10 Facts About Monsters Inc

1.

Monsters, Inc is a 2001 American computer-animated monster comedy film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures.

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2.

Monsters Inc feels envious because another scarer, Ned, is the company's top performer.

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3.

Monsters Inc considered it his first experience in writing a feature film.

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4.

Monsters Inc screen tested for the role and was interested, but when Pete Docter was unable to make contact with him, he took it as a "no".

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5.

Monsters Inc moved from Point Richmond to a much bigger campus in Emeryville, co-designed by Lasseter and Steve Jobs.

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6.

Monsters Inc faced a difficult challenge in dealing with Sulley's sheer mass; traditionally, animators conveyed a figure's heaviness by giving it a slower, more belabored movement, but Kahrs was concerned that such an approach to a central character would give the film a "sluggish" feel.

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The render farm in place for Monsters, Inc was made up of 3500 Sun Microsystems processors, compared with 1400 for Toy Story 2 and only 200 for Toy Story, both built on Sun's own RISC-based SPARC processor architecture.

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8.

In October 2000, a teaser trailer of Monsters, Inc was unveiled, which could not only be found online, but was attached to the home video releases of Toy Story 2.

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9.

Monsters Inc was Randy Newman's fourth feature film collaboration with Pixar.

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10.

Monsters, Inc has inspired three attractions at Disney theme parks around the world.

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