1The Hub of the WheelThe Setup

DOI: 10.4324/9781003167945-2

Toy Story came out and it just blew the world wide open. It’s very, very exciting because after seventy or eighty years of making films in largely the same way, suddenly there’s technology existing and people making films that are raising the bar, pushing the boundaries. You feel like you’re living in a pioneering filmmaking time again.1

—Peter Jackson, Director (The Lord of the Rings, King Kong)

Photo 1.1   “Tin Toy” (1988).

© Pixar.

Wild, Wild West

After driving through an industrial landscape pocked with oil refining tanks, a fresh-faced Lee Unkrich arrived at a nondescript ...

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