1 00:00:01,711 --> 00:00:03,796 This is Toy Story, Disney Studios, 2 00:00:03,921 --> 00:00:07,216 February 4th, 1995. Recording Tim Allen as Buzz. 3 00:00:07,300 --> 00:00:10,178 So, this is that beginning section where you must have written. 4 00:00:10,261 --> 00:00:11,304 Do you read me? 5 00:00:12,638 --> 00:00:15,266 Buzz Lightyear to Star Command. Come in, Star Command. 6 00:00:16,684 --> 00:00:18,644 Star Command, come in. Do you read me? 7 00:00:19,062 --> 00:00:20,563 Why don't they answer? 8 00:00:21,064 --> 00:00:23,483 ANGUS MACLANE: When we were making Toy Story, the first one, 9 00:00:23,566 --> 00:00:27,945 it was just director John Lasseter and a very small group of us 10 00:00:28,029 --> 00:00:30,865 coming up with the characters and situations. 11 00:00:30,948 --> 00:00:33,951 And, of course, the toy version of Buzz. 12 00:00:34,035 --> 00:00:35,953 And now we're about to release a film 13 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:38,873 about the origin story of this Buzz Lightyear character. 14 00:00:40,625 --> 00:00:42,418 We get to grapple with this question, 15 00:00:45,671 --> 00:00:47,507 "Who is Buzz Lightyear?" 16 00:00:57,016 --> 00:00:59,936 I'm Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger, Universe Protection Unit. 17 00:01:00,019 --> 00:01:04,607 His job in the first films is to show up and basically push Woody's buttons. 18 00:01:07,110 --> 00:01:09,445 He's the best of the best, and he knows it. 19 00:01:11,322 --> 00:01:13,533 He understands everything in all the manuals, 20 00:01:13,616 --> 00:01:14,951 he's studied the hardest. 21 00:01:15,034 --> 00:01:16,119 Woody, are you all right? 22 00:01:16,202 --> 00:01:19,038 He's the strongest, he's the fastest, he's the estest. 23 00:01:19,539 --> 00:01:21,165 (TOYS GASP) 24 00:01:21,249 --> 00:01:25,086 Buzz is the most upright citizen... 25 00:01:25,169 --> 00:01:27,880 We will not rest until he's safe in Andy's room! 26 00:01:27,964 --> 00:01:32,844 ...and takes his policing job very, very, very seriously. 27 00:01:33,136 --> 00:01:34,762 Watch yourself! Halt! Who goes there? 28 00:01:34,846 --> 00:01:37,014 He's the straight guy, he's the very literal guy. 29 00:01:37,098 --> 00:01:40,893 Everything that's on the box is the sum total of his knowledge. 30 00:01:41,144 --> 00:01:43,646 BUZZ: I protect the galaxy from the threat of invasion. 31 00:01:43,729 --> 00:01:45,439 He doesn't understand that he's the toy 32 00:01:45,523 --> 00:01:48,693 based off of this character on the big screen, 33 00:01:50,153 --> 00:01:51,612 He thinks he is that character. 34 00:01:51,696 --> 00:01:53,948 Very impressed with Andy's new toy. 35 00:01:54,031 --> 00:01:56,492 -Toy? -T-O-Y. Toy. 36 00:01:56,576 --> 00:02:00,580 Excuse me, I think the word you're searching for is "Space Ranger." 37 00:02:00,663 --> 00:02:04,125 And the comedy all comes from that disagreement over the nature of reality. 38 00:02:04,208 --> 00:02:05,918 (GASPING) 39 00:02:08,421 --> 00:02:09,797 (GAGGING) 40 00:02:10,256 --> 00:02:13,217 It was Woody's movie, but you need one for the other to work. 41 00:02:14,802 --> 00:02:15,970 It's a dance. 42 00:02:17,930 --> 00:02:20,266 Good morning, I'm Pete. 43 00:02:20,349 --> 00:02:23,477 Today we'll learn how to animate in less than two minutes. 44 00:02:23,561 --> 00:02:26,772 We type in the magic UNIX commands. 45 00:02:26,856 --> 00:02:29,775 In 1990, Pixar had done a bunch of short films. 46 00:02:31,819 --> 00:02:35,031 I knew that the goal was to eventually do a feature, 47 00:02:35,114 --> 00:02:36,616 and the thought was, 48 00:02:36,699 --> 00:02:39,160 "Let's do an intermediate step, we'll do a Christmas special." 49 00:02:40,119 --> 00:02:43,497 Using characters from one of the short films, Tin Toy. 50 00:02:47,877 --> 00:02:50,338 That just seemed like a very appealing, fun world, 51 00:02:50,421 --> 00:02:54,217 the world of toys. Seeing things from the toys' point of view, way down low. 52 00:02:55,718 --> 00:02:59,847 The thrill was this must be what it feels like to be this small 53 00:02:59,931 --> 00:03:03,226 on the floor and encounter a giant reckless baby. 54 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:09,232 At the same time, Disney said, "Hey, you know what? 55 00:03:09,732 --> 00:03:12,068 "We'd be willing to spring for a feature. 56 00:03:12,151 --> 00:03:15,071 "What do you want to do?" And we were like, "I have no idea." 57 00:03:15,154 --> 00:03:18,074 So we thought, what if we just use the Christmas special 58 00:03:18,157 --> 00:03:20,201 that we are writing as the first act 59 00:03:20,284 --> 00:03:22,578 and then we'll just go from there, 60 00:03:22,662 --> 00:03:24,747 because we had no idea what we were doing. 61 00:03:25,206 --> 00:03:26,499 In animation at that time, 62 00:03:26,582 --> 00:03:28,793 it was musical, musical... Only musicals. 63 00:03:28,918 --> 00:03:32,505 So the idea that we could do some other kind of storytelling 64 00:03:32,588 --> 00:03:34,048 was really attractive. 65 00:03:36,133 --> 00:03:39,136 One of the first things that happened, in our story, was that 66 00:03:39,220 --> 00:03:43,557 Tinny met this other ventriloquist doll, the old established toy. 67 00:03:43,641 --> 00:03:45,393 And this new toy comes 68 00:03:45,476 --> 00:03:50,273 and is now threatening this old toy's place in Andy's room. 69 00:03:50,356 --> 00:03:53,526 This new cool, amazing tin toy? 70 00:03:54,360 --> 00:03:56,529 So we're like, "Okay, that doesn't quite work." 71 00:03:56,612 --> 00:03:58,572 What was the toy we all wanted as kids? 72 00:03:58,656 --> 00:04:00,616 We wanted action figures, you know, 73 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:03,577 with, like karate chop action or exploding briefcases, 74 00:04:03,661 --> 00:04:05,705 all kind of like, these moving parts. 