Toy Story Meets The Shining in “Toy Shining” Paintings

Is Pixar working on a Toy Story version of The Shining? Unfortunately not, but Kyle Lambert envisions a world where Woody head to the Overlook Hotel in his series of Toy Shining digital paintings:

"Earlier this year I began following Lee Unkrich, the director of Toy Story 3) on Twitter (@leeunkrich). As well as his journey to the Oscars with Toy Story 3, Lee often tweets about his passion for Stanley Kubrick and the movie The Shining which inspired him to pursue a career in filmmaking. Having seen both The Shining and Toy Story 3 for the first time recently myself, I thought it would be cool idea to mash the two movies together as a fun side project.

It started off with a few notes on a post-it describing how the two movies could be combined and quickly grew into a 25 panel storyboard. Once I had sketched each composition I set about painting the panels with my iPad using the Brushes app. The project took around 2 months to complete in my spare time from idea to the finished storyboard.

Coincidently, towards the end of the project I was invited to visit the Pixar Studio for the day by one of their artists Don Shank and thought it would be a great opportunity to deliver a printed version of the project to Lee in person. Unfortunatley he wasn't at the studio that day, but has since recieved the poster, Tweeting... 'Toy Story/The Shining mash-up, painted on an iPad. Incredible gift from @kylelambert. So much awesomeness. http://twitpic.com/4zeil6 ' "

To see the full set of images and more artwork from Kyle, visit:

• http://kylelambert.co.uk/gallery/toy-shining/