Why was the CGI style used for Toy Story?

[GambitGrrl]

You would have to ask them, but I would say the answer is "because they could".

Creative people are always looking to express themselves in different and new ways.

Edit:
And it was a gimmick.....Disney animated movies had been not as successful at that time as they had been in the past.

Of course I think that has less to do with the fact that it's cell animation, and more because they started writing terrible stories!

The movies coming from Japan from directors like Hayao Miyazaki are pretty much all cell animation and those movies are both beautiful and have wonderful stories!

Look for "Princess Mononoke", "Spirited Away", "Howl's Moving Castle" and out in theaters on the 14 of August "Ponyo".

[Discodiscodisco]

Toy Story was the first feature-length fully CGI animated film ever released to the general public and was obviously a huge hit, but what was it that made Disney and Pixar join up and make the whole thing CGI, something that had never been used to that extent before...?

[MMMeeeeee]

You answered that yourself in your question.

QUOTE "Toy Story was the first feature-length fully CGI animated film ever released"

It was a new thing so it would obviously pull in people to watch it.

[garyindiana]

I can't answer your Q... but I took the kids to see Toy Story at the cinema and enjoyed it more than they did..I'm a big cartoon fan from the Flintstones era.. and Tom Hanks is a genius anyway.. .

[garyindiana]

I can't answer your Q... but I took the kids to see Toy Story at the cinema and enjoyed it more than they did..I'm a big cartoon fan from the Flintstones era.. and Tom Hanks is a genius anyway.. .