The screenwriter generously shares lessons learned while working on the beloved film.
Screenwriter Michael Arndt “put this lecture together in 2011, just before I left Pixar. It looks at all the mistakes we made while writing Toy Story 3, and the lessons learned in correcting those mistakes”:
A playlist of storyboards for deleted scenes and test animations from Toy Story 3:
Further Viewing
What might have been: Billy Crystal tells the story of how he turned down an offer to play Buzz Lightyear in the first Toy Story (1995, via Graham Norton / BBC)…
… and only after signing on to play Mike in Monsters, Inc (2001) seeing the animation test Pixar made of Buzz performing some of Billy’s dialogue from When Harry Met Sally… (1989):
Michael Arndt examines Star Wars (1977), The Graduate (1967), and his own work on Little Miss Sunshine (2006), in this 90-minute masterclass on script structure: