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:
No comments:
Post a Comment