Tin Toy
| Tin Toy | |
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 Poster for Tin Toy |
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| Directed by | John Lasseter |
| Produced by | John Lasseter |
| Written by | John Lasseter |
| Studio | Pixar |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
| Release date(s) | December 30, 1988 (SIGGRAPH) 2000 (with the 2000 home video release of Toy Story) |
| Running time | 5 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Budget | $300,000 [1] |
Tin Toy is a 1988 short film using computer animation. It was directed by John Lasseter and produced by Pixar. It was the first testing of PhotoRealistic RenderMan.[2] This was the only Pixar short rendered on the RM-1 computer, which was never sold to the public and was based on an earlier rendering machine named the Reyes Machine, an ambitious hardware project meant to develop a RenderMan specific computer (ILM also tested it in a ride film).[3][4] The short was attached in the 2000 home video release of Toy Story.
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[edit] Plot
The film takes place in one room and stars the toy of the title, a mechanical one-man band named Tinny, and a baby named Billy. At first Tinny is delighted at the prospect of being played with by Billy until he sees how destructive he can be. Fleeing beneath the couch, Tinny discovers dozens of other old toys who are too terrified to come out as they went through the same experience. But then Billy falls flat on the hardwood floor and starts crying, Tinny feels ashamed of himself, and decides he has to help no matter what. His antics succeed in cheering Billy up, to the point where Billy picks him up and shakes him violently before throwing him away. Once the toy has recovered from this ordeal, he is annoyed to see that Billy has forgotten about him and is now playing with the cardboard box and bag that he came out of. Billy walks off with the bag on his head, wandering around the room with Tinny following while the credits roll. At the end of the credits, Billy and Tinny walk out the door of the room and a few other toys come out of hiding to run across the floor.
[edit] Awards
This film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 1989 at the 61st Academy Awards and is the first computer generated animated short film to receive an Oscar. It was also Pixar's first Oscar win. 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" in 2003.
[edit] Academy Award
1989 - Best Animated Short Film
[edit] Other awards
1989 - Seattle International Film Festival - Best Short Film
1989 - World Animation Celebration - Best Computer-Assisted Animation
2003 - National Film Registry
[edit] Legacy
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. This idea was brought to the table at the initial talks with Disney for Toy Story, but Disney was uninterested in the concept and urged Pixar to produce a feature immediately which became a critical and commercial success.[5]
In Toy Story 2, part of the "Tin Toy" appears when Rex is flipping channels to find Al the chicken.
Some of the toys under the couch appeared in Toy Story 3. However, the film was criticized for making Billy seem scary-looking.
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes
- ^ Steve Jobs 19 [Eng ]
- ^ InfoWorld - 27 Feb 1989. Books.google.com. 1989-02-27. http://books.google.com/books?id=IToEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT20&lpg=PT20&dq=%22tin+toy%22+pixar+%22PhotoRealistic+RenderMan%22&source=bl&ots=Ubj9MXhEVM&sig=8jWCVxSyjWC0mK8eAozIYb_raBM&hl=en&ei=qH9fTJyaIoScOJbNmb0J&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBEQ6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=%22tin%20toy%22%20pixar%20%22PhotoRealistic%20RenderMan%22&f=false. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
- ^ "Renderman - CGWiki". Wiki.cgsociety.org. 2006-10-24. http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php/Renderman. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
- ^ Advanced RenderMan: creating CGI for motion pictures. Books.google.com. http://books.google.com/books?id=3jM5EZC1rs4C&pg=PA509&lpg=PA509&dq=tin+toy+pixar+%22rm-1%22+machine&source=bl&ots=Tkf9VoN8FT&sig=gCwg7wXi_yPg3WcJKix5ae2f_fE&hl=en&ei=73tfTLKUEt6gOPef9LwJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBQ. Retrieved 2010-10-12.
- ^ To Infinity and Beyond!: The Story of Pixar Animation Studios
[edit] External links
- Tin Toy at Pixar
- Tin Toy at the Internet Movie Database
- Tin Toy at the Big Cartoon DataBase
| Preceded by Red's Dream |
Pixar Animation Studios short films 1988 |
Succeeded by Knick Knack |
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