In Toy Story, the animators chose certain color schemes to create contrast between characters. In the first picture, Rex, a dinosaur, is a primarily green hue but plays with darker shades to give his skin a scaly texture. Pig is completely pink, a tint of red hue. Mister Potato Head on the right has a brown body but his accessories are all very saturated colors. In the second picture, Woody has a light colored skin but pure brown hair as well as his hat. His clothes are duller colors of yellow and red but his vest contrasts with black and white. Little Bo Peep has fair skin but has the pureness of pinks on her dress and yellows in her hair. These bright hues help relate these characters as toys to children and are visibility separated from other elements of each scene. It is apparent to me that the deeper you go in the scene in each of these pictures the colors get duller which shifts the focus to the foreground and the bright characters. Other toys in the scene also follow the set rule of bright hues.
Each scene in these pictures has excellent lighting techniques. In the first picture the characters are back lit from it appears to be a lamp on the table. It gives the characters a warm highlight around them which separates them from the background. It gives a nice late afternoon or early evening mood to the scene which in my opinion is laid-back and relaxed and this definitely contrasts with Mr. Potato Head's attitude. In the second picture both Woody and Little Bo Peep are well lit but the background is under exposed. There is also a blue tinted back light on these subjects. Both of these lighting elements help the audience's eye go right to the characters and the action in the scene. The light bounces of the material of the characters giving them a plastic appearance which is really important in a movie about toys. I think that the primary purpose of light in both of these scenes is to give the characters texture and bring them out from the background.
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