“Then very quickly on the heels of that decision, we thought well, if we have Barbie, we had to have Ken,” he said. Unkrich was interested in having her be a part of the new film. Since he liked the appearance of Barbie in “Toy Story 2,” Mr. Pauley added, “It’s awesome having any character with lederhosen, period.” “We just tried to keep him really cute and tried to have him feel like kind of a higher-end European stuffed animal,” Mr.

One of the film’s story artists, Matthew Luhn, suggested the character be a hedgehog wearing lederhosen. “What we came up with was this idea of a group of toys as kind of a theater troupe.” The leader of that troupe is a Shakespearean thespian named Mr. Unkrich wanted to give them a group personality. This film introduces the toys found in the bedroom of one of Andy’s young neighbors, who attends the day-care center, and Mr. He’s just very neutral.”įor “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2” the filmmakers envisioned Andy’s toys as a group of office co-workers who saw Andy as their boss. “We designed him to be kind of as blank-faced as possible,” Mr. He scanned the doodles into the computer, and the design team mapped them all over Big Baby to create pen tattoos. Unkrich found old doodles made by one of his daughters. They’ve just gotten worn, carried around, dragged around.” The baby dolls often have eyes that roll forward, and sometimes even jam up, he added, so they gave the character a droopy eye. “And many of them have pen marks soaked into the vinyl of their skin. “If you go to any day-care center, you see lots of toys, but what you see consistently are these baby dolls,” Mr. One of the rougher new characters is Big Baby, a doll who has seen his fair share of wear and tear.

Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures “Daniel Arriaga, who designed Lotso, had these drawings with this big nose, and it just connected with us, and we thought that feels different and kind of sweet.” But the defining characteristic was Lotso’s nose.

That involved trips to toy stores and toy collectors to research teddy bears and try to understand how they moved. “We wanted our teddy bear to stand out, but we wanted him to be very believable,” Mr. Lotso was the first plush toy the filmmakers designed on their own for the franchise. “When he showed up in the film, I wanted him to be the most disarmingly gregarious, down-to-earth, warm, grandfatherly kind of a guy imaginable,” Mr. But the character, voiced by Ned Beatty, may not always be as sweet as he seems. He welcomes Woody and the old toys to the Sunnyside day-care center with open arms. The most jolly and larger-than-life new character is a pink, stuffed, strawberry-scented Lots-o-Huggin’ Bear, or Lotso.

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