IP: Toy Story stats

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Date: 22 Dec 1995 11:02:12 EST
From: capek () watson ibm com (Peter Capek)


I can't vouch for the following, but believe it to be reliable
(except that the stock price is 23-3/4 as I write this..)




From: sandrof () microsoft com (Alessandro Forin)






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Number of terabytes required to store all film information: 1
Minutes of completed animation produced each week: 3.5 (maximum)
Months it took to write the shader for Andy's hair: 9 (it took the longest)
"Built-in" lights on Buzz: 10
Least number of minutes required to render a frame of film: 45
Most number of hours required to render a frame of film: 20
Number of characters: 76
Minutes of computer animation: 77
Number of Suns in Pixar's Renderfarm operating on a 24-hour basis: 110
Texture maps for Buzz: 189 (plus an additional 450 to show scuffs and dirt)
Gigabytes required to store final frames: 500
Number of avars (variables which an animator can control) for Buzz: 700
Number of avars for Woody: 712
Number of avars for Woody's face: 212
Number of avars for Woody's mouth: 58
Number of avars for Sid's backpack: 128
Number of leaves on the trees in Andy's neighborhood: 1.2 million
Number of shaders written for the production: 1300
Final number of shots in film: 1561
Number of frames of computer animation in film: 110,064
Number of texture maps created for the film: 2000 (most are painted
  digitally, but some are photographed and scanned.  The carpet in Sid's
  house was taken from "The Shining.")
Number of storyboards drawn: 25,000
Number of lines in model program required to describe Buzz: 34,864
Number of lines in model program required to describe Woody: 52,865
Number of machine hours required to render frames: 800,000
Number of lines of code needed to create the film's models: 4.5 million
Box office total for Toy Story for the 5-day holiday weekend ending Nov 26:
  $39.1 million
Opening price of Pixar at its IPO on Wednesday: $22 (traded on NASDAQ under
  symbol PIXR)
Current price: $40.25
Value of Steve Jobs' shares: $1,204,280,000