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Andy is 12, or darn close, in Toy Story 2. As you point out, he's 8 in the first movie. And according to Wikipedia, the second one takes place four years later:

I'd say that iandotkelly actually answered this in the comments. The most likely thing that happened is that Helen had someone in the receptionist office watch Jack Jack while the principal had a serious discussion with her about Dash, since babies can be very distracting to such a talk. It's quite common for parents to bring their younger kids with them to ...

Unsurprisingly, the true details are hard to dig up, but this is nothing new. Pixar has a reputation for major shake-ups during production, see this extract from an article on hitfix.com: They have the best track record in the business for a reason. They have a carefully managed story department, and they are ruthless during development. They have had ...

As seems to be the case in all of the movies, the toys don't seem to gain sentience unless they are not being looked at or being played with by a human child. You see this with the other Buzz Lightyear toys they all believe they are Buzz. You also see this shortly after Buzz in introduced when Andy is flying him around the room you see Woody turn his head ...

Pixar’s subsequent films act like a timeline of technological developments in computer graphics. Building on the work of other researchers, 2001’s Monsters, Inc. introduced the on-screen representation of fur. Two years later, Finding Nemo pioneered new techniques in digital lighting, which were used to create realistic-looking water. The Incredibles and ...

There are automatic hair generation and physics-based animation bolt-ons available for most common commercial CGI creation/rendering packages, these have been around for a long while really. That said Pixar do tend to write their own software and will probably have done so for 'Brave'. Essentially you define the area on the head where hair is to be, you ...