Comment by gwbas1c

(Cough) Abstraction and separation of concerns.

In Toy Story's case, the digital master should have had "correct" colors, and the tweaking done in the transfer to film step. It's the responsibility of the transfer process to make sure that the colors are right.

Now, counter arguments could be that the animators needed to work with awareness of how film changes things; or that animators (in the hand-painted era) always had to adjust colors slightly.

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I think the real issue is that Disney should know enough to tweak the colors of the digital releases to match what the artists intended.