NARRATOR:
Few people outside the movie business know about color scripts like the ones on this wall. Made early on, they serve as an important reference over the years it takes to complete a film.
The color scripts at the right here, by art director Ralph Eggleston, were for Toy Story. They start at the top, and read across from left to right.
Toy Story won a Special Academy Award in 1996 as the first feature length computer animated film. John Lasseter, who directed it, had never seen a color script before.
JOHN LASSETER: Ralph went through the whole script and he made small pastel drawings of each scene, and concentrated on the basic color. And it was so exciting, because I could see how the colors got more intense when the emotions were more intense, and when things got somber, it got very muted, and I was so blown away by this, and it influenced the way the whole film looked. And from that point on, for each of our movies, we created color scripts. Besides, they're really cool-looking, too.
RALPH EGGLESTON: That was a very proud moment in my career, to see John's reaction to this.
NARRATOR:
You can find one key emotional moment all the way to the left, in the fourth row down. It’s a blue image of dawn seen through a window signals a moment of hope and sadness for the key characters, the toys Buzz and Woody. Though they may soon be destroyed by the evil kid, Sid, they have finally become friends. Richard Brooks’ film In Cold Blood gave Ralph the idea for the raindrops on the windowpane.
