Getting a given character to move starts in Pixar's rigging and modeling department. Mara MacMahon: Whenever you're thinking of a character model before it's rigged, it's in a completely neutral pose.

A cutesy Pixar-style animation ... production phase because the models still spit out unworkable and weird outputs. Still, if you compare the viral Pixar-style animation video to AI animation ...

Narrator: If you've seen "Toy Story 4," you've probably noticed that Pixar's animation ... three-dimensional space. Modeling artists take the basic shapes of the characters, sets, and props ...