

Babies are hardly monster-like, unless you're a toy. After escaping a drooling baby, Tinny realizes that he wants to be played with after all. But in the amount of time it takes him to discover this, the baby's attention moves on to other things only an infant could find interesting.
Visual Effects
Groundbreaking 1988 CGI that still impresses.
Direction
Lasseter's storytelling economy in 5 minutes.
Sound
That baby giggle still haunts toys everywhere.

Director
John Lasseter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Pixar's first Oscar win (1989), beating out a Disney short—imagine the awkward company picnic.
The 'uncanny valley' baby was so technically ambitious that rendering just his face took months; animators studied actual infants until they probably needed therapy.
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