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in monsters University a creature field campus slithers flies and dances to life 7 a 10-story supervisor kelsey man helped lay the groundwork for the new Pixar movie a lot of ways you know we are kind of creating a blueprint the way we do that we're basically the first ones to draw the movie or visualize the film for the first time excited to live with you and laugh of you the prequel Chronicles Mike and sulley's college years but also introduces a slew of new monsters we can never really put my consoli and a life-threatening situation for the entire film because you would know like well they make it they're going to be fine so the way that you can help that and make the film still engaging for the audience is to create other characters to that you don't know the outcome to mam says the creative process was never limited by technology people are brilliant here so if we need a character to do something crazy we've never done before they're like don't worry if that's what's right for the movie we will figure out a way to make it happen its technical Wizards like Sanjay Bakshi who make it happen we're using a proprietary animation software called presto on this film it had really improved to accommodate the number of characters that we have in all of the shots that's a departure from monsters inc which rarely had more than a few detailed characters in each scene common Crouch monsters University features about a hundred key characters and over 400 background characters the scenes were so complex the studio doubled the amount of computing power used in previous films in this film we have a bunch of furry characters and they have to wear clothing so that is even more complicated individual characters have also evolved James P Sullivan in the 12 years since the original monsters inc was released digital animation has improved by leaps and bounds and hairs in the first film Sully had 1,000,000 hairs in monsters University he has more than 5 million come on first one it was all basically the same length and now like the hair on his face has a lot of a lot different texture than the hair on his body the technical team also took advantage of technology called global illumination to generate lighting effects previously we would have to set up those secondary light sources by hand so the wall we would place a light source there and get the color of it right and the intensity of it right so it kind of felt like it was being bounced and now the computer does that work the technical achievements creating more engaging visual experience but man hopes it's the story that resonates partly I'm most proud of is that this film has has something to say and has a message they may be monsters but their story is one hundred percent human in emeryville california I'm Sumi das cnet.com for CBS News