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We could show him what was easy for us to do and what was hard for us to do,
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and he'd also push us.
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We'd say, "Well, you know, John, it's kind of hard for us to do a human."
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Then first thing you'd know, he'd be thinking about human stuff he'd wanna do
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and he'd encourage us to try to do it.
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Tin Toy, about a wind-up toy tormented by a baby,
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brought children's toys to life through the computer.
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And in 1989, Bill Reeves and John Lasseter
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took home their first Oscars for Best Animated Short Subject,
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and the first ever awarded to a computer-animated film.
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With each subsequent short film, John got more ambitious
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and the team got more experience and the software got better.