The original Toy Story contains 114,240 frames of animation.
That figure comes from the production account of Pixar’s 1995 feature, the first fully computer-animated theatrical film. The frames were distributed across 1,561 shots and represented more than 77 minutes of finished animation. Pixar’s computers required about 800,000 machine hours to render the movie, and the studio could produce fewer than 30 seconds of final film per day.
The number also illustrates why Toy Story was a landmark rather than simply a conventional animated movie made with different tools. Every frame required digital modeling, lighting, shading, camera work, rendering, and compositing. Pixar had to build a believable world from geometric objects while preserving the expressive performances of characters such as Woody, Buzz, and Andy.
The figure is sometimes confused with a frame-rate calculation. At 24 frames per second, 77 minutes would equal about 110,880 frames, but the reported production total is 114,240; the difference reflects the precise footage and production accounting used for the film. The quiz’s stored number matches Pixar’s documented total.