Blog: The Sly Oyster

Disney used to hold the rights for Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are and in 1983 they had a young man by the name of John Lasseter , interested in using computers to render 3D backgrounds. Lasseter created some short animations based on the book as a test for another project he had in mind - The Brave Little Toaster . Neither project ended up manifesting itself, with the Toaster being made in traditional 2D animation. For his efforts, Lasseter was fired by Disney because his superiors felt he [...]