All of these sets are very much unique characters."Ģ3. Both new sets are intended to make Woody feel "lost and out of place." Ling Tu, who leads the set shading team, said, "This is a story about Woody getting out of his comfort zone and expanding his world. The other main set is a local carnival, with a carousel fully engineered to function with all of the cogs you would find inside a real carousel.
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A Gabby Gabby Let's Be Friends rhyming picture book meant to accompany the fictional doll was actually written and on display in the gallery, while the graphics team generated a detailed manual about how her voice box works that will never appear onscreen.Ģ2.
(Above.) She was also conceived as a blonde and appears as such in much of the concept art, though the hair color was changed to red because rendering and animating blonde hair are more expensive.ġ8. In the gallery, there are a number of other versions of the Gabby Gabby doll, including one that looks like the Frozen dolls you can buy at the Disney store. "She wants to be with a kid, so by staying in a pristine state, even though it's been 50 or 60 years for her, she thinks that will help her get adopted by a kid."ġ7. "Her goal is to get out," Alex Marino, who led the characters shading team, said. The antagonist of Toy Story 4 is Gabby Gabby (voiced by Christina Hendricks), a 1957 pull-string doll who Woody encounters in an antique store and who takes a keen interest in his voice box. "We let our imaginations go crazy with possibilities." A piece of concept art showed homeless Bo dragging her lamp behind her, attempting to keep her sheep dry from the rain.ġ6. Where would she end up? Thrift stores? On the street? Who knows," LaPointe said of Bo Peep's journey from part of an appliance to a lost toy. "She's a baby's lamp, she was given away. (But yes, the team did come up with specific anecdotes on how Bo would have lost an arm.)ġ2. "We kind of did that with Sid in the first movie," story supervisor Valerie LaPointe said. Another piece of art had Bo sporting a hairy, tattooed arm, which a scribbled note that says "From Bo's Ex." Ultimately, the team didn't want to go so post-apocalyptic. Cooley contributed his own sketch showing Bo Peep with a replacement monster arm and an armored leg. Another is more hippie-like, wearing a flower crown.ġ1. One of the upstairs hallways of Pixar has been converted into a gallery of Toy Story 4 concept art, much of which is focused on drastically different designs for the shepherdess: One is Bo with a robot arm affixed by Band-Aids. Bo Peep is the true driving force in Woody's story and a main character in her own right. "She's a character who is tired of sitting on a shelf and waiting for life to happen," story artist Carrie Hobson said.ġ0. That's where Woody is reunited with Bo Peep, who last appeared in Toy Story 2 and returns living happily as a lost toy. Woody, Forky and the gang hit the road with Bonnie's family for a road trip far beyond Tri-County Area. "I ended up going to a pizza joint, buying a pizza and then taking some of the utensils."ĩ. Also, "It was a little hard to find sporks," said Claudio de Oliveira, who made his own Forkys to play with in the real world while animating him onscreen. Forky's design may look deceptively simple, but there are in the ballpark of 493,000 animated bristles on his pipe cleaner arms alone. The Pixar team explored various designs for Forky in "Sporkshops," where they made versions using glitter and feathers and stickers, but the final design - complete with googly eyes and pipe cleaner arms - is true to a marker drawing by John Lasseter labeled "Mr. Toy Story 4 also introduces Forky (voiced by Tony Hale), who is Bonnie's kindergarten arts and crafts project come to life.