Connection To PIXAR's Toy Story Character Andy Davis
Ralph Guggenheim, Producer of the 1995 animated feature Toy Story said in interviews to Animation Magazine and other publications that the Toy Story character Andy Davis was named and based on Andy Luckey, whose father Bud Luckey was a character designer and story artist on all three films. The "Davis" purportedly came from The University of California, Davis of which many of the technology personnel on the film were alumni. Andy Luckey has declined to publicly comment on the connection.
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