<P> Afterward, the animators would compile the scenes, and develop a new storyboard with the computer - animated characters . They then added shading, lighting, visual effects, and finally used 300 computer processors to render the film to its final design . Under Tom Porter, the shading team used RenderMan's shader language to create shader programs for each of a model's surfaces . A few surfaces in Toy Story came from real objects: a shader for the curtain fabric in Andy's room used a scan of actual cloth . Under Galyn Susman and Sharon Calahan, the lighting team orchestrated the final lighting of the shot after animation and shading . Each completed shot then went into rendering on a "render farm" of 117 Sun Microsystems computers that ran 24 hours a day . Finished animation emerged in a steady drip of around three minutes a week . Depending on its complexity, each frame took from 45 minutes up to 30 hours to render . The film required 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 frames of animation in total . There are over 77 minutes of animation spread across 1,561 shots . A camera team, aided by David DiFrancesco, recorded the frames onto film stock . To fit a 1.85: 1 aspect ratio, Toy Story was rendered at a mere 1,536 by 922 pixels, with each of them corresponding to roughly a quarter - inch of screen area on a typical cinema screen . During post-production, the film was sent to Skywalker Sound, where the sound effects were mixed with the music score . </P> <P> Disney was concerned with Lasseter's position on the use of music . Unlike other Disney films of the time, Lasseter did not want the film to be a musical, saying it was a buddy film featuring "real toys ." Joss Whedon agreed, saying, "It would have been a really bad musical, because it's a buddy movie . It's about people who won't admit what they want, much less sing about it...Buddy movies are about sublimating, punching an arm,' I hate you .' It's not about open emotion ." However, Disney favored the musical format, claiming "Musicals are our orientation . Characters breaking into song is a great shorthand . It takes some of the onus off what they're asking for ." Disney and Pixar reached a compromise: the characters in Toy Story would not break into song, but the film would use non-diegetic songs over the action, as in The Graduate, to convey and amplify the emotions that Buzz and Woody were feeling . Disney and Lasseter tapped Randy Newman to compose the film . The edited Toy Story was due to Newman and Gary Rydstrom in late September 1995 for their final work on the score and sound design, respectively . </P> <P> Lasseter said, "His songs are touching, witty, and satirical, and he would deliver the emotional underpinning for every scene ." Newman wrote three original songs for the film; developing the film's signature song "You've Got a Friend in Me" in one day . The soundtrack for Toy Story was produced by Walt Disney Records and was released on November 22, 1995, the week of the film's release . </P> <P> It was difficult for crew members to perceive the film's quality during much of the production process when the finished footage was in scattered pieces and lacked elements like music and sound design . Some animators felt the film would be a significant disappointment commercially, but felt animators and animation fans would find it interesting . According to Lee Unkrich, one of the original editors of Toy Story, a scene was cut out of the original final edit . The scene features Sid, after Pizza Planet, torturing Buzz and Woody violently . Unkrich decided to cut right into the scene where Sid is interrogating the toys because the creators of the movie thought the audience would be loving Buzz and Woody at that point . Another scene, where Woody was trying to get Buzz's attention when he was stuck in the box crate, was shortened because the creators felt it would lose the energy of the movie . Peter Schneider had grown optimistic about the film as it neared completion, and announced a United States release date of November, coinciding with Thanksgiving weekend and the start of the winter holiday season . </P>

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