""I remember at the very beginning, we talked a lot about the fact that when we were young, we wished that our toys would come alive and that we could talk to them, " Toy Story editor Lee Unkrich explained, "We all spent time alone in our rooms wanting a friend. And so our toys kind of, you know, we hoped that they could do that.""
""We collect and preserve the creative heritage of the company, its history. And this is where it is housed," archivist Christine Freeman shared, "there are things that are very unexpected about the collection.""
""He's establishing the safety of Andy's room; the warmth of a summer day, that's lemony. This is the color script. And this is basically the palette that they followed in individual sequences," Freeman shared."
Pixar celebrated Toy Story's 30th anniversary by opening its archives to reveal early concept drawings, production notebooks, and unconventional props used during development. The archives include unexpected items such as an early gloomy Woody sketch and a pair of Nike shoes mounted on a board. Ralph Eggleston's notebook shows a deliberate color script that defines Andy's room as warm and 'lemony' to convey safety. Archivists preserve the studio's creative heritage and the materials illustrate iterative character versions and intentional color choices that guided the film's emotional and visual storytelling.
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