Pixar seemed to continue to repeat themselves with the formula following the release of Toy Story 2.
They’re not just ants but also a ladybug, walking stick, moth, rhinoceros beetle, praying mantis, caterpillar, pillbugs, grasshoppers, and more. In 1988, everyone was talking about its competition with DreamWorks Animation’s Antz because both are computer-animated features involving insects, but A Bug’s Life is distinct in being more diverse in the characters’ species. Pixar’s next feature, A Bug’s Life, also features a varied ensemble of anthropomorphized non-human characters grouped together under an easy classification. It’d been done before with The Brave Little Toaster, but Toy Story popularized it. What Toy Story did was give these sentient toys more individual anthropomorphized personality and involve them in a communal habitation. The film’s subject matter - sentient toys - wasn’t a totally original concept not only did Pixar have its own early film about a living toy, the Oscar-winning 1988 short Tin Toy, but the idea goes back to very early animation, including Disney’s Midnight in a Toy Shop, and even before that with the Nutcracker and Winnie the Pooh stories, Hans Christian Andersen’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier, and more.
While Snow White ushered in the custom for animated features to predominantly deal in fairytales and princesses for decades, primarily from Disney, Toy Story also became a trendsetter. Toy Story also pioneered a kind of animated story.
Traditionally animated (2D) movies continued to exist, but soon enough other studios were producing or partnering with producers of computer-animated features, which became the norm for Hollywood. The movie, produced by Pixar Studios, was the first fully computer-animated feature, marking it as the biggest thing for the medium of animation since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. When Disney released Toy Story on November 22, 1995, the world of animated cinema was changed forever.
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