During the 1980s and 1990s, toys and insects with little surface texture were used as characters in Pixar's Toy Story and A Bug's Life (1998) because:

A. limitations in computer speed and memory confined animators to smooth surfaces and simple shapes.
B. of their familiarity with very young children, who were the target audience for animated movies.
C. animal rights advocates protested the cinematic exploitation of domesticated animals.
D. of anxieties over the gradual replacement of real actors by life-like computer-generated imagery (CGI) humans.

Answer: A