The message of Monsters University is, “No, despite what pretty much every other Disney or Pixar property has ever taught you, sometimes your first and most desired dream won't come true, and that doesn't mean your life will be less worthy.” Monsters University is a gentle story of dreams derailed and how someone can “ ...

the University of California at Berkeley The campus resembles that of the University of California at Berkeley, right down to the entrance gate and clock tower. UC Berkeley is the university that's closest to the Pixar headquarters. The School of Scaring Building is based on Hamerschlag Hall at Carnegie Mellon University.

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.

The music for the film was composed and conducted by Randy Newman, making it his seventh collaboration with Pixar. It is the prequel to Monsters, Inc. (2001), making it the only time Pixar has made a prequel film. Monsters University tells the story of the main characters of Monsters, Inc., James P.

director] Pete Docter and I had a nice discussion about Boo and we both agreed the relationship between Boo and Sulley is so precious and so wonderful that we want to leave it to the world to have their own interpretation of how that relationship continued, and not define it.

Jacobs notes that no one academic building inspired any particular Monsters U. facility, but that in an effort to “make the movie as realistic as possible,” the Pixar team sought to “absorb the feeling” of the real-life campuses.

Hudson University is a fictional college in or near New York City, New York. It has been mentioned as a college in several television series, though little is known about these minor mentions.

The prequel to everyone's favorite animated monster movie, “Monster's, Inc.,” uses parts of Berkeley as the basis for its setting! That's right, the campus of Monster's University has some Berkeley inspiration in it!

The campus resembles that of the University of California at Berkeley, right down to the entrance gate and clock tower. UC Berkeley is the university that's closest to the Pixar headquarters.

Mary Gibbs as Boo, a two-year-old human toddler girl who is unafraid of any monster except Randall, the scarer assigned to her door. She believes Sulley is a large cat and refers to him as "Kitty".

Mary Gibbs as Boo, a two-year-old human toddler girl who is unafraid of any monster except Randall, the scarer assigned to her door.

Waternoose, Sully accidentally scares Boo. Mr. Waternoose turns out to be in on the plot with Randall - and he takes Boo away and banishes Sully and Mike to the Himalayas in the human world. This is a great Third Plot Point.