And we have never done complicated spacesuits like this before at Pixar. There’s life support, there’s lots of structure underneath that we don’t even get to see.

“You’ve got to get them right for the story, because a spacesuit is designed to be a mini spaceship if anything goes wrong,” Kalal tells Polygon.

Kalal and her team not only designed the intricate spacesuits for the movie’s setting, but also made sure that they worked with the physics.

They are, after all, integral parts of any space adventure. At NASA, they talked to actual astronauts and took extensive pictures of all the gadgets and gizmos involved in space exploration.įran Kalal, the tailoring and simulation supervisor on Lightyear, ended up closely studying real-world spacesuits. To craft his space epic, the creative team at Pixar went to the closest thing we have to real-life Space Rangers. Buzz desperately tries to fix the ship and get himself off the planet, which means he goes on various expeditions into space. The movie follows Space Ranger Buzz Lightyear (voiced by Chris Evans) - the sci-fi movie character, not the toy - as he accidentally maroons himself and a whole ship of rangers on a barren planet. Pixar’s Lightyear isn’t another installment in the Toy Story movie series it’s meant as a gritty science fiction adventure.

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