987 at the Tin Toy Museum in Yokohama Japan 11 12 It was told from the perspective of a toy one man band named Tinny who meets a baby that charms and terrorizes him Escaping under the couch Tinny finds other frightened toys but when the baby hits his head and cries Tinny goes back out to cheer him up 6 Tin Toy was inspired much like Luxo Jr namely Lasseter s observations of a friend s baby This time he opted for a more ambitious task attempting to mimic a human baby in its appearance the movement of its arms and its fickle moods 5 The short film was officially a test of the PhotoRealistic RenderMan software 13 This was the only Pixar short rendered on the RM 1 a RenderMan specific computer that was never sold to the public 14 15 As with Luxo Jr and Red s Dream it was also a chance for Lasseter to one up his earlier efforts taking his animation and storytelling to another level 16 The baby proved difficult to model and animate it just became an incredible burden remembered Flip Phillips a new member of the team at the time In early attempts at a model of the baby s head he appeared to have the face of a middle aged man 16 The final version of the baby known to the team as Billy had a much improved face with 40 separate facial muscles 17 but his skin had the look of plastic When he moved moreover his body lacked the natural give of baby fat and his diaper had the solidity of cement compromises made necessary by lack of time and the still developing technology 16 The picture on the table is a photograph of director John Lasseter 18 Release editLasseter and his technical directors slept under their desks at times to get Tin Toy finished before SIGGRAPH in Atlanta in August 1988 but to no avail What the SIGGRAPH audience saw was the first three fifths or so of the film ending a cliffhanger moment with Tinny running into his box and watching in horror through the box s cellophane as Billy advances towards him 16 Even though it wasn t complete people were wowed by it producer Ralph Guggenheim remembered 16 The audience of scientists and engineers to which it was shown at SIGGRAPH greeted it with a standing ovation 2 These praises were joined over the years positive assessments of public and critics who praised the innovation and technology in it Luke Bonanno called it One of the best Pixar short films 19 while other critics wrote that the film was A fascinating glimpse of a fledgling art form 20 and many praised the ability to move in just a few minutes and have been able to encompass the full range of emotions you feel when a toy is used by a child 21 Some criticisms were leveled at the character of Billy who was called the most frightening and disturbing piece of animation in the history of this art form 20 Dario Floreano stated that the uncanny valley concept was taken seriously by the film industry because of negative audience reactions to Billy 22 It is unknown when this short was first released in its entirety Tin Toy went on to take the Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1989 at the 61st Academy Awards it was the third CGI short film to get nominated for the Academy Award Behind Hunger and Luxo Jr and was the first CGI animated short film to receive an Academy Award With the award Tin Toy went far to establish computer animation as a legitimate artistic medium outside SIGGRAPH and the animation festival film circuit 23 A member of the Academy s board of governors animator William Littlejohn saw in Tin Toy a window into the potential of the young medium There is a realism that s rather astonishing he told The New York Times It emulates photography but with artistic staging 23 Robert Winquist head of the character animation program at CalArts went further predicting that computer animation was going to take over in a short time He publicly advised animators Put down your pencil and your paintbrush and do it another way 23 The short film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally historically or aesthetically significant in 2003 2 Tin Toy garnered some home media releases via inclusion on Tiny Toy Stories in 1996 the VHS and DVD releases of Toy Story in 2000 and the Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 1 2007 24 Tin Toy is also available for streaming on Disney Academy Award edit 1988 Best Animated Short Film Other awards edit 1989 Seattle International Film Festival Best Short Film1989 World Animation Celebration Best Computer Assisted Animation2003 National Film RegistryMerchandising editApart from the home video editions of the short film Tin Toy was not the subject of any type of merchandise like all of the other short films that have been produced by the company The only exception is the reproduction of vinyl Tinny produced by MINDStyle in 2010 25 Pixar in fact sold the license to the manufacturer of Tin Toy MINDStyle objects which created a maquette of the vinyl character Tinny inside of the line Art Toy Collectible limited Edition of 500 pieces the price of ninety dollars The box which is a faithful reproduction of the packaging of the toy view in short in addition to containing the model of Tinny presents a certificate of authenticity printed on a card showing the storyboard in pencil of a scene from the short 26 Cancelled holiday special editThe success of Tin Toy gained attention from Disney CEO Michael Eisner and Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg who approached Pixar to produce a computer animated film In the early 1990s Pixar began to make arrangements with Disney to produce the first computer animated film The project went through but considering the abrupt transition from shorts to feature a few minutes to an hour and a half Pixar set out to create a special half hour to see if they could manage a production that was similar to that of an actual film Driven by the victory at the Oscars that year a sequel to Tin Toy called A Tin Toy Christmas was originally planned as a half hour long television special to be used to convince film studios that Pixar was capable of producing a feature film 27 This idea was brought to the table at the initial talks with Disney for Toy Story The basic idea was that Tinny was part of a set of toy players who are not successful and remain unsold for years Separated from other components Tinny ends up by mistake in a toy shop of our age where he meets several characters including a soft pink bear named Lotso 27 28 The project was abandoned because the television network that would have produced the film could not afford the fees required according to director Pete Docter the special would have required a sum of eighteen times higher than the allowed budget 27 Disney was uninterested in the concept and urged Pixar to produce a feature immediately which became a critical and commercial success 29 The character of Lotso however was adapted for Toy Story 3 as the main villain 27 Tinny himself makes a cameo in Toy Story 4 appearing when Woody and Bo Peep enter a pinball machine to meet Duke Caboom See also editToy Story 1995 Pixar s first computer animated feature film which grew out of a Tin Toy sequel The Brave Little Toaster 1987 Notes edit Steve Jobs 19 Eng Archived from the original on April 26 2012 a b c d Hill Jim July 31 2008 I can go to Disney and be a director or I can stay here and make history JimHillMedia com Retrieved March 5 2012 Price p 89 a b Price p 103 a b c d Price p 104 a b c d e Isaacson Walter 2011 Steve Jobs New York Simon amp Schuster p 247 ISBN 978 1 4516 4853 9 Isaacson Walter 2011 Steve Jobs New York Simon amp Schuster p 248 ISBN 978 1 4516 4853 9 a b c Amidi p 24 The Pixar Shorts A Short History YouTube 0 06 32 Walt Disney Pictures Price p 305 Audio commentary to the short Tin Toy John Lasseter Amidi p 23 InfoWorld 27 Feb 1989 February 27 1989 Retrieved October 12 2010 Renderman CGWiki Wiki cgsociety org October 24 2006 Archived from the original on July 21 2012 Retrieved October 12 2010 Apodaca Anthony A Gritz Larry Barzel Ronen 2000 Advanced RenderMan creating CGI for motion pictures Elsevier Science ISBN 9781558606180 Retrieved October 12 2010 a b c d e Price p 105 Pixar Opens Horizons for Pluto Dumbo et al NYTimes com Price David A 2008 The Pixar Touch P 105 New York Alfred A Knopf Bonanno Luke November 2007 Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 1 dvdizzy com Retrieved March 6 2012 a b Adam Arseneau Judge December 3 2007 Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 1 DVD Verdict Archived from the original on January 30 2012 Retrieved March 6 2012 Michael Stailey February 2 2008 Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 1 Blu Ray DVD Verdict Archived from the original on January 27 2012 Retrieved March 6 2012 Capps Chris September 29 2009 Cattle Rustlin in the Uncanny Valley Archived from the original on March 6 2016 Retrieved March 6 2012 a b c Price p 106 PIXAR SHORT FILMS COLLECTION VOLUME 1 Movie Metropolis November 12 2007 Archived from the original on June 24 2013 Retrieved June 24 2013 The Art Of Pixar MINDstyle August 2 2010 Pixar s Tin Toy MINDStyle Captain Toy August 11 2010 a b c d Hill Jim December 14 2007 The Pixar TV special you never got to see A Tin Toy Christmas JimHillMedia com Retrieved March 6 2012 It s Toy Hell Says Toy Story 3 Director Rotten Tomatoes 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