‘That’s when we first noticed it, with Woody,’ recalls Oren Jacob. In 1998, Associate Technical Director Oren Jacob was working with Larry Cutler and Larry Aupperle when they began to notice elements of Woody’s outfit disappearing. Today, we are looking at the story of Toy Story 2 and how it was saved from 90 percent deletion. Little did this poor animator know that the hasty command entered into the system would result in an avalanche of errors that would nearly bring Pixar to its knees. In 1998, less than a year before the slated release date of Toy Story 2 an animator working on the film entered a command to delete files into the Unix-based, shared-network project system, intending to run a routine file cleanup. I recently stumbled across a story from the history of film from YouTuber Austin McConnell that I had never heard before. Proper data protection during production is critical, and Pixar almost learned this the hard way with Toy Story 2.
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