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Date: Tuesday, Jan 20, 2004 Time: 7:00 PM Location: GREAT HALL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

BY PETE DOCTER

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With Finding Nemo, the most successful movie of 2003, Pixar Studios cemented its place as the premiere animation company in the world. Not that there was much doubt. Toy Story, Toy Story II, A Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc had left little doubt about Pixar's place as the world's computer animation giant.

Pete Docter joined Pixar in 1990 after working for Disney Feature Animation and winning a Student Academy Award for his short animation film Next Door. He began by directing and animating commercials (for Tropicana Fruit Juice and Life Savers). Along with John Lasseter and Andrew Stantin, Pete developed the concept and characters for Toy Story. He also helped write and storyboard the film and became supervising animator on the project. For the sequel, Toy Story II, Pete wrote the initial story treatment. Monsters, Inc was Pete's biggest project; he created the concept and directed the entire film. He has described the movie as "Scooby Doo on steroids" but admits the storyline came from his own childhood: "I thought about things that I knew were true for me as a kid. One that my toys came to life when I wasn't in the room, and two, that there were monsters hiding in my closet waiting to scare me." Monsters, Inc, with voices by John Goodman and Billy Crystal, took nearly five years to complete. Born in Minneapolis and raised in nearby Bloomington, Minnesota, Pete Docter now lives in the Oakland area of California. He is currently developing another feature film.

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