This is a clip of early character development animations for woody and buzz, it is so interesting to see how different these are from the final film and how, even at Pixar, the first idea you come up with is generally developed into a final character/scene, and it is also good to hear how the thought process went, well as much as they will tell you of course, and I guess one of the key things is to look at your first animation and then to see how that can be developed and which parts say what you want or give the feeling you want, things like the proportions of the limbs in these toys for example, and the facial expressions, choice of voice, there is so much that goes into a successful animation, and so much of it is planning and trial and error as you develop the characters and the details of the plot.

I have to look at one of my favourite kids films, toy story, this was the first full length computer animated film, so is kind of relevant to what we are doing. Plus as I am thinking of using a car for my maya animation I wanted to look at the remote control car in the film, RC, to see if I can get some inspiration from it.