75 00:04:06,372 --> 00:04:07,999 Tinny had to go up on the shelf, 76 00:04:08,082 --> 00:04:11,794 and his part was taken over by this brand new character that we were creating, 77 00:04:11,877 --> 00:04:13,212 named Buzz Lightyear. 78 00:04:14,588 --> 00:04:19,677 Initially, Buzz was more of a golden age space hero from the '30s. 79 00:04:23,848 --> 00:04:27,810 I did all these things that almost looked like water heaters with fins on them. 80 00:04:28,394 --> 00:04:30,980 Things that were based on Roman legionnaire helmets 81 00:04:31,105 --> 00:04:32,815 and all that older, classic stuff. 82 00:04:41,407 --> 00:04:43,534 LAUREN GAYLORD: We have so many drawings of Buzz 83 00:04:43,617 --> 00:04:45,661 that sometimes it's hard to differentiate. 84 00:04:47,496 --> 00:04:50,166 This is one that we have nicknamed Big Hair Buzz. 85 00:04:50,249 --> 00:04:53,627 It's a distinguishing part of this stage of character design, 86 00:04:53,711 --> 00:04:55,838 because in the end Buzz has no hair. 87 00:04:55,921 --> 00:04:58,799 DOCTER: Buzz Lightyear wasn't always called Buzz Lightyear. 88 00:04:58,883 --> 00:05:00,301 He was even called Lunar Larry. 89 00:05:00,384 --> 00:05:03,054 One of the suits has, like, the LL on it. 90 00:05:04,764 --> 00:05:07,933 This is from an early animation test. 91 00:05:08,017 --> 00:05:12,313 Woody is Slim, and the character that would become Buzz is Tecor, 92 00:05:12,396 --> 00:05:16,442 But it looks like they weren't necessarily satisfied with that 93 00:05:16,525 --> 00:05:21,197 because on this particular script, they've made all these other acronyms for him. 94 00:05:21,322 --> 00:05:24,742 He could have been TOLAR or MICROZ. 95 00:05:25,076 --> 00:05:27,995 JEFF PIDGEON: And then one of them was Tempus from Morph. 96 00:05:28,079 --> 00:05:32,833 I don't know if we use that for more than that one test. 97 00:05:36,796 --> 00:05:38,089 Hey, pal, whatcha doin'? 98 00:05:38,214 --> 00:05:40,091 I'm Tempus from Morph... 99 00:05:40,174 --> 00:05:41,842 Yeah, what's this button? 100 00:05:41,926 --> 00:05:44,303 Say, you weren't thinkin' of flyin', were ya'? 101 00:05:44,387 --> 00:05:47,181 -Well... -You know, Andy loves toys that can fly. 102 00:05:47,264 --> 00:05:48,432 BUZZ: Really? 103 00:05:48,516 --> 00:05:50,226 When we look at the final drawings, 104 00:05:50,309 --> 00:05:53,979 we think that was the right Buzz to choose. 105 00:05:54,063 --> 00:05:55,689 But how did we get there? 106 00:05:57,191 --> 00:06:00,319 So fun to just see all the iterations. 107 00:06:05,116 --> 00:06:07,576 Just warming up still. Yes. 108 00:06:08,411 --> 00:06:13,707 When I came on, John Lasseter wanted to have a contemporary new toy 109 00:06:13,916 --> 00:06:17,628 and asked if we could do something more like an astronaut. 110 00:06:19,797 --> 00:06:23,300 So we looked at NASA. We looked at the astronauts. 111 00:06:23,384 --> 00:06:25,511 Same time, we're going to the toy stores, 112 00:06:25,594 --> 00:06:29,682 we're taking things apart, figuring out how they work, how they articulate. 113 00:06:30,182 --> 00:06:33,602 And the wings needed to function like we're going to make this thing. 114 00:06:33,686 --> 00:06:37,231 So I came up with the way that they would swing out to the side. 115 00:06:37,314 --> 00:06:40,943 I thought you could make that. I can see a toy being built with that. 116 00:06:41,610 --> 00:06:44,447 The minute we said 12 inches like G.I. Joe, "Yes". 117 00:06:44,530 --> 00:06:46,031 The minute we said new, "Yes". 118 00:06:46,115 --> 00:06:48,325 Let's give him karate chop action, "Yes". 119 00:06:48,409 --> 00:06:51,328 The minute Bob Pauley said "What if we make it white 120 00:06:51,412 --> 00:06:53,330 and give it a little accent with color?" 121 00:06:53,414 --> 00:06:54,415 we are all like, "Yes." 122 00:06:54,540 --> 00:06:58,169 And he should have some declarative thing that he says. 123 00:06:58,252 --> 00:07:01,046 To infinity and beyond! 124 00:07:03,466 --> 00:07:05,468 That just made everybody laugh. 125 00:07:05,551 --> 00:07:08,220 We loved that it made no sense. (CHUCKLES) 126 00:07:08,679 --> 00:07:12,266 There is no beyond infinity. Infinity is infinite. 127 00:07:12,349 --> 00:07:14,518 Henceforth there is no beyond infinity. 128 00:07:14,602 --> 00:07:17,855 Felt like it really captured the essence of who he was. 129 00:07:19,482 --> 00:07:22,860 LEE UNKRICH: They had a sense of who Buzz was and who they wanted him to be. 130 00:07:22,943 --> 00:07:27,490 But once the decision was made to cast Tim Allen as Buzz, 131 00:07:27,573 --> 00:07:29,992 so much of his character just clicked into place. 132 00:07:30,117 --> 00:07:34,622 It was actually Tim Allen's idea to play Buzz like an average street cop. 133 00:07:35,372 --> 00:07:37,291 They've been watching Sid in the backyard, 134 00:07:37,374 --> 00:07:39,960 the mean kid, blow up the Combat Carl with the M-80. 135 00:07:40,044 --> 00:07:41,837 -I coulda stopped him. -Right. 136 00:07:42,421 --> 00:07:43,464 What's going on? 137 00:07:43,547 --> 00:07:47,301 So instead of being this unrealistic, kind of, 138 00:07:47,384 --> 00:07:50,679 "I'll save you, eager young space cadet," kind of guy, 139 00:07:50,763 --> 00:07:52,431 he's playing it more like, "Yeah, 140 00:07:52,515 --> 00:07:55,142 "I'm going to be hanging out around the corner." 141 00:07:55,226 --> 00:07:57,520 There's a kid over in that house who needs us. 142 00:07:57,603 --> 00:07:59,230 Now let's get you out of this thing. 143 00:07:59,313 --> 00:08:00,731 DOCTER: He's a bit more realistic. 144 00:08:00,814 --> 00:08:02,608 He's a little more earthbound. 145 00:08:02,691 --> 00:08:05,152 No, no, no. Go, go. Just go. I'll catch up. 146 00:08:05,236 --> 00:08:08,364 And it really shaped the way we wrote the character, 147 00:08:08,447 --> 00:08:11,325 the way we thought of him, in major ways. 148 00:08:11,408 --> 00:08:12,451 Sheriff! 149 00:08:13,244 --> 00:08:14,286 Sheriff? 