While he was working on “Mickey's Christmas Carol”, another movie titled “Tron” was under development in Disney. John happened to watch some of the early tests and was excited, not for the quality of the stuff but for the 3d feeling it generated. He found tremendous possibilities with the use of computers and knew it was the future. Lasseter wanted to create a 3d world where the 2d characters could move around. Together with Disney animator Glen Keane and Tom Wilhite, Head of the Production, he made a 30 second test film titled “Where the Wild Things Are”, where they combined the hand drawn images that Glen did with a computer generated background. They moved the camera like a steady cam shot for the first time in animation, following the animated character in and around objects.
Check out this amazing test, which combined traditional hand-drawn, 2D animation with then-state-of-the-art 3D computer animation!
"Their next dream was to make a feature in this fashion and they selected the story of “The Brave Little Toaster", by Thomas Disch. Lasseter made contacts with people in the Computer Graphics Industry which included Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith of Lucas Film Computer Graphics Group. Lasseter started his works to make the dream true. But things went wrong when he unknowingly upset a few superiors in his effort to pace their dream project. When Lasseter presented the idea it was turned down and in a few minutes time he got the information that he was fired from the company.
But the man joined Lucas Film with Ed Catmul and Alvy Ray Smith to create the first complete 3d animated short "The Adventures of Andre and Wally Bee".It was followed by other shorts like Luxo Junior, Red's dream, Tin Toy and Knick Knack before moving to make his dream of making a fully 3d animated feature true."
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