multiple times you've used toys as an analogy for people's relationship to God... so what do you think of Toy Story?
It’s true! I have! Mostly because I couldn’t think of a better second analogy.
I love Toy Story. I think you’d have to be the kind of person who likes to walk through kitchen puddles wearing socks and pours milk in before the cereal not to love Toy Story.
I don’t think any of those theories where Andy is supposed to represent god, or whatever, are correct. I think very simply the Toy Story movies are about being selfless. Living your life and finding your purpose in how you can love others with your whole self.
In the first movie Woody loves Andy the way Oural loves Psyche in C. S. Lewis’ “Til We Have Faces:” he loves Andy, but what really matters to Woody is how much love and adoration Andy can show him. When Buzz threatens that, Woody shows his true colors. Then he realizes that real love is sacrifice, and that’s what a toy is; something made for the enjoyment of others. And in having to teach that to Buzz, when Buzz is disappointed in being a toy, makes Woody remember what his purpose really is; and it’s selfless love. Whether Andy wants him or not.
Then in the second movie that’s tested again; Andy really might not love Woody anymore, or even get any use out of him. And Woody is faced with an alternative; he could go through life being self-protective, instead of self-sacrificing. But then he realizes that’s no way to live; he’d rather be there, present, for Andy and all his toy friends, even if it’s just to watch and love them from a shelf.
He’s holding fast to that in the third movie. The whole time. But then eventually it’s Andy, the person who loves Woody, who lets Woody go. And in that way, (even though it’s not quite a 1-to-1 analogy because he doesn’t know Woody is alive) Andy finally gives Woody back that unselfish love—here, go to someone who will play with you and need you. I don’t have to be your be-all-end-all anymore. And Woody goes back for his friends, as usual, and sticks with them even when he’s not the leader of the room anymore.
It’s an incredibly good movie series. Not Toy Story 4. But the rest of the series.
Here's another round of color palettes! This time featuring some characters I've never drawn before outside of Zurg and Nos lol but I still had fun! I've been dying to draw Sally and Fop Doppler but I just haven't until now, and I have my friends to thank for suggesting obscure characters like a background Grounder Lady and one of the Valkyrans.