150 00:08:14,578 --> 00:08:15,663 There you are. 151 00:08:18,707 --> 00:08:22,419 PAULEY: When we were designing Buzz, I thought we had something. 152 00:08:22,545 --> 00:08:24,088 You know, it was cool. 153 00:08:24,171 --> 00:08:28,842 But we didn't have a clue that this was going to become some kind of phenomenon, 154 00:08:30,302 --> 00:08:32,638 that Woody and Buzz would be household names. 155 00:08:33,931 --> 00:08:36,642 To infinity and beyond. 156 00:08:50,781 --> 00:08:54,243 (SPEAKING IN OTHER LANGUAGES) 157 00:08:56,996 --> 00:08:58,205 Space Ranger. 158 00:09:03,586 --> 00:09:05,588 WOODY: Buzz, this is the Oscars. 159 00:09:05,671 --> 00:09:07,464 It's supposed to be formal. 160 00:09:07,548 --> 00:09:09,883 Well, that would explain all the penguins then 161 00:09:09,967 --> 00:09:12,428 The whole thing was shocking. 162 00:09:12,511 --> 00:09:16,515 I remember when the film came out and driving down the freeway and be like, 163 00:09:16,599 --> 00:09:18,934 "There's a billboard for Toy Story." 164 00:09:20,394 --> 00:09:24,857 And it was really wild to see Buzz go up on the International Space Station. 165 00:09:27,067 --> 00:09:29,445 That was wow. 166 00:09:29,528 --> 00:09:31,822 You created this character who wants to be in space, 167 00:09:31,905 --> 00:09:35,409 and now he's literally gone further than most of us ever will. 168 00:09:35,492 --> 00:09:37,786 For us to think we would get to do anything more 169 00:09:40,497 --> 00:09:42,875 would have been just crazy thinking. 170 00:09:43,751 --> 00:09:45,127 Buzz Lightyear mission log. 171 00:09:45,210 --> 00:09:48,672 The local sheriff and I seem to be at a huge refueling station of some sort. 172 00:09:48,756 --> 00:09:52,926 Buzz was kind of a deluded sidekick, and somehow he really spoke to kids. 173 00:09:55,554 --> 00:09:57,806 I'm not sure exactly what that means. 174 00:09:59,808 --> 00:10:03,646 We tried to design a toy that would be really cool for Andy, 175 00:10:03,729 --> 00:10:06,690 that Andy would set aside Woody for. 176 00:10:07,441 --> 00:10:11,487 PAULEY: Turns out that we created a toy that in the movie was a good character, 177 00:10:11,570 --> 00:10:14,657 but also actually a pretty darn good toy in reality. 178 00:10:15,616 --> 00:10:17,618 JENNIFER TAN: He is the toy that all the kids want. 179 00:10:21,038 --> 00:10:25,334 There's always an interest in continuing the exploration of Buzz as a toy. 180 00:10:30,589 --> 00:10:32,758 How else can we have fun with Buzz? 181 00:10:37,388 --> 00:10:41,350 He's this superhero that every kid either wants to be like 182 00:10:41,475 --> 00:10:43,519 or wants to be friends with. 183 00:10:44,478 --> 00:10:48,023 Buzz appeals to adults and kids of all ages, 184 00:10:48,148 --> 00:10:49,775 of all genders, 185 00:10:49,858 --> 00:10:51,944 And that's why you see Buzz everything. 186 00:10:53,654 --> 00:10:57,074 There's Buzz costumes, Buzz sneakers. 187 00:10:57,241 --> 00:11:02,121 We work on action figures, pencil toppers, apparel... 188 00:11:02,204 --> 00:11:03,497 TAN: Buzz backpacks, 189 00:11:04,623 --> 00:11:08,085 lunchboxes, juice boxes, paper towels, 190 00:11:08,794 --> 00:11:10,129 anything you can think of. 191 00:11:11,130 --> 00:11:13,507 Stickers on bananas, socks. 192 00:11:13,590 --> 00:11:15,801 I love my Buzz and Woody socks. 193 00:11:16,510 --> 00:11:18,887 I love how Buzz is everywhere 194 00:11:18,971 --> 00:11:22,266 and people have made their versions of him. 195 00:11:24,768 --> 00:11:26,228 UNKRICH: A lot of it's handcrafted. 196 00:11:26,311 --> 00:11:28,355 a lot of it's not coming out of factories. 197 00:11:28,439 --> 00:11:33,235 It's just people making cool little wooden pull toys or puppets. 198 00:11:33,819 --> 00:11:35,779 People just love the characters. 199 00:11:35,863 --> 00:11:38,866 PAULEY: I guess, in a way, the design worked out, and it looks good 200 00:11:38,949 --> 00:11:41,326 because you can be still so far off 201 00:11:41,452 --> 00:11:44,163 and you know there's a Buzz in there somewhere. 202 00:11:44,246 --> 00:11:46,582 SUSMAN: I have seen some bizarre ones. 203 00:11:47,708 --> 00:11:50,711 They look like Buzz was put in a microwave. 204 00:11:50,794 --> 00:11:54,465 It's not really the real Buzz, but you can tell it's Buzz Lightyear. 205 00:12:00,596 --> 00:12:02,264 MACLANE: When I started working at Pixar, 206 00:12:03,474 --> 00:12:06,727 I was just blown away by the Buzz Lightyear character. 207 00:12:07,561 --> 00:12:10,314 His square personality, I always thought, was hilarious. 208 00:12:11,482 --> 00:12:13,859 DOCTER: Angus became the go-to Buzz animator. 209 00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:16,945 If I'm having trouble, I can go to Angus, 210 00:12:17,029 --> 00:12:20,240 not only with technical things, but with artistic choices. 211 00:12:20,324 --> 00:12:22,242 Like, what kind of expressions he makes, 212 00:12:22,326 --> 00:12:24,411 -and hand gestures. -(GASPING) 213 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,540 And I'd always wondered what was the show 214 00:12:28,624 --> 00:12:31,251 or the movie that Buzz Lightyear came from. 215 00:12:31,335 --> 00:12:35,547 And so that was something that was always cooking in the back of my head. 216 00:12:36,256 --> 00:12:39,176 Terrain seems a bit unstable. 217 00:12:39,259 --> 00:12:42,471 SUSMAN: Lightyear and Toy Story are intrinsically connected. 218 00:12:43,222 --> 00:12:49,102 Andy, the kid in Toy Story, is so excited to get this Buzz Lightyear doll. 219 00:12:49,186 --> 00:12:51,063 Why is he so excited? 220 00:12:51,146 --> 00:12:55,317 Well, we all thought that he was excited because he probably went to see a movie. 221 00:12:56,235 --> 00:12:58,529 And we're saying that that movie is Lightyear. 