 Totoro makes a cameo appearance in the Pixar film "Toy Story 3" (2010); the film's art director Daisuke Tsutsumi is married to Miyazaki's niece, who was the original inspiration for the character Mei in "My Neighbour Totoro".In 2013 a velvet worm species "Eoperipatus totoro", recently discovered in Vietnam, was named after Totoro