Still, "Toy Story" almost never got off the ground. Here's the behind-the-scenes story you don't know ... Pixar's machines could do, Lasseter directed a short all-CGI cartoon called "Tin Toy." ...

What would later become “Toy Story” actually grew out of a project to make a half-hour holiday special, spun off from the Academy Award-winning short film, “Tin ... Pixar team they didn’t ...

Toy Story was an absolute outlier for Disney. It wasn’t based ... now renamed Pixar—was spun off as its own thing. In 1988, they took home an Oscar for the animated short Tin Toy and became ...

The wizardry wasn't done overnight; it took a lot of trial ... Following the success of the Oscar-winning short film, 1988's Tin Toy, Pixar decided to expand its stories from a little toy's ...

Here are 10 surprising things you probably didn't know about "Toy Story ... Aldrin even gave toy Buzz space travel advice in 2008. Pixar's "Tin Toy" short helped lead to the creation of "Toy ...

But Catmull’s goal was always to make a computer-animated feature, Docter said, and after after Pixar won an Oscar for its short film Tin Toy ... "That didn’t happen. We ended up with 33." ...

What would later become “Toy Story” actually grew out of a project to make a half-hour holiday special, spun off from the Academy Award-winning short film, “Tin ... Pixar team they didn’t ...