\n\tAs evidenced by the latest Toy Story film, technology is here to stay in toys and beyond.<\/p>\n
\n\tFor producer Lindsey Collins<\/a>, whose credits also include Disney<\/a>\/Pixar<\/a>\u2018s A Bug\u2019s Life, Ratatouille, Finding Nemo and Turning Red, the key is balancing not overdeveloping the looks of animations in the films with moving them forward to suit advancements humanity has made and better capture certain details.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201c[We] try to keep it so we\u2019re not evolving it so fast or so much that people are like, \u2018This doesn\u2019t feel like the Toy Story I recognize or I know,\u2019 but also make sure that we\u2019re keeping it so that we\u2019re taking advantage of all the things we can do,\u201d Collins said on a panel at Deadline\u2019s Contenders Film Los Angeles event. \u201cThe technology just lets us do anything now. At the time, it was so restricted, like no hair or fur on the dog, or you couldn\u2019t have you have tight clothing on everybody. One of the things that we\u2019re really proud of is the character Blaze, who we all love, who\u2019s the friend that ultimately comes as the gift at the end of the film. Curly hair is really hard.<\/p>\n \n\tRELATED: \u2018Toy Story 5\u2019 Writer-Director Andrew Stanton Wants To Bring Nuance To The Conversation Between Kids & Technology<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve done curly hair before,\u201d she added. \u201cWe\u2019ve done it on Brave, but it is a technology that\u2019s really hard to make look right. So we wrote a whole tool for the first time on this film to really capture the beauty and the gorgeousness of Blaze\u2019s hair, and it took a ton of consultants internally to make sure: \u2018Does it feel right? Does that look right? Does that feel like it looks natural to her?\u2019 Those are the kinds of things that we try to do to take advantage of all this technology now to go, \u2018Oh my gosh, we can now actually start to deliver a real sense of texture and softness,\u2019 and that\u2019s the kind of stuff that we would have cheated on all the other films.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCollins also marveled at the ability to create 50 Buzz Lightyears on 50 horses in the fifth film versus the possibility of rendering one in the 1999 original.<\/p>\n \n\tRELATED: The 65 Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe level of complexity [of things] we can now do is pretty amazing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \n\tThere was a version of the film\u2019s ending where star character Jessie (voiced by Joan Cusack) meets an older version of her previous owner, Emily.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cBecause it was Jessie\u2019s story, we knew we wanted her to reckon with the past with Emily, and there was a version at one point where she actually meets Emily, all grown up and old, and and we were like, \u201cThat\u2019s a trip. OK, does that feel satisfying?\u2019 As an audience, there was a lot of conversation around what\u2019s going to be the satisfying gift for Jesse at the end,\u201d Collins said. \u201cIs it seeing Emily? Is it kind of understanding, getting the chance to kind of play with her again? These toys are like vampires; they don\u2019t age. The rest of the world ages around them. We knew it had to be something that felt like it was the gift for her that she needed, the closure, and so that last scene with the buried treasure under the tree was the thing that probably took the longest to land.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRELATED: The 30 Highest-Grossing Animated Films Of All Time At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/p>\n \n\tCollins closed the panel with reluctance that the films could eventually center AI, but she also didn\u2019t rule out a next film to complete the \u201cBonnie years\u201d trilogy just as Andy got three films.<\/p>\n \n\tCheck back Monday for the full video.<\/p>\n \n\tRELATED: Deadline Launches Its Contenders London Streaming Site<\/a><\/p>\n