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Toy Story 5 used new animation tools for Blaze’s curly hair
Toy Story 5’s animation team developed new tools to make details look more lifelike while keeping the film recognizable as part of the series.
Producer Lindsey Collins said the technology has advanced enough to create more complex scenes than earlier films could.
The team created a tool for Blaze’s curly hair, which Collins said was difficult to make look natural.
The new tool helped the animators show the hair’s texture and softness.
The film also considered several endings for Jessie, including one where she met her former owner, Emily, as an adult.
The team instead chose a final scene involving buried treasure under a tree, which Collins said took the longest to settle on.
The ending gives Jessie a sense of closure, though the source does not say what happens next.
Producer Lindsey Collins said Toy Story 5 used a new tool to capture the curly hair of the character Blaze.
Collins said curly hair is difficult to make look right and required input from internal consultants.
She said the technology allowed the filmmakers to create more texture and softness than in earlier films.
Collins also said the film can show 50 Buzz Lightyears on 50 horses, a level of complexity that was not possible in the 1999 original.
Blaze is a friend who comes as a gift at the end of the film.
- Who
- Producer Lindsey Collins discussed the animation technology used in Toy Story 5.
- What
- The film’s team wrote a new tool to portray Blaze’s curly hair.
- When
- Not stated
- Where
- Not stated
- Why
- Curly hair is difficult to make look right, and the tool was created to capture the beauty and natural appearance of Blaze’s hair.
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- Film
- Toy Story 5
- Producer
- Lindsey Collins
- Character
- Blaze
- Animation tool
- Written to capture Blaze’s curly hair
- Rendering example
- 50 Buzz Lightyears on 50 horses
What people are saying
Curly hair is really hard.
So we wrote a whole tool for the first time on this film to really capture the beauty and the gorgeousness of Blaze’s hair
The level of complexity [of things] we can now do is pretty amazing