With audiences streaming billions of hours each year, animation has become one of the most influential cultural exports on...

Three decades later, “Toy Story” remains a touchstone not only for its technical brilliance, but for what it says about childhood, creativity, and growing up.

You wouldn’t know it by looking at Pixar‘s track record. Since “Toy Story’s” debut as the first computer-animated feature in 1995, the Emeryville, Calif.-based studio has racked up four animated ...