A colorscript is a sequence of small pastel drawings or paintings used to emphasize color in each scene and establish a film's visual language.

“I embrace what John and everybody else had done for Toy Story and Toy Story 2 because both films are fantastic. As I studied the earlier movies, I found that so many elements of the art direction had a lot of thinking behind them. Those visuals aren’t the result of intuitive or arbitrary choices: the artists were thinking about how to best support the story,” said art director Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi.