What was the biggest technical innovation on this film?
Probably the balloons. We knew early on that we needed a big clump of them, and I think the simulation was limited to something like 500, and we needed about 10,000. There are some innovations that have come about that we weren’t using on this, but you know, I think at least on this one — we were pretty smart about locking in what we really needed to tell the story. There were a couple of challenges along the way, but for the most part, everything worked out. We have — this is something that began with The Incredibles and was pretty innovative — a “fix team” that takes any scene that is not quite jibing with the scenes around it; they’ll manipulate the tweak to make it all a little more unified. So, you go back and look at say, Toy Story, and there’s some really great animation, paired right between some pretty kind of clunky stuff. And I think, all the kind of clunky stuff, we’re now taking up to the same level.
Is any of that “clunky stuff” being reworked for October's 3-D re-release of Toy Story?
No, but it was a great temptation, ’cause it’s like John Lasseter always says, “We don’t finish the films, we just release them.”
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