222 00:13:01,490 --> 00:13:03,242 MACLANE: Then it was trying to figure out, 223 00:13:03,325 --> 00:13:06,203 "Well, what kind of story are we telling with Buzz?" 224 00:13:07,204 --> 00:13:12,000 And the character is more than just the character in the Toy Story world. 225 00:13:12,084 --> 00:13:13,877 It's a different character. 226 00:13:15,212 --> 00:13:19,216 There's a general way that Buzz moves through the world, a confidence, 227 00:13:19,299 --> 00:13:20,384 This way! 228 00:13:20,467 --> 00:13:21,552 ...a belief in himself. 229 00:13:21,635 --> 00:13:23,846 I'm Buzz Lightyear. I'm always sure. 230 00:13:23,929 --> 00:13:26,306 But we have to feel like he has this inner life. 231 00:13:27,641 --> 00:13:32,187 SUSMAN: Having an iconic character to start from doesn't solve it for us. 232 00:13:32,271 --> 00:13:34,189 It makes it a little easier, 233 00:13:34,273 --> 00:13:37,317 but there's a whole lot of discovery we have to do. 234 00:13:37,401 --> 00:13:40,112 And the stakes are even higher when you're reimagining 235 00:13:40,195 --> 00:13:42,489 such a beloved character like Buzz Lightyear. 236 00:13:43,407 --> 00:13:46,827 I think the texture is the next thing, and then lighting. Which... 237 00:13:46,910 --> 00:13:48,912 STANTON: The biggest thing a director does... 238 00:13:48,996 --> 00:13:51,915 This is nice and elegant, but it has to be pushed up just a hair. 239 00:13:51,999 --> 00:13:54,167 You're a coach, you're a cheerleader... 240 00:13:54,334 --> 00:13:55,544 It feels pretty great. 241 00:13:55,627 --> 00:13:56,962 I love the gesture of the nose. 242 00:13:57,045 --> 00:14:00,632 ...you're a vision keeper and you're a navigator. 243 00:14:03,010 --> 00:14:06,013 There's a lot of times you're just at the bow of the ship 244 00:14:06,096 --> 00:14:09,391 where there's just a ton of fog, and you're saying, "There's land there, 245 00:14:09,474 --> 00:14:11,435 "Believe me, I promise you we'll get there." 246 00:14:12,269 --> 00:14:14,897 I think the action is actually just the steam. 247 00:14:14,980 --> 00:14:21,820 A lot of great sci-fi hinges on a real world parable or a deeper truth. 248 00:14:21,904 --> 00:14:24,323 So I was trying to find what's the deeper truth? 249 00:14:28,535 --> 00:14:31,204 When you're making a movie, it takes such a long time. 250 00:14:32,539 --> 00:14:35,792 You need to find something you can latch onto that feels personal. 251 00:14:38,378 --> 00:14:43,050 This campus is one of the inspirations for the movie. 252 00:14:43,133 --> 00:14:45,636 I have different memories from different years 253 00:14:45,719 --> 00:14:48,430 that go back 20, almost 22 years now. 254 00:14:49,056 --> 00:14:51,224 That's where I brought my daughter to work 255 00:14:51,308 --> 00:14:54,436 for the very first time when she was six months old. 256 00:14:54,519 --> 00:14:56,438 We finished the movie there. 257 00:14:57,105 --> 00:14:59,566 That's the last time I saw that person alive. 258 00:14:59,650 --> 00:15:02,110 Having been at the studio for a long time, 259 00:15:02,194 --> 00:15:05,530 the sense of time passing was first and foremost in my mind. 260 00:15:07,199 --> 00:15:10,953 When you work on films, the perceived time passes differently. 261 00:15:12,829 --> 00:15:16,959 You do these four-year jumps, these five-year jumps, 262 00:15:17,042 --> 00:15:20,045 When you stick your head out of the hole, you go, "What happened?" 263 00:15:20,128 --> 00:15:22,839 Everyone else is like, "All kinds of things happened." 264 00:15:25,592 --> 00:15:27,469 The pandemic certainly added to that. 265 00:15:29,513 --> 00:15:30,931 DEAN KELLY: It's like Groundhog Day. 266 00:15:31,014 --> 00:15:33,892 We have our deadlines and then my kid's school year. 267 00:15:33,976 --> 00:15:36,311 That's how you knew that time was passing. 268 00:15:37,145 --> 00:15:40,983 At Pixar, we've been lucky to be able to work through this pandemic. 269 00:15:41,066 --> 00:15:44,611 SUSMAN: Immersed back in our families in ways that we hadn't been. 270 00:15:44,695 --> 00:15:49,074 KELLY: Looking at it now, it's evident that the pandemic influenced Buzz's story. 271 00:15:49,157 --> 00:15:53,412 Being able to overcome these odds, but also know that you're not alone 272 00:15:53,495 --> 00:15:55,622 and trying to do what you need to get done. 273 00:15:56,873 --> 00:16:01,044 It's amazing to see how connected we are and how separated we are at the same time. 274 00:16:02,587 --> 00:16:05,007 "That would be an interesting problem for Buzz. 275 00:16:05,090 --> 00:16:06,675 "Could he be in a situation where 276 00:16:06,758 --> 00:16:09,636 "he was traveling through time at a different rate than others?" 277 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:10,762 It's looking good. 278 00:16:10,846 --> 00:16:13,056 I don't want to overwork the dough on that stuff. 279 00:16:13,557 --> 00:16:14,558 -All right. -Great. 280 00:16:14,641 --> 00:16:16,059 -Hey, welcome, everybody. -MAN: Same. 281 00:16:16,143 --> 00:16:20,856 MACLANE: The Pixar story process is simultaneously regimented 282 00:16:22,399 --> 00:16:23,775 and also chaos. 283 00:16:23,859 --> 00:16:27,320 The first few years of the film, it's actually the story department 284 00:16:27,404 --> 00:16:30,282 and editorial kind of building the film from scratch. 285 00:16:31,908 --> 00:16:35,412 In story, we're drawing every single thing that's on the page 286 00:16:35,495 --> 00:16:36,997 in a very cinematic way, 287 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,625 and we get to see how each part of the script is working or not working. 288 00:16:41,460 --> 00:16:44,337 BUZZ: I'm not sure you could classify this as wallowing. 289 00:16:44,421 --> 00:16:47,299 It's interesting how quickly it starts to feel like a movie. 290 00:16:47,382 --> 00:16:50,761 Couple of frames in and you're like, "Okay, this is what this is." 291 00:16:50,844 --> 00:16:53,096 He's like, "Hang in there, guys." And then... 292 00:16:53,180 --> 00:16:55,432 (IMITATES EXPLOSION) Blast! 