Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson discusses Pixar’s Toy Story on the Fantasy/Animation podcast

The Fantasy/Animation podcast invited Dr Lucy Fife Donaldson to be a guest on their new episode discussing the 1995 Pixar film, Toy Story. Topics discussed in this episode include Toy Story's digital surfaces and textures, and the vocabulary that is needed to talk about the fine and peripheral detail; animation as a space of inescapable and intensified design; the contribution of everyday textures to the film's construction of worldhood; the plasticity of character and the miniaturisation (and magnification) of texture; and how Toy Story's sense of 'play' is articulated via the careful and highly reflexive attention paid to scuffs, surfaces, and scale.

The conversation draws on Dr Donaldson's research on texture in the film, published in the edited collection Toy Story: How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature (Bloomsbury, 2018).

The Fantasy/Animation podcast is hosted by Dr Chris Holliday (KCL) and Dr Alex Sargent (Portsmouth) and was featured on Feedspot's 25 Best London Education podcasts.