Friday, 3 July 2015

What university is Monsters University modeled after?

According to this article, inspiration from the Monsters U campus draws from schools Pixar animators flew out to research on, such as Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, UC Berkeley.



From the source:




These campus visits helped the animators create a collegiate
environment that while not based on any one school, had a mix of
California and East Coast university traditions, Robert Kondo, Monster
University's Art Director for Set Design & Shading, told us.



Kondo told Business Insider that because a lot of the animators went
to art school, they traveled to these campuses to get an understanding
of a more all around university experience. More than looking at
specific buildings, though, Kondo said — as only an art school grad
could — that the team went to "absorb the feeling" of their element.




Some specific example they cite are:



  • The Troll Bridge in Monsters is an almost mirror image of the Weeks Footbridge at Harvard
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  • Parts of Monsters U have arches monsters can walk under, a callback to Stanford University's arched hallways
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  • The schoolgates to Monsters U resemble the gates to Princeton University.

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