

“That was probably one of the biggest tests of what Pixar was as a company and a culture we ever went through.” That was all added in that pitch as well. The opening of the film, which is Buzz playing with the robots, which I spent a lot of my time working on, where Buzz blows up a quarter-million robots with that crystal… that explosion. And all the effects work was added to the film.

He added: “They were all built and assembled then. All the background extras in the airport at the end.” And most of the humans in the film and show. “That’s a fully animated quadruped… On the fly. And that character went from being out to being in the screenplay to in the final screen in nine months. Lighting was in the film a little bit, but that was tossed as well.

So all camera work would start from scratch. “Effectively all animation was tossed,” said Jacob in the interview.
