“Graduates from the Visualization (or Viz) program have played a direct role in many popular movies such as Shrek, Toy Story, Avatar and Up, going on to work at studios like Pixar, Walt Disney Animation, Blue Sky, Sony Pictures and DreamWorks. (So many former Texas A&M Viz students worked on the Disney Pixar film Monsters, Inc., in fact, that the character Sully is named after former Texas A&M University president Lawrence Sullivan “Sully” Ross.) Pixar and DreamWorks also support the program by providing visiting artist lectures, reviews of student work and scholarship matching.”
http://www.learningace.com/doc/1281758/d9f8ee998cbc4f35a0336babf5ef7958/counselor_connection_current (P. 6 of 8).