The trailer established that the film was not aiming at a children's audience the way that existing computer-animated features were at the time.
Anything but dull and ordinary, this computer-animated feature has a clean and vibrant visual style and is organized around a strong, fascinating idea.
Catmull and fellow Pixar co-founder Alvy Ray Smith had long wanted to produce a computer-animated feature.
"TOY STORY" - The first completely computer-animated feature; will anybody care?
Next year followed Flushed Away, Aardman's first computer-animated feature.
Even computer-animated features meant for tots smuggle in their "edgy" points about the savagery of childhood or the tensions of trolldom.
Lasseter had found that the workday of a sole-director on a computer-animated feature was dangerous while working on Toy Story.
Pixar's newest brightly colored, computer-animated feature is about Monsters, Inc., a company that sends kids screaming into their parents' bedrooms.
Bloopers were even created for the credits of the computer-animated 1998 feature "A Bug's Life," from Pixar Studios, in keeping with the film's gags and visual playfulness.
In 1995, Disney partnered with Pixar to create Toy Story, the first fully computer-animated feature.