293 00:16:55,515 --> 00:16:58,852 We're constantly revising our movie, 294 00:16:58,935 --> 00:17:00,228 our story, our script. 295 00:17:00,353 --> 00:17:02,856 HEADLEY: You never think, "That's good, we're finished." 296 00:17:02,939 --> 00:17:05,275 There are holes that are just filled with stuff 297 00:17:05,358 --> 00:17:07,527 that aren't going to be a part of the movie. 298 00:17:07,611 --> 00:17:11,323 MACLANE: Unpacking why things are funny, why things work is part of the job. 299 00:17:12,157 --> 00:17:15,702 We have to get to the next bit, and I feel like the next bit is 300 00:17:15,786 --> 00:17:17,746 Zurg holding Buzz, right? 301 00:17:17,829 --> 00:17:18,830 So he turns... 302 00:17:19,456 --> 00:17:22,667 What if it's a reaction, like Zurg's like... And he reacts? 303 00:17:22,751 --> 00:17:25,504 That way. Just so we know that something is wrong. 304 00:17:25,587 --> 00:17:28,423 What's great about science fiction is you can do anything. 305 00:17:31,843 --> 00:17:37,724 We've written so many sequences that don't exist anymore, that are just so fun. 306 00:17:38,350 --> 00:17:41,311 Laser heists and sticky space situations, 307 00:17:41,561 --> 00:17:43,480 falling from great heights, 308 00:17:43,563 --> 00:17:44,731 killer robots. 309 00:17:44,898 --> 00:17:46,983 All these things that you're trying out, 310 00:17:47,067 --> 00:17:49,277 and ultimately none of that matters. 311 00:17:49,361 --> 00:17:52,823 What matters is what's happening with these characters in this moment, 312 00:17:52,906 --> 00:17:55,784 how they're changing from these people into these people. 313 00:17:57,869 --> 00:17:59,371 Ready, Captain Lightyear? 314 00:17:59,454 --> 00:18:01,498 Ready as I'll ever be, Commander Hawthorne. 315 00:18:01,581 --> 00:18:03,500 -To infinity... -And beyond. 316 00:18:03,583 --> 00:18:05,001 -(IMITATES EXPLOSION) -(GASPS) 317 00:18:05,085 --> 00:18:06,169 (GRUNTS) No. 318 00:18:06,253 --> 00:18:08,505 ANGUS MACLANE: Buzz in this film is a Space Ranger. 319 00:18:09,089 --> 00:18:13,385 He is a human from Earth, dedicated to Star Command. 320 00:18:17,389 --> 00:18:19,558 CHRIS EVANS: The movie begins with Buzz Lightyear 321 00:18:19,641 --> 00:18:22,060 and his people on this giant, giant ship. 322 00:18:26,064 --> 00:18:30,902 They stop on a detour 'cause they notice a planet that has some resources. 323 00:18:34,573 --> 00:18:37,701 Buzz Lightyear Mission Log. Stardate 3-9-0-1. 324 00:18:37,784 --> 00:18:41,204 Sensors have detected potential lifeforms on an uncharted planet. 325 00:18:41,830 --> 00:18:44,499 There seems to be no sign of intelligent life anywhere. 326 00:18:45,584 --> 00:18:48,879 EVANS: The ship gets attacked, then, as they're trying to take off, 327 00:18:48,962 --> 00:18:52,132 Buzz is responsible for the ship crashing. 328 00:18:53,884 --> 00:18:56,553 MACLANE: He spends an entire film trying to get back home. 329 00:18:57,929 --> 00:19:00,473 Not only is it his fault, based on his actions, 330 00:19:00,557 --> 00:19:03,602 but he had the opportunity to be assisted. He could've had help. 331 00:19:03,685 --> 00:19:05,729 I'm better off just doing the job myself. 332 00:19:07,355 --> 00:19:10,525 In trying to return home, 333 00:19:11,526 --> 00:19:16,740 Buzz would have to be doing tests that would cause him to time travel. 334 00:19:22,704 --> 00:19:25,123 COMPUTER: Approaching 50% hyperspeed. 335 00:19:25,207 --> 00:19:28,501 It takes him about four or five minutes to do one of these missions 336 00:19:28,585 --> 00:19:31,004 while everybody else on the planet ages four years. 337 00:19:31,087 --> 00:19:35,383 He is aging at a different rate than all of his friends, 338 00:19:35,467 --> 00:19:39,262 and he sees them grow old as he continually fails 339 00:19:39,346 --> 00:19:41,306 to make up for the big mistake. 340 00:19:42,140 --> 00:19:45,435 That social dislocation was the most captivating to all of us. 341 00:19:45,769 --> 00:19:46,978 Thought we'd lost you, Buzz. 342 00:19:47,062 --> 00:19:48,563 Alisha? What happened? 343 00:19:49,481 --> 00:19:50,523 Time dilation. 344 00:19:50,607 --> 00:19:51,691 What? 345 00:19:51,775 --> 00:19:53,193 Time dilation is quite simple. 346 00:19:53,276 --> 00:19:55,320 As you approached hyperspeed, 347 00:19:55,403 --> 00:19:57,781 your time slowed relative to our own. 348 00:19:57,864 --> 00:20:00,951 I'm glad you asked me about time dilation, because I am a physicist. 349 00:20:01,201 --> 00:20:03,787 Right? So the faster... 350 00:20:04,371 --> 00:20:05,538 Oh, boy. 351 00:20:05,622 --> 00:20:07,540 The faster you travel, 352 00:20:07,624 --> 00:20:11,044 relative to something that is not traveling at that speed, 353 00:20:11,127 --> 00:20:16,174 your time slows down because time is relative and... 354 00:20:16,258 --> 00:20:20,303 The faster you you go toward... Approaching the speed of light, 355 00:20:20,929 --> 00:20:26,101 the less time passes for you relativistically. 356 00:20:26,685 --> 00:20:29,229 Now, nobody actually can hit the speed of light. 357 00:20:29,312 --> 00:20:31,398 You would become infinite mass. 358 00:20:31,481 --> 00:20:34,401 Would explode type of thing... Like, you wouldn't be. 359 00:20:35,318 --> 00:20:36,778 That makes no sense. 360 00:20:36,861 --> 00:20:39,990 You really should get somebody really smart in here for this. 361 00:20:42,534 --> 00:20:46,955 Station, this is Angus MacLane and Galyn Susman with Pixar Animation. 