Viz students at Texas A&M participate in industry-animation-courses. The Department of Visualization collaborates with leading animation studios to give the students a condensed “real-world” production experience. This year, students taking the Summer Industry Course (VIZA 627) worked with visiting professionals from Disney to produce four animated shorts. Each team of students had to develop a storyline around the simple concept of a toy sitting on a shelf in a child’s bedroom and then produce a thirty-second short. For sixty days students literally worked around the clock to get the job done.