Making this project was one of the hardest things I've ever done, and seeing as Thanksgiving is in a while (for the Americans, at least) I thought I'd share this little animation I did last year. I had the idea for this animation a while back when I found some audio that Tom Hanks (the voice actor for Woody) did for a ABC television short for Toy Story back in 1998, I think. When I found the audio, it was only about a week until Thanksgiving, so I decided to work with a real deadline for once. I started animating Woody which was actually not that hard. Buzz was a nightmare because his rig was garbage. Especially his eyes. If you could see this big enough, you'd see his eye sometimes comes off the whites. Everything that you can see here is done by me; the surfacing, the modeling, the animation, lighting, the audio editing, the compositing, the rendering, etc. After I had finished the animation somehow, I began surfacing, lighting and rendering. Woody is super complex and it took forever to just be able to see a super noisy image. I wanted the lighting to stay true to Toy Story, so I got inspiration from multiple color scripts Pixar had done for the Toy Story movies. After a week, I rendered the whole thing (which rendered 14 hours straight (and is still noisy, sadly)), and edited the audio. Sadly, when I tried to render with motion blur, Woody got smudged and his teeth would appear out of his mouth which was... creepy, so sadly there's no motion blur. Also, there is no depth-of-field because that would cause a lot of noise that I was not willing to spend weeks rendering out. But here's the final product anyway! Note, you may need to click the flag a few times, aheh. Also, if you don't believe I actually did this, there's some proof inside. :} (And yes, I am aware that Buzz looks creepily not-accurate, I tried okay– XD)