362 00:20:47,038 --> 00:20:48,123 Do you hear us? 363 00:20:48,206 --> 00:20:49,374 How do you hear us? 364 00:20:50,083 --> 00:20:52,669 The time dilations is real. 365 00:20:52,752 --> 00:20:54,713 Because the speed of light is the same 366 00:20:54,796 --> 00:20:57,757 no matter who's looking, who's observing it, 367 00:20:57,841 --> 00:21:00,468 that time progresses more slowly 368 00:21:00,552 --> 00:21:03,096 for people and objects that are moving fast 369 00:21:03,179 --> 00:21:05,265 compared to the objects that are not moving fast. 370 00:21:05,348 --> 00:21:08,018 MAN: Station, this is Houston ACR. That concludes the event. Thank you. 371 00:21:08,101 --> 00:21:09,394 MACLANE: Thank you. SUSMAN: Thank you. 372 00:21:11,313 --> 00:21:13,398 That's what time dilation is. 373 00:21:13,481 --> 00:21:15,025 And I don't want any letters. 374 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,321 MARGARET SPENCER: One of the biggest nuts to crack 375 00:21:19,487 --> 00:21:21,406 was why Buzz cares so much. 376 00:21:21,489 --> 00:21:23,533 Something that really helped us out was 377 00:21:23,616 --> 00:21:27,037 the creation of this character, Alisha, the partner, 378 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:29,873 somebody who we could track aging as he was staying the same. 379 00:21:30,915 --> 00:21:33,543 UZO ADUBA: Alisha is a dynamic... 380 00:21:33,626 --> 00:21:34,836 That's an order. 381 00:21:34,919 --> 00:21:36,463 ...capable leader. 382 00:21:36,546 --> 00:21:38,715 I'm gonna grant you four minutes to be off-planet, 383 00:21:38,798 --> 00:21:40,842 but then you come right back to us. 384 00:21:40,967 --> 00:21:43,803 Trying to advance and save the universe 385 00:21:43,887 --> 00:21:46,514 along with her friend, Buzz Lightyear. 386 00:21:46,848 --> 00:21:49,392 Okay, but maybe we should think about this. 387 00:21:49,476 --> 00:21:52,228 The great tragedy of it is 388 00:21:52,312 --> 00:21:56,524 because he was so focused and so consumed with the mission... 389 00:21:56,608 --> 00:21:59,694 -That's what Space Rangers do. -At what cost, Buzz? 390 00:21:59,778 --> 00:22:02,280 Are you willing to lose another four years? 391 00:22:02,906 --> 00:22:05,867 ...he missed all of her life. 392 00:22:08,078 --> 00:22:12,290 SUSMAN: What Alisha represents is the life well-lived, 393 00:22:12,791 --> 00:22:14,000 that he never had. 394 00:22:15,710 --> 00:22:17,212 Buzz Lightyear to the rescue. 395 00:22:18,380 --> 00:22:21,633 Buzz Lightyear, the character design is extraordinarily iconic. 396 00:22:22,258 --> 00:22:25,678 And I wanted to celebrate and get away from that design. 397 00:22:26,971 --> 00:22:30,350 SUSMAN: Trying to get the right balance 398 00:22:30,433 --> 00:22:35,397 of the Buzz people are expecting to see when they walk into the theater 399 00:22:36,773 --> 00:22:40,068 with enough new, different mystery... 400 00:22:40,610 --> 00:22:42,529 "I'm now the protagonist, 401 00:22:43,905 --> 00:22:45,824 "and have my own story and growth." 402 00:22:45,907 --> 00:22:49,035 That balance is really tricky. 403 00:22:50,078 --> 00:22:51,496 He will step out of the ship. 404 00:22:51,579 --> 00:22:54,541 And if you remember all the way back in Toy Story, 405 00:22:54,624 --> 00:22:56,751 when we first met Buzz, 406 00:22:56,835 --> 00:23:00,630 you pan up and you see his face, well, we have a shot very similar to that, 407 00:23:00,713 --> 00:23:03,675 to try to help get people into the, "Okay, this is Buzz"... 408 00:23:03,758 --> 00:23:05,969 I will explore further the oddities of this strange planet. 409 00:23:06,052 --> 00:23:07,679 This is kind of the Buzz we know, 410 00:23:07,762 --> 00:23:11,015 but this is not the Buzz we know. Because it's a different Buzz. 411 00:23:13,059 --> 00:23:15,145 And the stakes are even higher 412 00:23:15,228 --> 00:23:17,772 when you're taking a beloved character like Buzz Lightyear 413 00:23:17,856 --> 00:23:19,691 and you're reimagining him. 414 00:23:19,774 --> 00:23:24,446 There's somebody out there with a Buzz Lightyear tattoo on their arm. 415 00:23:24,529 --> 00:23:26,990 I don't want that person coming up to me later and be like, 416 00:23:27,073 --> 00:23:28,908 "Look, man, you ruined my childhood. 417 00:23:28,992 --> 00:23:30,452 "You ruined my arm." You know. 418 00:23:32,203 --> 00:23:34,706 SUSMAN: Character design starts from the Toy Story Buzz, 419 00:23:35,373 --> 00:23:39,752 but Toy Story Buzz has this ginormous chin. 420 00:23:40,420 --> 00:23:42,755 That's just not real. That's not human. 421 00:23:42,839 --> 00:23:44,549 Nobody has a chin that big. 422 00:23:44,632 --> 00:23:46,593 To get the Buzz Lightyear from the toy 423 00:23:46,676 --> 00:23:50,346 to now this actual human action hero, 424 00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:52,098 he becomes a Space Ranger. 425 00:23:52,182 --> 00:23:54,309 but we also see his heart grow. 426 00:23:56,769 --> 00:24:01,024 To tell that story, there had to be stakes and issues 427 00:24:01,107 --> 00:24:03,860 that a man would deal with and not a toy. 428 00:24:05,945 --> 00:24:09,657 When I design a character, it's usually an emotional reason first. 429 00:24:10,617 --> 00:24:14,996 Then later we can start talking about shape and why he did certain things. 430 00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:19,292 But as an artist, I can't say, "Oh, this is how we made him vulnerable." 431 00:24:20,043 --> 00:24:22,295 Somehow putting your heart into something, 432 00:24:22,378 --> 00:24:24,172 as humans, we just know that. 433 00:24:26,090 --> 00:24:27,759 That's very ethereal. 434 00:24:29,385 --> 00:24:31,638 DEAN HEEZEN: The art of caricature is all about pushing 435 00:24:31,721 --> 00:24:34,432 the shapes and certain features. 436 00:24:34,516 --> 00:24:37,810 Taking what's there in real life and emphasizing it. 437 00:24:38,603 --> 00:24:43,274 We were laughing 'cause when we tried the big chin, and the round eyes, 438 00:24:43,358 --> 00:24:45,318 and the severe brows, 439 00:24:45,401 --> 00:24:49,489 those proportions, it was hard not to make him look like a jerk. 440 00:24:50,698 --> 00:24:54,118 The biggest thing is, in our film Buzz has hair. 441 00:24:54,202 --> 00:24:57,664 NOLTE: We never saw Buzz Lightyear without his... They call it a snood, 442 00:24:57,747 --> 00:24:59,582 the purple thing he wears on his head. 443 00:24:59,666 --> 00:25:00,833 Thank goodness for Google. 