 Lasseter was embarrassed with what was on the screen , later recalling , " It was a story filled with the most unhappy , mean characters that I 've ever seen . " He asked Disney for the chance to retreat back to Pixar and rework the script in two weeks , and Katzenberg was supportive . Lasseter , Stanton , Docter and Ranft delivered the news of the production shutdown to the production crew , many of whom had left other jobs to work on the project . In the meantime , the crew would shift to television commercials while the head writers worked out a new script . Although Lasseter kept morale high by remaining outwardly buoyant , the production shutdown was " a very scary time , " recalled story department manager BZ Petroff . Schneider had initially wanted to shutdown production altogether and fire all recently hired animators . Katzenberg put the film under the wing of Walt Disney Feature Animation . The Pixar team was pleased that the move would give them an open door to counsel from Disney 's animation veterans . Schneider , however , continued to take a dim view of the project and would later go over Katzenberg 's head to urge Eisner to cancel it . Stanton retreated into a small , dark , windowless office , emerging periodically with new script pages . He and the other story artists would then draw the shots on storyboards . Whedon came back to Pixar for part of the shutdown to help with revising , and the script was revised in two weeks as promised . When Katzenberg and Schneider halted production on Toy Story , Steve Jobs kept the work going with his own personal funding . Jobs did not insert himself much into the creative process , respecting the artists at Pixar and instead managing the relationship with Disney . 
