Toy Story only used toys because 3D modelling couldn't yet do humans in a way that didn't make your eyes bleed. All phong lighting and low poly counts that aren't half bad at representing plastic, so if you want your characters to not look like shit, say that they're toys and build around that.
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Toy Story only used toys because 3D modelling couldn't yet do humans in a way that didn't make your eyes bleed. All phong lighting and low poly counts that aren't half bad at representing plastic, so if you want your characters to not look like shit, say that they're toys and build around that.
Interesting! I don't know the first thing about animation and video production