444 00:25:00,917 --> 00:25:02,544 Snoods. I'm like, "What is that?" 445 00:25:02,627 --> 00:25:04,712 I look it up. "Okay, that's what that is." 446 00:25:05,630 --> 00:25:07,799 MACLANE: So he's got hair. We work with the hair. 447 00:25:07,882 --> 00:25:10,260 The hair was first. What's the hair gonna look like? 448 00:25:10,343 --> 00:25:12,720 His chin is pretty defining. Got to have the chin. 449 00:25:12,804 --> 00:25:15,473 He's got the little curly cue, which is like a dimple chin. 450 00:25:15,557 --> 00:25:16,891 He's got big, round eyes. 451 00:25:16,975 --> 00:25:19,811 How do you work them into the stylization of the world? 452 00:25:20,186 --> 00:25:22,522 He's got a barrel chest and narrow waist. 453 00:25:22,939 --> 00:25:25,775 NOLTE: What did he look like underneath the space suit? 454 00:25:26,526 --> 00:25:28,444 And that was an exploration too. 455 00:25:29,028 --> 00:25:31,614 Angus wanted him to feel a little bit more vulnerable, 456 00:25:31,698 --> 00:25:32,824 a little more relatable. 457 00:25:32,907 --> 00:25:34,158 I can't get out of this. 458 00:25:34,659 --> 00:25:38,454 So I can't get a sense of... I can't get any emotion out of it. 459 00:25:38,538 --> 00:25:40,540 Story-wise, it's about the birth of a hero, 460 00:25:40,623 --> 00:25:42,417 not a hero that became a bigger hero. 461 00:25:43,668 --> 00:25:47,755 I would start him off as John Glenn and turn him into Han Solo. 462 00:25:49,173 --> 00:25:52,802 The most difficult aspect is the head, and you're totally nailing that. 463 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:55,555 NOLTE: Once we got approved in art, 464 00:25:55,638 --> 00:25:59,142 that goes on into the character modeling rig department. 465 00:26:00,852 --> 00:26:02,854 Very, very, very collaborative discovery. 466 00:26:05,523 --> 00:26:09,819 We just pass it around like a football, always after the same goal of 467 00:26:09,902 --> 00:26:12,739 maintaining the appeal that was in the original art 468 00:26:12,822 --> 00:26:14,699 but discovering new problems. 469 00:26:15,825 --> 00:26:18,620 Just feeling a little harsh, right in there. 470 00:26:19,871 --> 00:26:22,790 We've got an established character that everyone knows and loves. 471 00:26:22,874 --> 00:26:27,962 It was up to us to go back and flesh out this whole world 472 00:26:28,046 --> 00:26:29,922 that we've never encountered. 473 00:26:30,006 --> 00:26:33,217 We've just got little bits and pieces of it through toy Buzz. 474 00:26:33,301 --> 00:26:38,097 So we had tried a lot of different callbacks and homages like Lunar Larry. 475 00:26:38,181 --> 00:26:40,850 That's where we get this sort of orangish red color. 476 00:26:41,934 --> 00:26:44,896 We made sure to call back to the original Buzz Lightyear suit, 477 00:26:44,979 --> 00:26:48,107 so we still have buttons on it. got the wing logo, 478 00:26:48,191 --> 00:26:50,318 the wrist communicator, all that stuff. 479 00:26:50,401 --> 00:26:52,779 The gear, you know. Angus loves the gear. 480 00:26:52,862 --> 00:26:54,197 He loves all the stuff. 481 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,366 We gave him lots of cool accessories. 482 00:26:58,576 --> 00:27:02,121 That he promptly loses immediately, 'cause that's what would really happen. 483 00:27:02,413 --> 00:27:04,290 ALEXANDER: Angus cares about everything. 484 00:27:04,374 --> 00:27:08,419 And when I say he cares about everything, literally everything. 485 00:27:10,213 --> 00:27:12,590 NOLTE: "Does that lever have some sort of ribbing on it 486 00:27:12,674 --> 00:27:15,510 "so your thumb would be able to slide it easy?" 487 00:27:15,593 --> 00:27:19,514 Whether it's how deep a panel line is or 488 00:27:19,597 --> 00:27:22,100 even belt buckles, lots of belt buckles. 489 00:27:29,899 --> 00:27:32,985 MACLANE: I arrive at a picture of the whole 490 00:27:33,069 --> 00:27:35,321 through a series of connected details. 491 00:27:36,864 --> 00:27:38,741 I really wanted things to be tactile. 492 00:27:38,825 --> 00:27:42,328 You should be able to feel like you can touch this thing. 493 00:27:42,412 --> 00:27:45,289 Buttons, switches. 494 00:27:45,373 --> 00:27:48,918 More just making a world that feels believable and lived in. 495 00:27:49,001 --> 00:27:51,462 That will allow the emotional story to come forward. 496 00:27:51,546 --> 00:27:55,049 You might also see that he's, through years of being an animator, 497 00:27:55,133 --> 00:27:58,469 is kind of obsessed with the performance of hands in the movie. 498 00:27:59,429 --> 00:28:01,180 I'd be curious if we could build the hands 499 00:28:01,264 --> 00:28:03,808 so that the index finger was aligned like that. 500 00:28:05,184 --> 00:28:08,813 Angus wants that hand to say exactly what a character is feeling. 501 00:28:15,528 --> 00:28:19,574 To him, a hand pose can signify how much power 502 00:28:19,657 --> 00:28:22,326 and strength a person has. 503 00:28:22,410 --> 00:28:24,579 Depending on how you pose the thumb, 504 00:28:24,662 --> 00:28:27,790 it can show whether that person is a strong character or not. 505 00:28:33,463 --> 00:28:34,672 MACLANE: I like toys a lot. 506 00:28:36,007 --> 00:28:37,759 I have strong opinions about them. 507 00:28:40,094 --> 00:28:43,556 And so for a lot of the big ships, I just built them out of LEGO bricks. 508 00:28:44,182 --> 00:28:45,892 I want something like this. 509 00:28:47,602 --> 00:28:50,438 GREGORY PELTZ: LEGO bricks are Angus' medium. 510 00:28:50,521 --> 00:28:52,607 He does all these awesome mockups. 511 00:28:52,690 --> 00:28:54,734 Here's how he sketched it out in LEGO bricks. 