Disney's announced layoffs extended to Pixar on Saturday, and among the 75 staffers released was Galyn Susman, known to Disney fans as the woman who saved the 1999 hit “Toy Story 2.”
Who laid off the Pixar employee who saved Toy Story 2?
Galyn Susman -- the longtime Disney producer who's credited with saving "Toy Story 2" -- just got the boot alongside several other Pixar employees ... and fans are pissed. The news came down Saturday from Reuters, which reported Susman was one of 75 Pixar workers who recently gotten the axe in mass layoffs.
Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull wrote in his book Creativity Inc. that disaster struck the production of Toy Story 2 when an unnamed employee was doing a routine spot of server cleaning when they accidentally put in a command to delete the root file for the movie.
Pixar producer Gayln Susman is best knowing for saving Toy Story 2 back in 1998 after another employee accidentally deleted most of the film's files when hitting a wrong command. The then technical-director thankfully had a backup copy of the film at her house after she was working from home whilst on maternity leave.
According to him, some poor, thankfully unnamed, soul at Pixar was in the internal file servers doing some standard file clearance, when they mistakenly put in a deletion command on the root folder for the film.
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That round of layoffs included Lightyear director Angus MacLane and Galyn Susman, the lighting supervisor who became known for saving Toy Story 2 after it was accidentially deleted off of Disney's servers.
Back in 1998, when “Toy Story 2″ was in production, all work up to that point was lost because of an erroneous deletion command executed on Pixar's servers, The New Web reported. Susman was on maternity leave, working from home, and had a backup copy of the film on her personal computer, according to Gizmondo.
Woody and Buzz help Lotso reach an emergency stop button, but Lotso abandons them and flees. As Woody and his friends accept their impending fate, Andy's Aliens rescue them with the landfill's industrial claw.
Galyn Susman, who originally worked as a lighting supervisor on Toy Story and became known for saving Toy Story 2 after it was accidentally deleted from Disney's servers, was one of the several employees laid-off.
Some were quick to notice that the new edition of the film is missing a small scene at the end. In the gag reel at the end of the 1999 movie, Woody catches the movie's antagonist, the prospector Stinky Pete (voiced by Kelsey Grammer), getting chummy with two younger dolls in his figurine box.
Climatic Moment: Buzz and Bullseye catch Woody and Jessie when they jump from the plane's landing gear. Resolution: Everyone returns to Andy's room, where Andy is delighted by his new toys—and Woody makes peace with the fact that Andy must someday grow up.
This took place in 1998, with Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull recounting the tale in his book Creativity, Inc. The story goes that an unnamed Pixar employee was doing some routine file clearance on internal servers when they accidentally entered a deletion command on Toy Story 2's root folder.
Hollywood, California, U.S. Lasseter began his career as an animator with The Walt Disney Company. After being fired from Disney for promoting computer animation, he joined Lucasfilm, where he worked on then-groundbreaking usage of CGI animation.
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Pixar met with Disney, telling them that the film would have to be redone. Disney disagreed, and noted that Pixar did not have enough time to remake the film before its established release date.
