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Shrek 2 How-To

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the look-at-the-perty-picatures dept.

mblase writes "Animation World Magazine has an article online about some of the technical hurdles Dreamworks Animation had to overcome in making "Shrek 2". With November's "The Incredibles" being Pixar's first movie to feature an all-human (er, superhuman) cast of characters, it's interesting to watch how these two studios push each other to the limits of computer animation."

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  1. *whoa* Check out the ultra-wide smile on that dude by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is he artificial too?

  2. server animation? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    maybe they need to donate one of those powerful animation clusters to this website..

    slashdotted already.

  3. mirrors? by astrokid · · Score: 5, Funny

    slashdotted already, you know.. for a group of people that never RTFA we sure do a lot of damage.

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    1. Re:mirrors? by nukey56 · · Score: 4, Funny

      "Animation World Magazine has an article online

      Not anymore!

  4. Mod Parent Down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obviously employed by Pixar.

  5. just imagine by millahtime · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just imagine if for once we all decided to RTFA. Nothing could stand in our path.

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  6. In Store Display by Rupert · · Score: 3, Funny

    I walked into the local video store the other day and stopped, staring at the "life size" Shrek2 display. Every single hair on the donkey had been rendered. Fabulous detail.

    Obviously the donkey had the Frizzled6 gene, too.

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  7. Re:Interesting info... by sharkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because any decent renderer would have packed up and failed to render Jar-Jar due to a core dump in it's QoS code?

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  8. from the article by stiller · · Score: 2, Funny

    Shrek and Fiona get ready to interact with fluids in this homage to From Here to Eternity.

    Is it just me or does that have a dirty ring to it?