512 00:28:55,318 --> 00:28:56,819 And then I did my pass on it. 513 00:29:00,406 --> 00:29:05,912 This is the 15th ship Buzz uses to test this light speed fuel. 514 00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:09,999 PELTZ: It's a movie that's full of cool stuff to make toys out of, 515 00:29:10,082 --> 00:29:12,460 that was made by people who love toys. 516 00:29:12,877 --> 00:29:15,213 This is the best one. This is the best thing. 517 00:29:17,298 --> 00:29:20,843 And Angus remembers details on movies that are insane. 518 00:29:20,927 --> 00:29:23,346 He has an encyclopedic knowledge of cinema. 519 00:29:23,429 --> 00:29:26,140 Chased through a trolley graveyard. 520 00:29:26,224 --> 00:29:29,685 Little more Me, Myself and Irene, than Raising Arizona. 521 00:29:30,269 --> 00:29:31,896 Gandalf. "Fly, you fools." 522 00:29:31,979 --> 00:29:33,189 Indiana Jones. Scooby-Doo. 523 00:29:33,272 --> 00:29:34,524 Shawshank. Beautiful Mind-ing it. 524 00:29:34,607 --> 00:29:36,651 You need to Double Impact it a little bit. 525 00:29:36,734 --> 00:29:37,985 Like, he remembers... 526 00:29:39,028 --> 00:29:40,029 not just lines. 527 00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:42,198 No, Kaa from Jungle Book... 528 00:29:42,281 --> 00:29:43,324 HEADLEY: Sorry, I'll use his name 529 00:29:43,407 --> 00:29:45,409 ...that's a different animation cycle. That's like... 530 00:29:45,493 --> 00:29:49,080 HEADLEY: He remembers the timing of where roughly it happens in a movie. 531 00:29:49,163 --> 00:29:52,208 He's like, "I think it was at two minutes into the second act, 532 00:29:52,291 --> 00:29:54,585 "you'll see this happen and this musical cue." 533 00:29:54,669 --> 00:29:56,838 And you're like, "Wow, that's so specific." 534 00:29:56,921 --> 00:29:59,090 A million small details that you have to focus on, 535 00:29:59,173 --> 00:30:01,467 and you can make all of the elements awesome. 536 00:30:01,551 --> 00:30:04,303 And then when you watch the movie, it may not be awesome. 537 00:30:04,387 --> 00:30:06,389 There are a million things that can go wrong, 538 00:30:06,472 --> 00:30:07,765 and you won't even know. 539 00:30:07,849 --> 00:30:09,183 It's a crazy, crazy thing. 540 00:30:09,517 --> 00:30:11,310 It's wonderful and it's horrible. 541 00:30:11,644 --> 00:30:12,854 All directors go insane. 542 00:30:17,650 --> 00:30:21,320 The first thing I directed was a play when I was in kindergarten. 543 00:30:21,445 --> 00:30:25,324 And I have to say I may have obsessed a little bit too much about the costumes. 544 00:30:26,617 --> 00:30:30,288 Even though there weren't swords involved in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 545 00:30:30,371 --> 00:30:32,623 in my version, there were a lot of swords. 546 00:30:34,876 --> 00:30:39,630 Design and acting and performing and movies was just my thing. 547 00:30:42,383 --> 00:30:45,261 I was really obsessed with things. 548 00:30:47,513 --> 00:30:49,015 When I finally came to Pixar, 549 00:30:50,224 --> 00:30:51,225 I wasn't the only one. 550 00:30:52,602 --> 00:30:55,271 Buzz Lightyear to Star Command. Come in, Star Command. 551 00:31:10,620 --> 00:31:13,122 HEADLEY: I have a working theory on storytelling, 552 00:31:13,247 --> 00:31:15,333 and why we enjoy stories, is because 553 00:31:15,416 --> 00:31:18,586 primarily we're dumb and we can't remember things. 554 00:31:18,669 --> 00:31:23,299 And so we need to have the same lessons taught to us over and over again, 555 00:31:23,799 --> 00:31:25,384 so that we remember to be decent, 556 00:31:25,468 --> 00:31:28,304 and we remember that we're a part of a community. 557 00:31:29,972 --> 00:31:34,018 And it's certainly a way that I learn and carry things with me through life. 558 00:31:35,061 --> 00:31:37,939 SUSMAN: I was always driven by making a picture. 559 00:31:38,230 --> 00:31:41,943 But there was something about the collaboration of different skills 560 00:31:42,026 --> 00:31:46,572 that come together when you do a film that was just so much more 561 00:31:46,656 --> 00:31:49,700 rewarding and entertaining, 562 00:31:49,784 --> 00:31:53,579 and I could see doing that every day for the rest of my life. 563 00:31:54,580 --> 00:31:56,666 When you've worked at Pixar for 10 years, 564 00:31:56,749 --> 00:32:01,337 you get a really cool bronze statue of Buzz Lightyear. 565 00:32:03,881 --> 00:32:08,135 PETE: Buzz represents a certain amount of tradition, 566 00:32:08,219 --> 00:32:09,971 but he's also kind of the new guy. 567 00:32:11,305 --> 00:32:13,849 There's something so aspirational about Buzz. 568 00:32:15,476 --> 00:32:19,230 If you want to acknowledge a decade spent 569 00:32:19,313 --> 00:32:23,150 and at the same time say, "To infinity and beyond," 570 00:32:23,234 --> 00:32:25,277 you've got lots more to do together, 571 00:32:25,361 --> 00:32:27,613 what better character than Buzz? 572 00:32:41,836 --> 00:32:43,504 EVANS: Gonna say it like the classic, 573 00:32:43,587 --> 00:32:44,964 -"To infinity..." -EVANS: Sure. 574 00:32:45,297 --> 00:32:47,508 To infinity and beyond! 575 00:32:52,555 --> 00:32:54,140 No one can touch Tim Allen, really. 576 00:33:00,479 --> 00:33:02,732 Question. Are we saying... Because as a... 577 00:33:02,815 --> 00:33:05,526 Just so we're clear about it, now is an admission section. 578 00:33:05,609 --> 00:33:06,819 As a Toy Story fan... 579 00:33:12,825 --> 00:33:16,704 Are we saying it like the way Buzz... 580 00:33:16,871 --> 00:33:17,997 Okay. Copy. 581 00:33:23,169 --> 00:33:24,336 "To infinity..." 582 00:33:26,797 --> 00:33:29,175 Sorry. I'm so sorry. 583 00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,845 I'm excited. That was just a good one. 584 00:33:32,970 --> 00:33:34,597 (LAUGHS) 585 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,683 Sorry. I couldn't even continue. I was like... 586 00:33:45,733 --> 00:33:47,026 Oh, my gosh. 587 00:33:54,158 --> 00:33:55,367 It's crazy. 588 00:34:02,875 --> 00:34:05,836 I sort of come out wild. OMG.